Kayla Dwyer reports: Attorney General Todd Rokita has dropped his lawsuit against IU Health, originally waged in the wake of the media firestorm over an anecdote one of the system’s doctors shared with IndyStar about a 10-year-old rape victim who traveled to Indiana for an abortion. Rokita filed the lawsuit in September of last year, alleging IU Health violated…
Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are “Categorically” Unconstitutional
Andrew Crocker writes: In a major decision on Friday, the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that geofence warrants are “categorically prohibited by the Fourth Amendment.” Closely following arguments EFF has made in a number of cases, the court found that geofence warrants constitute the sort of “general, exploratory rummaging” that the drafters of the Fourth Amendment intended to outlaw. EFF…
Do You Catch Our Drift? Navigating the Waters of Offshoring and Patient Data
Carolyn Metnick, Michael Sutton, and Lotan Barbaresso of SheppardMullin write: With technology rapidly evolving and jurisdictions appearing blurred, it is increasingly important to be mindful of data flow and use. This is particularly true where patient data is being accessed by offshore subcontractors. Simply put, offshoring occurs where a party contracts for services to be…
Copyright group takes down Dutch language AI dataset
Reuters reports: Dutch-based copyright enforcement group BREIN has taken down a large language dataset that was being offered for use in training AI models, the organization said on Tuesday. The dataset included information collected without permission from tens of thousands of books, news sites, and Dutch language subtitles harvested from “countless” films and TV series,…