IT’S THE LAW (9/1/2020)
New Zealand’s 2020 Privacy Act goes into effect December 1. A key provision is the requirement for mandatory notification of harmful privacy breaches and a $10,000 fine for violation.
New Zealand’s 2020 Privacy Act goes into effect December 1. A key provision is the requirement for mandatory notification of harmful privacy breaches and a $10,000 fine for violation.
InfoSum has technology that lets companies analyze data on shared customers without sharing the data itself. It uses Bloom filters, a term you can casually drop the next time you’re trying to impress a privacy geek. The rest of us may be impressed that they just raised $15 million to complete their Series A.
Berbix, a start-up by former Airbnb trust and safety team members, announced it raised $9 million Series A funding. The platform exposes fraud via granular ID flags and prompts end-users to validate their IDs. The ID-verification-as-a-service market is anticipated to grow to between $16-20B by 2022, according to McKinsey.
A district judge has ruled that, as a matter of law, Ross Intelligence’s use of Thompson Reuters’ Westlaw content to train its own legal research model is not “fair use” but copyright infringement. This is a revision of a 2023 ruling and leaves issues for a jury to decide. It might, however, shut down one line of defense when it comes to AI scraping of copyright material.