Lyann Danielak, Joshua Hutchinson, and Robin Reinertson of Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP write: On July 4, 2024, the B.C. Court of Appeal issued a duo of class action appeal decisions considering the potential scope of statutory and common law privacy claims against data custodians that fall victim to cyberattacks in data breach cases. In…
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UK: Essex school reprimanded after using facial recognition technology for canteen payments
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: We have issued a reprimand to a school that broke the law when it introduced facial recognition technology (FRT). Chelmer Valley High School, in Chelmsford, Essex, first started using the technology in March 2023 to take cashless canteen payments from students. FRT processes biometric data to uniquely identify people and…
AI Act Published in the Official Journal of the EU
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On July 12, 2024, Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (the “AI Act”) was published in the Official Journal of the EU. The final version of the AI Act closely follows the previous versions of the text,…
Court ordered penalties for 15 teens who created naked AI images of classmates
Ashley Belanger reports: A Spanish youth court has sentenced 15 minors to one year of probation after spreading AI-generated nude images of female classmates in two WhatsApp groups. The minors were charged with 20 counts of creating child sex abuse images and 20 counts of offenses against their victims’ moral integrity. In addition to probation, the teens…