Marty Hansen

Firm/Organization: Covington & Burling LLP

Blogs: Covington Digital Health, Global Policy Watch, Inside Tech Media

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AI Update: European Commission Presents Strategies for Data and AI (Part 1 of 4)

By Lisa Peets, Marty Hansen, Sam Jungyun Choi, Nicholas Shepherd & Anna Oberschelp de Meneses

February 20, 2020

On 19 February 2020, the European Commission presented its long-awaited strategies for data and AI. These follow Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s commitment upon taking office to put forward legislative proposals for a “coordinated European approach to the human and ethical implications of AI” within the new Commission’s first 100 days. Although the papers published this week do not set out a comprehensive EU legal framework for AI, they do give a clear indication…

Covington Digital Health

European Commission Presents Strategies for Data and AI (Part 1 of 4)

By Lisa Peets, Marty Hansen, Sam Jungyun Choi, Nicholas Shepherd & Anna Oberschelp de Meneses

February 20, 2020

Inside Privacy

European Commission Presents Strategies for Data and AI (Part 1 of 4)

By Lisa Peets, Marty Hansen, Sam Jungyun Choi, Nicholas Shepherd & Anna Oberschelp de Meneses

February 20, 2020

Inside Tech Media

Germany Likely to Adopt Unique Regulatory Regime for Intermediaries to Media Services

By Marty Hansen & Ulrike Elteste

February 13, 2020

The German Federal States are likely to adopt a new law in 2020, known as the Interstate Media Treaty (Medienstaatsvertrag – “MStV”). The MStV will impose new regulations on firms or technologies that serve as intermediaries to online media services. It will also introduce new rules in other areas, e.g., for online content providers and advertising, but the rules for intermediaries are likely to generate the most interest. After intense debate and two public consultations,…

Inside Privacy

European Parliament Committee Approves Resolution on AI for Consumers

By Lisa Peets, Marty Hansen & Sam Jungyun Choi

January 27, 2020

On January 23, 2020, the European Parliament’s Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee approved a resolution on artificial intelligence (“AI”) and automated decision-making (“ADM”). The resolution references several major pieces of work carried out by the European Commission on AI and provides a list of existing EU instruments that are relevant to AI and ADM — which together present a potential roadmap of areas of reform. The resolution was approved in committee by 39 votes…

Inside Tech Media

AI Update: European Parliament Committee Approves Resolution on AI for Consumers

By Lisa Peets, Marty Hansen & Sam Jungyun Choi

January 27, 2020

Inside Privacy

Commission Expert Group Report on Liability for Emerging Digital Technologies

By Lisa Peets, Marty Hansen & Paul Maynard

December 1, 2019

On November 21, 2019, the European Commission’s Expert Group on Liability and New Technologies – New Technologies Formation (“NTF”) published its Report on Liability for Artificial Intelligence and other emerging technologies. The Commission tasked the NTF with establishing the extent to which liability frameworks in the EU will continue to operate effectively in relation to emerging digital technologies (including artificial intelligence, the internet of things, and distributed ledger technologies). This report presents the NTF’s…

Global Policy Watch

U.S. and U.K. Sign CLOUD Act Agreement

By Trisha Anderson, Alexander Berengaut, Jim Garland, Marty Hansen & Lisa Peets

October 17, 2019

On October 3, 2019, the United States and United Kingdom signed an agreement on cross-border law enforcement demands for data from service providers (“Agreement”). The Agreement is the first bilateral agreement to be entered under the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act. It obligates each Party to remove barriers in their domestic laws so that U.S. and U.K. national security and law enforcement agencies may obtain certain electronic data directly from Communications…

Inside Privacy

U.S. and U.K. Sign CLOUD Act Agreement

By Trisha Anderson, Alexander Berengaut, Jim Garland, Marty Hansen & Lisa Peets

October 11, 2019

Inside Tech Media

European Parliamentary Research Service issues a briefing paper on implementing EU’s ethical guidelines on AI

By Marty Hansen, Sam Jungyun Choi, Gemma Nash & Laura Richardson

September 30, 2019

On 19 September 2019, the European Parliamentary Research Service (“EPRS”)—the European Parliament’s in-house research service—released a briefing paper that summarizes the current status of the EU’s approach to developing a regulatory framework for ethical AI. Although not a policymaking body, the EPRS can provide useful insights into the direction of EU policy on an issue. The paper summarises recent calls in the EU for adopting legally binding instruments to regulate AI, in particular to set…

Marty Hansen

AI Update: European Commission Presents Strategies for Data and AI (Part 1 of 4)

European Commission Presents Strategies for Data and AI (Part 1 of 4)

European Commission Presents Strategies for Data and AI (Part 1 of 4)

Germany Likely to Adopt Unique Regulatory Regime for Intermediaries to Media Services

European Parliament Committee Approves Resolution on AI for Consumers

AI Update: European Parliament Committee Approves Resolution on AI for Consumers

Commission Expert Group Report on Liability for Emerging Digital Technologies

U.S. and U.K. Sign CLOUD Act Agreement

U.S. and U.K. Sign CLOUD Act Agreement

European Parliamentary Research Service issues a briefing paper on implementing EU’s ethical guidelines on AI

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