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March 21st, 2022
California Businesses Gain Clarity on Consumer Data Requests
Privacy & Data Security Practice Group Chair Daniel M. Goldberg is quoted in the article, “California Businesses Gain Clarity on Consumer Data Requests” published by Bloomberg Law. The article discusses Attorney General Rob Bonta’s opinion under the California Consumer Privacy Act that consumers have a right to access inferences, regardless of whether those are generated by a company’s data or data from another source. Daniel says, “Many companies were already treating inferences as personal information under the law and responding to consumer requests accordingly.” Adding, “[Attorney General] Bonta’s opinion should convince any holdouts that treating generated inferences differently than acquired personal information isn’t a tenable approach.”
Daniel points out an unclear piece of the opinion, “Still, the opinion doesn’t expressly address whether consumers’ right to delete and right to correct—which will go into effect when amendments to the CCPA become operative on Jan. 1, 2023—extends to inferences as well.” Daniel concludes by saying, “The bigger issue for me is: Where do we go from here?”
Read the full article here. (Behind paywall)
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4 Takeaways From 1st Opinion on AI Training and Fair Use
Law 360 quotes Jacqueline Charlesworth on the Third Circuit ruling granting summary judgment to Thomson Reuters, in a case alleging tech startup ROSS Intelligence infringed copyrighted material from Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw platform to create a competing legal research tool. Ms. Charlesworth stated the ruling is significant because many AI companies are asserting transformative use, in interpreting The Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith case. (Behind paywall) View Article
February 13 2025
Thomson Reuters Prevails in Copyright Battle with AI Company
MediaDailyNews quotes Jeremy S. Goldman on the federal court decision that Ross Intelligence infringed Thomson Reuters’ copyright by training its services using Westlaw summaries, known as “headnotes.” Mr. Goldman states the ruling could impact lawsuits by other copyright owners over the use of their material to develop AI. However, he distinguishes some of the high-profile cases such as those against OpenAI in training ChatGPT. He notes OpenAI argues it did not copy material to compete with authors and publishers but to create its language model and technology. View Article
February 12 2025
What a Character
Boston College Law School Magazine quotes Jeffrey A. Greenberg in a profile of Michael Schiffer, founder of S2 Advertising Law, and the former legal director at Twitter. The article titled "What a Character" notes that Mr. Greenberg was on the hiring committee that recruited Mr. Schiffer to join Frankfurt Kurnit’s Advertising group, where he worked for more than 10 years. View Article
February 11 2025
