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The Importance of Cyber Vigilance: Control Liability and Litigation Exposure
This article covers cyber trends and tips for organizations to explore in order to be better equipped to anticipate and respond to cyber incidents before a devastating breach occurs. The outcome? Diminished chance of class action activity, compliance violations, lost business, and mounting costs.
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Fighting Cybercrime With Cyberaccounting
As cybercrime intensifies, it is revealing a skills shortfall among those who defend our financial infrastructure. It has become critically clear that we need to radically rethink the way we prepare our frontline defense to include more experts with both technical savvy and accounting expertise. In other words, we need an army of cyber accountants.
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Experience Management: Platform vs. Best of Breed
Should your firm buy into a platform and capitalize on those efficiencies and integrations, or should you go "best of breed," seeking out the best solutions for each business problem your firm is trying to solve with technology and create integrations where needed? Here are some thoughts on the platform versus best of breed paths when it comes to experience management.
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Next On AI's Agenda, Regulatory Scrutiny
While some jurisdictions are enacting or proposing AI-specific regulation, many existing regulatory frameworks apply to new technologies, including antitrust. Companies may experience different potential antitrust risks depending on the type of AI technology and their use of that technology.
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United Kingdom Approves Online Safety Bill; Making Social Media Companies Responsible
The United Kingdom's Online Safety Bill makes social media companies responsible to prevent and remove illegal or dangerous content, including posts relating to terrorism, child exploitation, hate crimes or fraud.
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New Jersey Looks to Other States In Enacting Data Privacy Legislation
At this juncture New Jersey stands at a crossroad, with the Legislature facing important choices on the scope and terms of comprehensive privacy legislation that will have a dramatic impact on business operations as well as the individual rights of New Jersey residents.
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In Case You Missed It: AI Ethics, Algorithms and Other Takeaways from the First-Ever IAPP AI Conference
The conference's panels and keynotes looked to connect the dots between the tools governments and individuals have in the age of AI to protect themselves — and the tools they will need to develop.
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Experience Management: Selecting Best of Breed Solutions for Better Business Outcomes
Experience management is vital not only in terms of raw time savings and cost efficiencies but is pivotal in the firm's ability to win new business.
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AI's Growing Impact On the Gaming Industry
The gaming and wagering sector has begun to cross paths with artificial intelligence technology in ways both predictable and unforeseen. As with other industries, AI technology inevitably has found its way into various components of the gaming experience. What is striking, however, is how AI is revolutionizing gaming for operators, regulators, suppliers and patrons alike.
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Designing the Future: Protecting AR/VR Innovations With Design Patents
The future is only redesigned every so often, so it is worth asking, what will this new technology look like, and how can pioneers protect their user-facing innovations that will define this emerging space? Design patents are the answer.
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