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SVLG Shareholder Stephen Wu will host a webinar on February 27, 2019. at 10 am Pacific/1 pm Eastern. The presenter for this webinar is Attorney Paul Starrett. The program is entitled “Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Investigations.”

SVLG regularly hosts Meetups of the American Bar Association Section of Science & Technology Law’s Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Committee.  The Committee offers Meetup programs as a member benefit.

During the program, Paul Starrett, EnCE, CFE, an attorney and private investigator specializing in high-profile investigations, will discuss applying machine learning to investigations. More specifically, he will focus on the synergy among machine-learning tools found in information retrieval, natural-language processing and graph databases. He will also talk about how that synergy provides an efficient means to reveal vital insights.  Without such insights, those insights might be lost.

SVLG Shareholder Stephen Wu will host a conference call program on the recent Equifax data breach on October 25, 2017 at 10 am Pacific/1 pm Eastern. While the Equifax is not the largest ever in terms of the total number of records affected, by some estimates, it affected about half of the population in the United States. With a breach that large, legislators and regulators are considering what new policies may help to prevent future large-scale breaches.

For businesses that create, receive, maintain, and transmit personal data, the Equifax breach raises the question of what changes are necessary to keep up with evolving data security threats. According to news reports, the breach occurred because of a failure in patch management — a failure to implement a publicly available patch to a known security vulnerability for a period of months. Are there emerging threats that warrant changes in patch management practices? Or did the Equifax breach occur because of the company’s failure to take care of the basic patch management steps. We will explore these questions in this program.

The program will generally explore the technical and legal ramifications of the breach.  What are the prospects for liability? What compliance challenges does the breach highlight? Are there changes in documented practice and procedure that the breach would suggest?

On January 19, 2017, SVLG attorney Stephen Wu will present a program at the Global Artificial Intelligence Conference entitled “Product Liability Issues in AI Systems.”  The talk will focus on product liability risks to companies providing AI-based products and services.  It will cover the sources of legal risk to manufacturers, and how manufacturers can manage those risks.  Many in the industry consider liability to be a chief obstacle to the widespread deployment of AI systems.  Nonetheless, it is possible to implement design practices and procedures to minimize and manage legal risk.

In preparation for the conference, Steve Wu addressed some questions posed by the conference organizers.  Some of the conference’s questions and Steve Wu’s answers are below.

Q.  Where are we now today in terms of the state of artificial intelligence, and where do you think we’ll go over the next five years?

Silicon Valley Law Group is pleased to announce the publication of Attorney Stephen S. Wu’s new book: “A Guide to HIPAA Security and the Law – Second Edition.” The American Bar Association published his book last month. The book provides detailed information about healthcare information technology security legal requirements and how covered entities and business associates can comply with them.

Also, please join us for a special Meetup presentation, in which Steve Wu will share his thoughts on an important topic covered in one of his book’s chapters: the impact of emerging technologies on HIPAA security compliance. The program is on September 28, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time at SVLG’s offices. A dial-in is available for those unable to attend in person.

The Department of Health and Human Services issued the HIPAA Security Rule in 2003 to impose information technology security requirements on HIPAA covered entities:  healthcare providers, health plans, and healthcare clearinghouses.  Later legislation and regulation also imposed HIPAA security requirements on various “business associates” of these covered entities.  Despite some changes in coverage and the breach notification rule, the core HIPAA security requirements have remained unchanged since 2003.  Nonetheless, technology trends such as cloud computing, social media, and mobile computing required applying the existing rules to new technologies.  Moreover, we are now facing dramatic and sweeping changes with augmented and virtual reality systems, Big Data, 3D printing, healthtech, the Internet of Things, robots, and artificial intelligence systems.
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