While artificial intelligence has become the new big thing in medtech, privacy regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act have stayed the same. In this podcast, Medtech Insight interviews Danny Tobey to get a clearer picture of what companies need to know in order to avoid running afoul
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On 10 October 2019 the Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER) released its regulatory strategy in relation to digitalization within the energy sector, after conducting a public consultation that concluded in May 2019. Digitalization in the consumer interest forms one of three key strategic policy areas in CEER’s 3D
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On October 18, 2019, the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence, which is a task force within the House Financial Services Committee (FSC), held a hearing titled “AI and the Evolution of Cloud Computing: Evaluating How Financial Data is Stored, Protected, and Maintained by Cloud Providers.” In a memorandum published before
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By: Tony Samp and Steven R. Phillips
A proposal intended to improve the use of AI across the federal government cleared an important legislative hurdle on November 6 as the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee approved the AI in Government Act of 2019 (S 1363).
The measure, introduced
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Thought leaders from the AI industry shared ideas and predictions on the present and future of artificial intelligence at the DLA Piper European Technology Summit last month. I had the pleasure of moderating the AI panel – “Applying the laws of man or the laws of Asimov – future regulation
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As breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and related technologies continue to advance quickly, lawmakers in Congress and federal regulatory agencies are increasingly focused on enacting policies to govern these disruptive innovations.
In the first six months of the 116th Congress, more than 20 separate pieces of legislation were introduced related to
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As banks and other financial services companies adopt cloud computing for a variety of purposes, questions about the operational risks involved have emerged. In order to use the cloud, many banks are depending on cloud service providers to protect sensitive information rather than managing their own systems, with the potential
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The global demand for power rises, the requirement for increased productivity, greater efficiencies in distribution and flexibility for consumers (both corporate and residential) is also growing. As such, we have launched report on how digital technologies are impacting the Energy and Natural Resources sector. We worked with inspiratia and our
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This article is part of a series exploring the regulatory challenges of the digital society from a competition law and data protection perspective within the EU.
Vestager II
Several months have now passed since late March when the European Commission published Competition policy for the digital era (the Report), a
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Several high-profile data security incidents in the last few years have shown the need for legislative oversight in the data security and privacy space. In 2016, the US presidential election and UK referendum on EU membership were beset by data privacy issues involving Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. Data breaches were
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The mention of a blockchain‑based approach, to many, invites notions of industry technology hype – an effort to be seen as innovative even visionary. The true question, however, relates to substance, i.e. is this real progress or another fad or phase? Proof-of-concept (PoC) has finally arrived for several blockchain initiatives,
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