Topic
Data Mining
52 published works
Health Law Rx
AI-Assisted Data Mining and the False Claims Act: Is a Data Anomaly Really a False Claim?
By Noam Fischman, Ameer Al-Khudari
Data miner whistleblowers, increasingly armed with artificial intelligence (AI) tools, are already reshaping how False Claims Act (FCA) theories are built, generated, and litigated. The Department of Justice's (DOJ) April…
Whistleblower Law Collaborative Blog and News
DOJ’s FOCUS Initiative Seeks Data Miners
The Department of Justice recently announced the creation of the Fraud Oversight through Careful Use of Statistics or FOCUS Initiative (“FOCUS”). According to DOJ’s Press Release, since 2024, data miners have…
Verfassungsblog
Wegducken vor den Fragen des digitalen Zeitalters
Algorithmische Datenanalysen sollen beim Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) und bei der Bundespolizei Einzug halten. Mit Gesetzentwürfen zu neuen digitalen Ermittlungsbefugnissen will die Bundesregierung künftig auch den Polizeibehörden des Bundes ermöglichen, was mehrere…
ContractsProf Blog
Anthropic’s Contracts Dispute with the Pentagon
Anthropic is the company behind Claude, the only artificial intelligence tool currently operating on classified military systems. As Julian E. Barnes and Sheera Frenkel reported in The New York Times last week, the…
Technology's Legal Edge
Robert Kneschke v. LAION: Judgment of 10 December 2025 (Ref.: 5 U 104/24)
By Ekaterina Filikhina, Lennart Elsaß
The Higher Regional Court of Hamburg has issued a ruling that contains important guidelines for the admissibility of AI training and data mining. In its ruling dated 10 December 2025,…
Global Policy Watch
European Commission Launches Consultations on the EU AI Act’s Copyright Provisions and AI Regulatory Sandboxes
By Marianna Drake, Fredericka Argent, Lisa Peets
The European Commission (“Commission”) recently launched two stakeholder consultations under the EU AI Act. The first (see here), closing on 9 January 2026, relates to the copyright-related obligations for General…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Can ICE use personal information from other agencies to enforce immigration laws?
Nolan Rappaport for The Hill ("Can ICE use personal information from other agencies to enforce immigration laws?") looks at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's data mining information from other agencies to…
Cleary IP and Technology Insights
GenAI Inputs: Understanding Training Data and Rights Reservations
By Gareth Kristensen, Jan-Frederik Keustermans, Alix Anciaux, Nicola Duemler
This is the second part of our four-part series on the EUIPO study on GenAI and copyright. Read parts 1, 3, and 4. In this second part of our four-part…
Internet Newsletter for Lawyers
What’s New? March 2025
AI action plan In January the government published the independently written AI Opportunities Action Plan and pledged to take forward all 50 of its recommendations. Key points include the following…
SALT Shaker
D.C. Tax Revision Commission considers digital advertising tax and data mining tax
By Charlie Kearns, Charles Capouet
On September 13, 2023, the D.C. Tax Revision Commission met and evaluated over a dozen tax proposals. Most concerning, the Commission discussed the possibility of implementing a digital advertising tax…