News

The European Union Court of Justice invalidated a provision of the EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive that guaranteed access to information on the “real owners” of a company. Some commentators criticized the decision as setting back efforts to fight corruption.

The San Francisco Police Department proposed expanding use of robots capable of using deadly force to respond to incidents. Currently, the remote controlled devices are used for bomb disposal and inspection.

Searches on Twitter for information about the Chinese protests related to the government’s COVID-19 restrictions are returning spam and pornographic content. Disinformation researchers posit that Chinese state actors are publishing this content to prevent access to images of the demonstrations

The Israeli Government issued a draft regulation that would address privacy obligations under GDPR. The proposal includes strong regulatory measures for data originated in Europe.

The City of Houston mandated that certain local businesses constantly record video surveillance outside of their establishments. Houston is the first city to pass such an ordinance. The move drew the criticism of civil rights advocates.

Members of an Iranian hacktivist group breached a system owned by a major Israeli security agency and posted videos from a recent deadly bombing in Jerusalem. It is currently unknown what assets were breached.

Events

The Computer Science and Law Monthly workshop is collecting job profiles for junior job market candidates. The job market profiles will be distributed in the CS+Law Monthly Workshop website and mailing list. Submissions are due December 5th.

On December 12 and 13, there will be a hybrid conference on Commodification and the Law in Florence, Italy. The conference will feature keynote speeches by Prof. Daniel Markovits (Yale School of Law) and by Dr. Johanna Stark (Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance).

On December 1 and 2, the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Aula Magna in Pisa, Italy hosted a hybrid conference on the regulation of AI and data in Europe. The conference featured several panels discussing AI and Data regulation strategy in the European Union.

(Compiled by Student Fellow Aditya Trivedi)