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Third Circuit Upholds FTC’s Authority to Regulate Companies’ Data Security Practices

Hunton Privacy

On August 24, 2015, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued its opinion in Federal Trade Commission v. Wyndham Worldwide Corporation (“Wyndham”), affirming a district court holding that the Federal Trade Commission has the authority to regulate companies’ data security practices. As we previously reported , the case stems from Wyndham’s challenge to the FTC’s authority to bring a 2012 suit against Wyndham, in which the FTC alleged that the company’s failure to maintain re

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Best value procurement recognizes vendors as experts

CGI

Best value procurement recognizes vendors as experts. narmada.devarajan. Wed, 08/26/2015 - 03:15. As the failure of large information and communications technology (ICT) projects has become a matter of public discussion in several countries, the Best Value Procurement (BVP) approach is gaining rapid ground. BVP is a common sense procurement method that focuses on finding and empowering the best experts and removing barriers to project success, such as non-expert interference and restrictive proc

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CIPL Comments on the Indonesian Draft Data Protection Regulation with New White Paper on Cross-Border Data Transfers Mechanism

Hunton Privacy

On August 20, 2015, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams (“CIPL”) filed comments to the Indonesian Draft Regulation proposed by the Minister of Communication and Information (RPM) of the Protection of Personal Data in Electronic Systems. The comments were limited to the issue of cross-border data transfers and were submitted in the form of a new CIPL white paper entitled Cross-Border Data Transfer Mechanisms.

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German DPA Fines Two Companies for the Unlawful Transfer of Customer Data as Part of an Asset Deal

Hunton Privacy

On July 30, 2015, the Bavarian Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) issued a press release stating that it imposed a significant fine on both the seller and purchaser in an asset deal for unlawfully transferring customer personal data as part of the deal. In the press release, the DPA stated that customer data often have significant economic value to businesses, particularly with respect to delivering personalized advertising.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.