Daniel Felz

2 months ago | jdsupra.com | Alysa Austin |Daniel Felz |Katherine Doty Hanniford

In the final week of the Biden Administration’s term in office, former President Biden issued two high profile executive orders that could have significant ramifications for the cybersecurity and technology industries. The first, issued on January 14, 2025, is an “Executive Order on Advancing United States Leadership in Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure” (the “AI Infrastructure Order”).

Oct 29, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Kellen S. Dwyer |Daniel Felz |Katherine Doty Hanniford

On October 24, 2024, President Biden signed the first-ever National Security Memorandum (“NSM”) focused on artificial intelligence (“AI”), pursuant to subsection 4.8 of Executive Order 14110. The NSM provides guidance on developing, employing, and strengthening AI usage within the federal government. The NSM outlines three main objectives which serve as guideposts in directing the U.S. Government in “appropriately harnessing AI models and AI-enabled technologies . .

Sep 3, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Jennifer Everett |Daniel Felz |Dorian Simmons

On August 27, 2024, the California state legislature passed Assembly Bill 2013 and sent it to Governor Gavin Newsom for signature. If passed, AB 2013 would require companies that make generative AI systems and services publicly available to Californians to post documentation on their website about the data used to train such AI systems and services. This documentation would need to be posted by January 1, 2026. This blog post briefly summarizes AB 2013 and its potential implications for companies.

Aug 7, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Daniel Felz |Kimberly Peretti

On June 13, 2024, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) collaborated with the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) to hold the federal government’s first tabletop exercise for “AI security incidents. JCDC led the exercise and, true to JCDC’s public-private partnership model, included over 50 participants from various government agencies and private-sector companies.

Jun 13, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Daniel Felz |Dorian Simmons

For years, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) has required financial institutions to maintain reasonable safeguards for consumer data, but has only had limited breach-reporting requirements. To the extent financial institutions were subject to breach-reporting obligations, these were set by non-GLBA legislation, such as state law, or by relatively narrow incident-reporting rules under Interagency Guidelines overseen by banking regulators.