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The enterprise conference circus is in town

Collaboration 2.0

A very busy week for tech conferences sees much repositioning of ERP providers as customer transaction experts. But do prospects want their IT vendors giving them marketing advice?

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Justice Department Releases Guidance on Best Practices for Cyber Incident Preparedness

Hunton Privacy

Last week, the Cybersecurity Unit of the U.S. Department of Justice (the “Justice Department”) released a guidance document, entitled Best Practices for Victim Response and Reporting of Cyber Incidents (“Guidance”), discussing best practices for cyber incident response preparedness based on lessons learned by federal prosecutors while handling cyber investigations and prosecutions.

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Health policy challenges to achieving big data outcomes, part I

CGI

Produire des résultats à partir des données massives : politiques de santé et défis liés à la mise en œuvre – 1re partie. shobana.lv@cgi.com. Tue, 05/05/2015 - 05:30. Utiliser pleinement le potentiel d’une nouvelle technologie requiert beaucoup de temps et il est parfois nécessaire de changer les politiques ainsi que les façons d’utiliser la technologie.

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Can I Be Sued for a HIPAA Violation?

HIPAA

I am asked that question almost weekly. While the answer has traditionally been “no,” the legal landscape is shifting and the risk of being sued continues to increase. Let’s first start with some background. As some of you may know, HIPAA does not include a “private right of action.” This means that an individual may not file a claim against a covered entity or a business associate in order to enforce HIPAA or seek damages in response to a HIPAA violation.

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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.

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The enterprise conference circus is in town!

Collaboration 2.0

A very busy week for tech conferences sees much repositioning of ERP providers as customer transaction experts, but do their prospects want their IT vendors giving them marketing advice?

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Driver’s Licence Information and Test Drives: Guidance from the Alberta Office of the Information Privacy Commissioner

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

What personal information is reasonable for a motor vehicle dealer to collect from individuals participating in test drives? It has been […].

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Can I Be Sued for a HIPAA Violation?

HIPAA

I am asked that question almost weekly. While the answer has traditionally been “no,” the legal landscape is shifting and the risk of being sued continues to increase. Let’s first start with some background. As some of you may know, HIPAA does not include a “private right of action.” This means that an individual may not file a claim against a covered entity or a business associate in order to enforce HIPAA or seek damages in response to a HIPAA violation.

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IG: The Whole Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts

Positively RIM

The following article appears -- in slightly different form -- as the lead contribution to a larger work on Information Governance published online by the International Legal Technology Association. Find it at [link] Written with assistance from Ronke' Ekwensi The whole is more than the sum of its parts: That’s Information Governance. Like a jigsaw puzzle, the pieces are fragmentary, but they combine to create a whole, and sometimes beautiful, picture.

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Florida Passes Drone Surveillance Bill Requiring Individual Consent

Hunton Privacy

On April 28, 2015, the Florida House of Representatives passed a bill ( SB 766 ) that prohibits businesses and government agencies from using drones to conduct surveillance by capturing images of private real property or individuals on such property without valid written consent under circumstances where a reasonable expectation of privacy exists. The bill expands Florida’s Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act to prohibit the “use [of] a drone equipped with an imaging device to record an im

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.

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Centre for Information Policy Leadership Comments on Brazil’s Draft Privacy Law

Hunton Privacy

On May 5, 2015, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams (“CIPL”) filed comments in English and Portuguese on Brazil’s draft law “on the processing of personal data to protect the personality and dignity of natural persons” (the “Draft Law”). CIPL’s comments on the Draft Law focus on several key issues that are particularly important in the context of global privacy policy and practice, including alternatives to consent to legitimize data processing, the use of organ

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Second Circuit Rules that NSA Phone Data Collection Not Authorized by PATRIOT Act

Hunton Privacy

On May 7, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit sided with the American Civil Liberties Union, holding that the National Security Agency’s (“NSA’s”) collection of metadata relating to domestic phone records is not permitted under the PATRIOT Act. This ruling overturns a December 2013 Southern District of New York decision finding that the NSA’s telephone data collection program is lawful under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act.

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Can I Be Sued for a HIPAA Violation?

HIPAA

I am asked that question almost weekly. While the answer has traditionally been “no,” the legal landscape is shifting and the risk of being sued continues to increase. Let’s first start with some background. As some of you may know, HIPAA does not include a “private right of action.” This means that an individual may not file a claim against a covered entity or a business associate in order to enforce HIPAA or seek damages in response to a HIPAA violation.