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California Determined to Take Lead on AI Regulation: A Glance at The State’s Proposed Artificial Intelligence Rules
California wants to rein in artificial intelligence – and that means employers and businesses need to step up and pay attention. State lawmakers are considering more than 30 AI-related bills across a wide range of topics while the state’s privacy agency is considering ambitious regulations targeting AI’s impact on California consumers. If passed, some rules…
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Weekly Blockchain Blog – March 2024 #3
Financial Firms Complete Blockchain Pilot, UK Approves Crypto ETNs – A recent press release announced completion of the Canton Network pilot, “a first-of-its-kind program demonstrating the interoperability of twenty-two independent distributed ledger applications (dApps) in the capital markets domain.”…By: BakerHostetler
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AI Litigation Insights: zvelo, Inc. v Netskope, Inc.
Plaintiff zvelo is a Colorado-based organization that has developed a database of category-based website URLs that is incorporated into various network security and web filtering vendor offerings….By: Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP
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Saint Louis University Announces Data Breach Affecting the Personal Information of 93k People
On March 15, 2024, Saint Louis University (“SLU”) filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of Maine after discovering that an unauthorized party was able to access certain SLU email accounts. In this notice, SLU explains that the incident resulted in an unauthorized party being able to access students’ sensitive information, which…
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Rancho Family Medical Group Notifies Patients of KMJ Health Solutions Data Breach
On March 11, 2024, Rancho Family Medical Group (“Rancho Family Medical “) filed a notice with the Attorney General of California describing a third-party data breach at KMJ Health Solutions (“KMJ”), one of the company’s technology vendors. In this notice, Rancho Family Medical explains that the incident resulted in an unauthorized party being able to…
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Israel Raids Al-Shifa Hospital Again; Netanyahu to Send Team for Talks in D.C.
The warning came amid an Israeli raid on Al-Shifa Hospital. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also agreed to send military and humanitarian officials to Washington to hear the Biden administration’s concerns.
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Putin Urges Russians to Unite on Ukraine War
A day after a rubber-stamp presidential election, President Vladimir Putin said he would not back down in Russia’s war against Ukraine.
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Gambia Votes to Overturn Landmark Ban on Female Genital Cutting
Lawmakers in the West African country voted to advance a bill repealing a 2015 ban. If it passes the final round of voting, Gambia will become the first nation to roll back protections against the practice.
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Pakistani Airstrikes in Afghanistan Kill at Least 8, Taliban Officials Say
The pre-dawn strikes escalated tensions between two countries that have clashed over the recent rise in militant violence on Pakistan’s soil.
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One Collector’s High Mountain Road to Hokusai
A professor’s 30-year dream of assembling a complete set of “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji,” the pinnacle of the artist’s career, leads to an auction.