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Jul 19, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Anna Blest |Kate Brimsted |Jennifer Csik Hutchens
The stakes are high for FemTech – as Benjamin Franklin noted: ‘it takes many good deeds to build a good reputation and only one bad one to lose it.’ As technology continues to outpace regulation in this sector, there is a pressing need for improved practices and standards.
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May 17, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Kate Brimsted |Jennifer Csik Hutchens |Blair Johnson
Security, scale or functionality – pick two. This computer science principle coined by the late Professor Anderson is particularly relevant to the FemTech industry. Anderson’s Rule states that for a system to provide high functionality and security, its access may need to be limited (small scale); alternatively, offering high functionality on a larger scale, may require an acceptance of risk, e.g. of inadvertent or deliberate disclosure of information.
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May 16, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Kate Brimsted |Jennifer Csik Hutchens |Blair Johnson |Seth Pearson
SummarySecurity, scale or functionality – pick two. This computer science principle coined by the late Professor Anderson is particularly relevant to the FemTech industry. Anderson’s Rule states that for a system to provide high functionality and security, its access may need to be limited (small scale); alternatively, offering high functionality on a larger scale, may require an acceptance of risk, e.g. of inadvertent or deliberate disclosure of information.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Anna Blest |Kate Brimsted
In part one of our series "FemTech: how this growing industry can build trust, protect privacy and redress healthcare inequity… one app at a time",we take an introductory look at the industry, and offer some commercially-minded approaches to address users’ privacy needs. What is FemTech? Relatively speaking, female biology is complicated.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
peoplemanagement.co.uk | Kate Brimsted
Recent years have seen more widespread deployment of monitoring technology in the workplace, especially during the Covid pandemic. The swift rise in artificial intelligence is also increasing the power and the risks posed by such tools. In the UK, the data protection regulator – the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) – recently updated its guidance on monitoring workers to address such technological developments.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Anna Blest |Kate Brimsted
Clearview AI Inc's successful challenge to the ICO’s £7.5 million fine focused on the limits of the UK GDPR’s jurisdictional reach, succeeding on the grounds that Clearview’s processing activities were outside the scope of the UK GDPR. At the time of writing, we await confirmation of whether the ICO will be allowed to appeal. In the meantime, the decisions have provided some interesting clarifications around the application of data protection law to publicly accessible images.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Kate Brimsted |Anna Blest
SUMMARYClearview AI Inc's successful challenge to the ICO’s £7.5 million fine focused on the limits of the UK GDPR’s jurisdictional reach, succeeding on the grounds that Clearview’s processing activities were outside the scope of the UK GDPR. At the time of writing, we await confirmation of whether the ICO will be allowed to appeal. In the meantime, the decisions have provided some interesting clarifications around the application of data protection law to publicly accessible images.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | Kate Brimsted
Political agreement was reached on 9 December in the negotiations on the EU AI Act, arguably the world’s most comprehensive and ambitious AI law to date. Some further steps must take place, including confirmation by the EU Parliament and Council, before the text is adopted and becomes law, but this ambitious legislation is expected to apply throughout the 27 member states of the EU.
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
financialreporter.co.uk | Kate Brimsted
On 1st August the New Consumer duty came into force, imposing higher standards on regulated financial services firms and requiring them to deliver good outcomes for retail customers. For example, under the Consumer Duty, firms should use their communications to support good retail customer outcomes.
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May 26, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | Kate Brimsted |Jack Dunn
SUMMARYHow should artificial intelligence (“AI”) be governed? This conundrum is rightly receiving considerable attention from governments, businesses and civil society. Should controls be principles-based, as proposed in the UK’s AI White Paper? Or would it be better to implement granular regulation, prohibiting some applications and requiring high-risk systems to undergo prior certification, like the EU’s draft AI Act?
