Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
News A class action lawsuit was filed against Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI alleging large-scale copyright violations in the companies’ GitHub Copilot AI-powered coding assistant. Australia’s Labor Party introduced a privacy bill including significantly increased…
News FTC brought an action agaisnt Chegg, the education technology provider. Responding to their allegedly lax data security practices, the FTC proposed requiring the company to bolster its data security…
News Uber is rolling out a new advertising branch, which will show riders live ads during their ride using data that Uber collects from their phones. A father and son…
Events On November 2nd, NYU’s Law will be hosting a panel called “FemTech and Privacy: Striking the Balance in a Post-Dobbs Reality.” The event will take place in the Greenberg…
On September 28, the EU Commission published a Proposal for an Artificial Intelligence Liability Directive (AILD, or AI Liability Directive). The purpose of the Directive is to “improve the functioning…
Yesterday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released its Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, which aims to embed protections throughout the AI design pipeline. The…
Yesterday, the European Commission introduced a proposal for a new AI liability standard. This proposal consolidates the fragmented liability standards in effect in EU member countries. It has specific provisions…
Yesterday, after more than a year of deliberation, Indonesia passed a sweeping data privacy law. Following a string of data breaches and leaks at government organizations, lawmakers greatly welcomed the…
Google must face most of Texas AG’s antitrust lawsuit, which alleges, among other things, that the company illegally monopolized the advertising technology market. Google won its motion to dismiss an…
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held this week that web scraping of publicly accessible data is legal. The case initially arose when LinkedIn sued a company, Hiq Labs, for scraping data…