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New AI Data Analytics toolkit launched by ICO

February 19, 2021 Geofrey Banzi, Legal Technologist, Big Four 0

Reading Time: 2 minutes Top Story: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has recently just published a new data analytics toolkit. The toolkit is expected to help organisational users of ‘Data analytics’ better understand whether their AI and Data Analytics practises, […]

Using Bountiful Blurring To Keep Self-Driving Cars From Telling All
Self-driving cars will be capturing video of everything they encounter, raising privacy qualms, of which using blurring might be a helpful remedy.
Lance Eliot, Contributor
Routing Of Self-Driving Cars To Avoid The Bad Parts Of Town Raises Some Serious Eyebrows
Self-driving cars are readily routed and could be programmed to avoid the bad parts of town, but this raises concerns from a societal viewpoint.
Lance Eliot, Contributor
Barring Those Gearhead Enthusiasts From Tinkering With Self-Driving Cars
Those vaunted gearheads are going to be barred from tinkering with self-driving cars and won't be allowed to do any under-the-hood wonderment.
Lance Eliot, Contributor
Self-Driving Cars Grappling With Human Drivers That Blow Through Stop Signs
Human drivers blow through stop signs, dangerously so, and self-driving cars need to anticipate and cope with this disastrous behavior.
Lance Eliot, Contributor

EDPB adopts opinions on draft UK adequacy decisions at 48th Plenary Session April 15, 2021
At its 48th Plenary Session on 14 April 2021, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopted opinions on the draft EU-UK GDPR and LED adequacy decisions, Guidelines on the application of Article 65(1)(a) GDPR, a final version of the Guidelines on the targeting of social media users and a Statement on international agreements including transfers.
Tribunal grants Ticketmaster stay of appeal proceedings April 14, 2021
In Ticketmaster UK Limited v Information Commissioner [2021] UKFTT 0083, the First-tier Tribunal (Information Rights) granted Ticketmaster's application to stay the proceedings in the Tribunal concerning its appeal against a Monetary Penalty Notice for breaches of Articles 5(1)(f) and 32 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
New non-statutory Digital Markets Unit begins work and terms of reference published April 7, 2021
On 7 April 2021, BEIS, DCMS and the CMA announced that a new Digital Markets Unit (DMU), established within the CMA, has begun work in shadow, non-statutory form. The terms of reference for the DMU have also been published.
Practical Law Media & Telecoms monthly bulletin for March 2021 April 1, 2021
A monthly summary of key developments for media and telecoms practitioners.

Pausing the J&J Vaccine Was Easy. Unpausing Will Be Hard April 15, 2021
Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine was supposed to be the uncomplicated one. But even with new data, getting people to trust it again will be tricky.
Adam Rogers
The Humble Shrub That’s Predicting a Terrible Fire Season April 15, 2021
Chamise may not look (or smell) like much, but it's actually a kind of crystal ball for understanding how badly California might burn.
Matt Simon
Will Future Electric Vehicles Be Powered by Deep-Sea Metals? April 14, 2021
Mining companies and marine scientists want to know whether harvesting blobs of useful materials from the seafloor harms ocean life.
Eric Niiler
Did This Scorching-Hot Planet Lose—and Regain—an Atmosphere? April 14, 2021
A veritable hellscape of an exoplanet is challenging researchers’ assumptions about what types of worlds host atmospheres.
Meghan Herbst
How Many Homes Could You Power With Free Doughnuts? April 13, 2021
Should you get a COVID vaccine? Yes, it will protect you AND protect others to help us move past this pandemic so we can get back to a more normal life. But wait! If you get vaccinated, you can also get a doughnut! At least that's the deal that Krispy Kreme Doughnuts is offering. Once […]
Rhett Allain