Microsoft Landed a Patent to Turn You Into a Chatbot
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What if the most significant measure of your life’s labors has nothing to do with your lived experiences but merely your unintentional generation of a realistic digital clone of yourself, a specimen of ancient man for the amusement of people of the year 4500 long after you have departed this mortal coil? This is the least horrifying question raised by a recently-granted Microsoft patent for an individual-based chatbot.
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If the past two years of ramping up compliance for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) wasn t fun enough, businesses have new compliance challenges ahead in the next couple of years. This past November, California voters passed the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). The CPRA was a ballot initiative that modifies and expands the CCPA. It adjusts the criteria for applicability, adds a category for sensitive personal information, gives individuals new rights and also expands some of the existing CPRA rights. It also creates a new private enforcement authority and adopts some principles from the GDPR. Businesses will need to start modifying their privacy practices ahead of the CPRA effective date, January 1, 2023.
By Jaclyn Jaeger2021-01-21T21:19:00+00:00
Companies whose employees are starting to return to the workplace must ensure they don’t unwittingly expose themselves to compliance failures for breaching data privacy and data security laws while simultaneously trying to comply with social distancing and other pandemic-related government regulations and guidelines.
On Thursday, during Compliance Week’s virtual Cyber-Risk and Data Privacy Summit, a panel of experts shared best practices as they relate to the complexities facing today’s workplace remote working, health declarations, thermal screening, contact tracing, etc. Among the many relevant privacy and security laws that legal, compliance, and human resources departments must keep in mind in this era of COVID-19 are the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and more.
The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) – passed by voters in November – amends the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in a number of critical ways. Join us for a discussion of the.
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New Year, New Rules: California Passes the California Privacy Rights Act
On Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020, California voters were tasked with more than casting their votes in the presidential election. Californians also voted on California Proposition 24, which is the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). Proposition 24 passed, receiving about 56% of the vote. Proposition 24 both supplements and revises certain aspects of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the first domestic data privacy statute of its kind, which was signed into law in 2018.
To date, California is the only state that has a comprehensive consumer data privacy law in place. The CCPA’s main provisions took effect on Jan. 1, 2020, and regulations implementing the CCPA became effective on Aug. 14, 2020. Since its inception, the CCPA has been periodically edited, clarified and changed by the legislature. Of note, on Sept. 25, 2020, the California governor, Gavin Newsom, signed a bill