On October 30, 2023, President Biden signed an Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (the “Order”). The Order is the most comprehensive federal policy on AI to date and covers a wide
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Security State of Mind: Amendments to NYDFS’s Cybersecurity Regulation Go Live
The Big Apple now demands big commitments from financial institutions regarding cybersecurity practices. Yesterday, the New York State Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) adopted its second set of amendments to its 2015 “Cybersecurity Requirements For Financial Services Companies” (“Amended Cybersecurity…
SEC Enforcement Against SolarWinds and Its CISO: Time to Freak Out?
The SEC has been on a cybersecurity tear in 2023, instituting new rules on disclosures of cybersecurity events and threat assessments. But not wanting to let go of the past, it brought suit on October 30 in the Southern District…
The Rules on Who’s a Joint Employer Have Dramatically Changed
Over the past decade or so, there’s been much effort by the government to expand the scope of who may be deemed a joint employer. Those efforts have been to make contractors and their subcontractors, franchisors and their franchisees, and…
Start Your Website Spring Cleaning – This Fall
Many businesses think their websites, like a spacecraft following Newton’s laws of motion, should just keep going once established. What may be reasonable in deep space is not particularly safe in the galaxy of data privacy, which is choked with…
Updates on Michigan Psychedelic News
It’s been an active few weeks in Michigan on the psychedelics front, with activity on both the legalization and law enforcement sides of the issue. Here’s a quick recap of two important bits of psychedelic news.…
A Lively Supreme Court Argument on the Constitutionality of CFPB Funding: Ruling Not Expected for Several Months
On October 3, the second morning of its new term, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) heard oral arguments in the case of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited. This case is…
Employers Beware – New Life for an Old Statute: Cook County Class Action Litigation Under the Genetic Information Privacy Act
This year, the Cook County docket has seen an influx of class action claims seeking redress under an older Illinois privacy statute, the Genetic Information Privacy Act (GIPA), no doubt due to the statute’s extreme statutory damage provisions. GIPA, enacted…
An Overview of AI
In a very short time, AI has evolved from an abstract idea to a practical tool. This demands legal thinking that can account for its use. AI as a concept began in the 1950s when well-known mathematician and scientist Alan…
Finally, Federal Cannabis Banking Reform?!?!
As readers of this blog and the cannabis industry are aware, the conflict between state and federal law on the issue of cannabis is a constant source of tension, struggle, and frustration for the cannabis industry, their employees, and those…