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Alex Wall
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Privacy, technology, AI governance, security and business attorney.

Law, Policy, and Technology Blog - https://www.wallatlaw.com/blog
Latest article comparing April's OMB guidance to federal agencies versus a comprehensive set of AI governance principles.

The guidance is pretty robust, requiring a high degree of responsibility in AI deployment.
www.wallatlaw.com/blog/balanci...

#privacy #aigovernance #omb
April 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
At the founding of this country, there was a lawyer named John Adams, and he defended the British redcoats who were involved in the Boston Massacre because he was committed to the rule of law. He went on to become our first Vice President and our second President. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/n...
Granddaughters of a Paul Weiss Patriarch Deplore the Firm’s Trump Deal
The law firm’s chairman, Brad Karp, capitulated to the president’s threats. The descendants of the man who wrote its high-minded principles told Mr. Karp that he had betrayed them.
www.nytimes.com
April 3, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Legislating a particular plug type is a step too far. I understand interoperability, but technology changes! wccftech.com/apple-would-...
Apple Would Have Been Successful In Making The iPhone 17 Air Completely ‘Portless’ If The EU Regulations Did Not Get In The Way, Second Prototype Featured A Bigger Display
The EU regulations prevented Apple from turning the iPhone 17 Air into a ‘portless’ device, with the prototype in question featuring a bigger screen
wccftech.com
March 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
🚨 TODAY, Feb 2, 2025, the EU AI ACT bans several AI practices! 🚨

❌ Subliminal techniques
❌ Exploiting vulnerabilities
❌ Social scoring
❌ Facial recognition scraping
❌ Emotion recognition in work & school
❌ Biometric categorization

#AI #EUAIAct #AIEthics #TechPolicy #GDPR
February 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Car companies (including or especially foreign) know where you live, work, vacation, and much more. They should be giving consumers choice about this. foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/priv...
‘Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed By Mozilla — Including Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota — Flunks Privacy Test
Mozilla’s latest edition of *Privacy Not Included reveals how 25 major car brands collect and share deeply personal data, including sexual activity, facial expressions, and genetic and health informat...
foundation.mozilla.org
January 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Did Google solve the current problems with memory context and weighting with the Titans architecture? Certainly looks promising. arxiv.org/abs/2501.00663
Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time
Over more than a decade there has been an extensive research effort on how to effectively utilize recurrent models and attention. While recurrent models aim to compress the data into a fixed-size memo...
arxiv.org
January 16, 2025 at 12:54 AM
What fresh hell is this? Fake personalities spouting lies and impersonating humans? www.reddit.com/r/singularit...
Say hi to Meta's AI generated influencers
www.reddit.com
January 3, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Given their strict #privacy regulation, it's unsurprising that Korea would follow the EU AI Act's model. www.ccn.com/news/technol...
South Korea Joins EU in Establishing Comprehensive AI Legislation
South Korea’s National Assembly has passed the “Basic Act on the Development of Artificial Intelligence and the Establishment of Trust.”
www.ccn.com
January 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The EUPD is clear that #responsibleai means that when #personaldata is used in #ai model development, a robust privacy program is absolutely necessary to disclose and mitigate impacts to people. Legitimate interest, as opposed to strict consent, is an available legal basis/justification.
www.edpb.europa.eu
December 18, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Today's test of the current smartest AI in the world.
Should we be trusting any AI with medical insurance claims, employment decisions or anything else of importance?
December 6, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Home addresses might not seem like the most sensitive personal data, but when mishandled, the consequences can be severe—even life-threatening.

This case could be impactful for corporate privacy teams everywhere.

www.wired.com/story/daniel...
The Future of Online Privacy Hinges on Thousands of New Jersey Cops
Removing your phone number and address from the internet can be exceedingly difficult. A multibillion-dollar lawsuit led by an unlikely privacy crusader could soon catalyze change for everyone.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2024 at 7:13 PM
The Salt Typhoon hack is enormous.

If emails were transmitted over networks without encryption (e.g., using insecure SMTP or IMAP protocols), email could have been hacked in transit as well.
SMS access would allow interception of 2FA/MFA login codes/tokens.

archive.md/0knQw (unblocked)
Top senator calls Salt Typhoon ‘worst telecom hack in our nation’s history’
The severity of the Chinese breach highlights the need for more telecommunications regulation, lawmakers say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2024 at 5:25 PM