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The California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”) has been active since the start of the year. In this blog post we summarize some key activities of the CPPA to date in 2024, including:
On 25 March 2024, the Cabinet Office published Procurement Policy Note (PPN) 02/24: Improving Transparency of AI use in Procurement. This PPN provides guidance on the use by bidders of Artificial Intelligence in public procurements and in the delivery of government services. In particular, it highlights the need for greater transparency from bidders regarding
For the first time in history, the Czech courts have directly dealt with the issue of copyright protection for content created with the help of generative AI.
In the case, the plaintiff generated an image using the program DALL-E. The prompt was to “Create a visual representation of two parties signing a business contract in
AI is increasingly at the forefront for the insurance sector, as methods to tackle fraud, manage claims and improve customer service are developed. In terms of how these developments are addressed in the contracts that underpin such arrangements there are significant issues to bear in mind.
Contracts involving AI still take the form of a
Explainability (and its sibling, interpretability) is arguably the most important new legal concept developed in response to the creation of highly complex artificial intelligence models trained on massive amounts of data and computer power.
Explainability serves as a cornerstone of AI regulation. It matters because users have a higher level of trust and greater perception
On March 7, 2024, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco delivered keynote remarks at the American Bar Association’s 2024 National Institute on White Collar Crime, reiterating the key priorities set by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) at the beginning of the Biden administration.
In line with these priorities, Monaco announced two major new initiatives: (1)
After years of intense negotiation, EU stakeholders have finally reached political agreement on the long-awaited EU Artificial Intelligence Act (“EU AI Act”), which was first published by the European Commission (“EC”) on 21 April 2021. Following the final trilogues, the Council of the EU released the text of the final provisional agreement on 26 January
The sci-fi fascination with AI is well established, long in the tooth and a lazy way of looking at the opportunities (and moreover the threats) presented by AI. But perhaps these once-fantastical ideas are rapidly becoming technological reality. That legislators, including the UK’s House of Lords, are looking seriously at the implications of such technologies
On February 28, 2024, President Joe Biden issued an Executive Order titled “Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and US Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern” (EO). This order seeks to restrict the sale of sensitive American data to China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba (Countries of Concern) to prevent those