Employers Beware – New Life for an Old Statute: Cook County Class Action...
This year, the Cook County docket has seen an influx of class action claims seeking redress under an older Illinois privacy statute, the Genetic Information Privacy Act (GIPA), no doubt due to the...
View ArticleStart Your Website Spring Cleaning – This Fall
Many businesses think their websites, like a spacecraft following Newton’s laws of motion, should just keep going once established. What may be reasonable in deep space is not particularly safe in the...
View ArticleSEC Enforcement Against SolarWinds and Its CISO: Time to Freak Out?
The SEC has been on a cybersecurity tear in 2023, instituting new rules on disclosures of cybersecurity events and threat assessments. But not wanting to let go of the past, it brought suit on October...
View ArticleSecurity State of Mind: Amendments to NYDFS’s Cybersecurity Regulation Go Live
The Big Apple now demands big commitments from financial institutions regarding cybersecurity practices. Yesterday, the New York State Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) adopted its second set...
View ArticleBiden’s Executive Order and Its Possible Effects on Companies Developing and...
On October 30, 2023, President Biden signed an Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (the “Order”). The Order is the most comprehensive...
View ArticleALPHV/Blackcat Ransomware Group Announces New Rule: No Rules…Anything, Anywhere
The Department of Justice recently announced a “disruption campaign” against the Blackcat ransomware group (aka ALPHV or Noberus), including seizing the group’s darknet website and releasing a...
View ArticleWill the New York Times Take Down Large Language Models?
That whistling sound you hear may not be an old-school newspaper walking past a graveyard—it may well be an AI industry-killing asteroid. On December 27, 2023, the New York Times filed a groundbreaking...
View ArticleFederal Privacy Legislation Is Inching Toward the Finish Line With the...
The American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA), proposed in 2022, is no more. The relay race of proposed federal privacy legislation has now entered its final leg with the American Privacy Rights...
View ArticleColorado’s Artificial Intelligence Act (CAIA) – The First U.S. State Law...
Colorado just became the first U.S. state to pass a law (Senate Bill 24-205 “SB 24-205” or the “CAIA”) regulating consumer harms arising out of artificial intelligence (“AI”). While the CAIA will not...
View ArticleUnderstanding Trends in AI Legislation
In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was punished by Hades for cheating death (twice) by forcing him to roll an immense boulder up a hill only for it to roll back down every time it neared the top. AI...
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