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Jan 13, 2025 | 
law.com | Peter Brown
“In the era of deep fakes, seeing is no longer believing.” Fareed Zakaria, Journalist and Political Commentator Last year a finance worker at a Hong Kong multinational firm was tricked into transferring $25 million to fraudsters after conducting a video conference with whom he thought was the firm’s CFO and several other senior officers. None of the participants in the video conference were real.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
law.com | Peter Brown
Peter Brown, principal with Peter Brown & Associates. Photo: Rick Kopstein/ALM News The author writes "Artificial intelligence (AI) has been identified as a potentially transformative technology which will impact broad sectors of society. Over the past decade there has been an increasing adoption of AI in business and science. The release of ChatGPT, and related emulators, has introduced AI’s potential to millions of mainstream users.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
law.com | Peter Brown
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
law.com | Peter Brown
“Back in the day, BlueChecks used to mean trustworthy sources of information. Now with X, our preliminary view is that they deceive users and infringe the DSA. We also consider that X’s ads repository and conditions for data access by researchers are not in line with the DSA transparency requirements. X has now the right of defence — but if our view is confirmed we will impose fines and require significant changes.”—Thierry Breton, Commissioner for Internal Market Want to continue reading?
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
law.com | Peter Brown
The 2020 presidential election and COVID-19 pandemic exposed the enormous power of social media platforms to shape public opinion. While many people see social media only as a means of maintaining personal connections or entertainment, other users receive daily news, political opinion and medical advice from individual posts and videos on sites like Facebook and YouTube. In a nation divided by strong worldviews, this diversity of opinion is exposed in social media.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
law.com | Peter Brown
In the past few years, we have witnessed the astonishing pace of development of artificial intelligence applications. As a result, the fast development of AI has also raised privacy concerns about how AI companies handle usage content. (i.e., your conversation with the AI Chatbot). Unlike the European Union, which has a relatively comprehensive data privacy law in the GDPR, federal law only regulates data privacy in specific categories.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
law.com | Peter Brown
Most people know that when interacting with a vendor on the Internet to purchase goods or use a service, the same vendor is harvesting personal data to use in further marketing to the same individual. A simple Google search of local real estate may lead to a flood of solicitations from real estate brokers. While this is a common experience in the United States, members of the European Union (EU) view such activities as an uninvited invasion of their citizen’s privacy.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
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For generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) models, which with a simple prompt, are capable of creating new text, images and audio, 2023 proved to be a seismic year. While the GenAI revolution has captured the collective imagination, this technology also poses threats to fundamental rights such as privacy, freedom from discrimination, and health and safety. GenAI has also given rise to the phenomenon of “deep synthesis” or “deepfake” content used to disseminate fake news and perpetrate fraud.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
law.com | Peter Brown
“The EU AI Act is a global first…[It is] a unique legal framework for the development of AI you can trust. And for the safety and fundamental rights of people and businesses” —Ursula von der Leyen, President European Commission Want to continue reading?
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
law.com | Peter Brown
It is an open secret that children aged 13 and under can log in to Instagram, Facebook and other social media simply by lying about their age or pretending to be an adult. Yet social media contains vast quantities of content that is inappropriate for very young users. These users may also be exposed to dangerous predators. While the potential psychological harm caused by social media to children is well known, the owners of these websites, including Meta Platforms Inc.
