Data Protector

AUGUST 7, 2015

Why are so many privacy professionals driven to despair? Don’t worry. It’s not that unusual for privacy professionals to be driven to despair by the demands of their job. It’s just a mindset that most of them go through when business “requirements” and legal “restrictions” continually clash. As Tom Fletcher, the UK’s former Ambassador to the Lebanon recently put it : “You think you’re reached rock bottom – then you hear a noise from below.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

AUGUST 6, 2015

It has been reported today by the Reuters news agency that the European Commission is working with the US on […].

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 7, 2015

On August 3, 2015, Neiman Marcus requested en banc review of the Seventh Circuit’s recent decision in Remijas v. Neiman Marcus Group, LLC , No. 14-3122. As we previously reported , the Seventh Circuit found that members of a putative class alleged sufficient facts to establish standing to sue Neiman Marcus following a 2013 data breach. During that breach, hackers gained access to customers’ credit and debit card information.

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Data Protector

AUGUST 3, 2015

Students of surveillance and counter terrorism have another (81 page) report to add to their summer reading list. The Henry Jackson Society has recently published " SurveillanceAfter Snowden: Effective Espionage in an Age of Transparency. " The report, written by Robin Simcox, looks at the ways the actions of Edward Snowden have impacted the US and the UK, particularly with regards to safeguarding national security.

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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.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 6, 2015

On July 28, 2015, the UK Supreme Court announced its decision to grant permission in part for Google Inc. (“Google”) to appeal the England and Wales Court of Appeal’s decision in Google Inc. v Vidal-Hall and Others. As we reported previously , the claimants in this case were users of Apple’s Safari browser who argued that during certain months in 2011 and 2012, Google collected information about their browsing habits via cookies placed on their devices without their consent and in breach of Goog

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 3, 2015

On August 29, 2015, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams (“CIPL”) will host a half-day workshop in Cebu, Philippines, on the APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules (“CBPR”) and their role in enabling legal compliance and international data transfers. The CBPR are a privacy code of conduct developed by the 21 APEC member economies for cross-border data flows in the Asia-Pacific region.

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