The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was a big first step toward giving consumers control of their data. As powerful as this privacy initiative is, a new personal data challenge has emerged. Now, privacy concerns are focused on what companies are doing with…
A recently presented European Union plan to update long-standing product liability rules for the digital age — including addressing rising use of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation — took some instant flak from European consumer organization, BEUC, which framed the update as something of a…
The European Union’s handling of its key crypto legislative packages highlighted an “inadequacy and lack of expertise” that should not be repeated when forming rules for the metaverse, according to researchers commissioned by the French government. While the country should not be…
Six years ago, in March 2016, Microsoft Corporation launched an experimental AI-based chatbot, TayTweets, whose Twitter handle was @TayandYou. Tay, an acronym for “thinking about you,” mimicked a 19-year-old American girl online, so the digital giant could showcase the speed at which AI…
About four years ago, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was appointed to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence by the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. It was a powerful perch. Congress tasked the new group with a broad mandate:…
Trust is everything, so they say. The noted philosopher Lao Tzu said that those who do not trust enough will not be trusted. Ernest Hemingway, an esteemed novelist, stated that the best way to find out if you can trust somebody is…
Since summer 2022, Europe, the U.S., and the U.K. have delivered new policy and regulatory proposals concerning AI spanning AI and liability, principles and practices to shape AI development and deployment, and a prospective approach to AI regulation, respectively. This blog talks about the European…
A concerted effort is being made to control the cryptocurrency market by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and other U.S. market regulators. But a significant unanswered query that is essential to their objectives is: Bitcoin: A security or not? The word…
From pandemic to global conflict, misinformation to inflation, climate change to culture wars – the world is facing a period of broad structural uncertainty. Amidst these less certain, more complex dynamics, efficiency, clear accountability and effective collaboration in our regulatory systems have…
Way back in May 2014, the European court of justice issued a landmark ruling that European citizens had the right to petition search engines to remove search results that linked to material that had been posted lawfully on third-party websites. This was popularly but…
