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Florida's New Data Privacy Bill Is an Outlier, Going Both Broad and Narrow
The Florida law, which will go into effect on July 1, 2024, positions itself as an outlier among other state data privacy regulations.
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Plan to Protect Cybersecurity for Employees Before Day One
With new employees come new risks; from aspiring insider threats that intend to join a target to extract sensitive information, to insecure processes being exploited due to too much trust being placed in candidates and new hires.
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Preparing Companies for Impending Data Privacy, Cybersecurity Changes
Failing to pay attention to shifting data privacy and security regulations can be costly. Here's an overview of what's been happening — and what's likely to happen next — in the world of data privacy and security.
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AI Considerations for In-House Counsel
Having an AI policy that outlines acceptable use, and documenting assessments that establish that AI systems are used in a manner consistent with the policy and that the benefits outweigh potential harms, can go a long way in managing legal and reputational risk.
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4 Pitfalls To Avoid In Legal Operations (and How to Deal With Them)
For legal stakeholders seeking to take their existing legal operations programs to the next level or start new programs from scratch, there are a few all-too-easy traps that can stunt growth, cost political capital and cause headaches. Having a strategic plan, budget and critical executive buy-in is not enough to avoid these four common issues.
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How to Implement Generative AI at Your Organization
AI language models are trained on massive amounts of data to function and improve. The more data the model is trained on, the better it gets at detecting patterns, anticipating what comes next, and producing realistic text. Right now, however, there are few controls in place to stop these models from scraping personal and private information from people and business.
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How to Avoid Running Afoul of Privacy Laws
Privacy laws and enforcement are causing big changes to global commerce and have now arrived at our doorstep. The million dollar questions are how this will affect our businesses and what, if anything, do we need to do about it?
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Will Section 230 Protect AI Chatbots?
The lack of answers from the Supreme Court regarding the scope of Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act comes at a time when legal questions around generative AI are mushrooming.
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The AI Glossary
Artificial intelligence is dominating conversations across all industries, including legal. To help legal professionals navigate this fast-evolving space, we define many of the key terms and concepts relating to AI. This glossary will be continually updated as new developments emerge.
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Why Your Managed Service Provider Should Be Using Automated SIEM Logs to Manage Data Security Threats to Your Firm
To effectively safeguard their data and networks, law firms need to deploy advanced security tools that can help detect and respond to threats in real time. One such tool is security information and event management (SIEM) software.
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