Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 11, 2013

Recently, the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (“LIBE”) released a study titled Fighting cyber crime and protecting privacy in the cloud (the “Study”). The Study originally was prepared in October 2012 at the request of the LIBE Committee by the European Parliament’s Policy Department of Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs, with the help of the Centre for European Policy Studies and the Centre d’Etudes sur les Conflits.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

JANUARY 8, 2013

Draft Regulations recognize CASL should not apply to “regular business communications” Industry Canada has published long-awaited draft Regulations that would lessen the impact […].

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Robert's Db2

JANUARY 9, 2013

I heard the other day from a DB2 for z/OS DBA who communicated to me an interesting story. His organization had recently gotten into development and deployment of native SQL procedures on the mainframe DB2 platform. The native SQL procedures were working as advertised, but the move to utilize this DB2 technology had engendered grumbling on the part of some of the organizations' application programmers.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 7, 2013

The post Predictions 2013 appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Mssr. Nostradamus. One week into the new year, it’s again time for me take a crack at predicting what might come of this next spin around the sun, at least as it relates to the Internet ecosystem. Last year’s predictions came out pretty well , all things considered, but I took an unusual tack – I wrote long posts on each of the first six, and then shot from the hip for the last one.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2013

As reported in BNA’s Privacy & Security Law Report , on December 14, 2012, a federal district court in California ruled that a retail store’s policy of collecting personal information only after providing customers with receipts does not violate the Song-Beverly Credit Card Act (“Song-Beverly”). Under Section 1747.08(a)(2) of Song-Beverly, a retailer that accepts credit cards for the transaction of business may not “[r]equest, or require as a condition to accepting the credit card as payment

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 7, 2013

Reporting from Washington, D.C., Hunton & Williams associate Andrew Walsh writes: Data embedded in photos can make a picture worth far more than a thousand words. To provide an example rich in irony, a well-known figure in Internet security who was wanted for police questioning recently inadvertently pinpointed his location for the authorities with an online posting of a photo containing Exchangeable Image File (“EXIF”) data.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 10, 2013

On January 10, 2013, the rapporteur to the EU Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (“LIBE”), Jan Philipp Albrecht, presented his draft report (the “Report”) on the proposed amendments to the European Commission’s proposed General Data Protection Regulation (the “Proposed Regulation”) to the LIBE Committee. The Report includes detailed changes proposed by various stakeholders which Rapporteur Albrecht consolidated and distilled into a single text.

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