The California model: Legislate in haste, repair whenever, dude.
Inside the
lobbying war over California’s landmark privacy law
A landmark law adopted in California last year to
rein in the data-collection practices of Facebook, Google and other
tech giants has touched off a lobbying blitz that could water it
down, potentially undermining new protections that might apply to
Internet users across the country.
… Other states this year have sprung to action
in a bid to follow California’s lead. Lawmakers in New Mexico have
put forward a bill that largely copies Sacramento. In Massachusetts,
members of the legislature unveiled a proposal that would allow
consumers to sue if their privacy is violated. And in the state of
Washington, Democratic Sen. Reuven Carlyle authored a measure that
borrows from Europe’s approach.
“I don’t think there’s a state legislature
in the country that doesn’t want comprehensive, sweeping
legislation they craft to become a national model,” Carlyle said.
“Never attribute to malice that which is
adequately explained by stupidity.” That’s a defense that could
be impossible to disprove.
Alex Hernandez reports:
…U.S. Senator Ron Wyden from (D) Oregon is purposing a new bill that would deal out jail time to executives whose companies violate online privacy.
Senator Ron Wyden isn’t only pitching jail time but also billions of dollars in fines on companies and executives who enable privacy breaches. The senior senator from Oregon believes that privacy and data breaches are corporate fraud and should be dealt with accordingly.
Read more on TechAeris.
HIPAA compliance may be a bit much to ask for.
New voices
at patients’ bedsides: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Apple
… Hospitals are exploring new uses in
intensive care units and surgical recovery rooms, and contemplating a
future in which Alexa, or another voice avatar, becomes a virtual
member of the medical team — monitoring doctor-patient
interactions, suggesting treatment approaches, or even alerting
caregivers to voice changes that could be an early warning of a
health emergency.
“Why not have a connected speaker in the room
listening to conversations?” asked John Brownstein, chief
innovation officer at Boston
Children’s Hospital, which is piloting dozens
of voice applications. Voice technology still remains at the
edges of patient care, he added, but the hospital is already using it
to improve the efficiency of ICU care and help prepare doctors for
transplant surgeries.
… Underlying that work is an increasingly
fierce competition for health care dollars among giant technology
companies and scores of startups that are investing heavily in
voice-enabled products and services. Clinicians are waiting to see
which of the largest companies will be the first to introduce a smart
speaker that fully complies with health care privacy laws, a step
that would allow them to delve even deeper into patient care.
… Several startups have already
created HIPAA-compliant voice software for use with electronic
medical records systems. Sopris
Health, a Denver-based
company, developed a product designed to automatically convert a
doctor-patient conversation into text that is then loaded into a
doctor’s note. Other competitors in the field include Suki,
Notable,
Nuance,
and Seattle-based SayKara,
which is led by former Amazon engineers.
Reminds me of the recent ‘Artificial Lawyer’
article.
Will A.I.
Put Lawyers Out Of Business?
What is the law but a series of algorithms?
Codified instructions proscribing dos and don’ts—ifs and thens.
Sounds a lot like computer programming, right? The legal system, on
the other hand, is not as straightforward as coding. Just consider
the complicated state of justice today, whether it be problems
stemming from backlogged courts, overburdened public defenders, and
swathes of defendants
disproportionately accused of crimes.
So, can artificial intelligence help?
Very much so. Law firms are already using AI to
more efficiently perform due diligence, conduct research and bill
hours. But some expect the impact of AI to be much more
transformational. It’s
predicted AI will eliminate most paralegal and legal research
positions within the next decade. Could judges and
lawyers share the same fate? My coauthor Michael
Ashley and I spoke to experts about AI’s impact on the legal
system for our upcoming book, Own the A.I. Revolution: Unlock
Your Artificial Intelligence Strategy to Disrupt Your Competition.
“It
may even be considered legal malpractice not
to use AI one day,” says Tom
Girardi, renowned civil litigator and the real-life inspiration
for the lawyer in the movie, Erin Brockovich. “It would
be analogous to a lawyer in the late twentieth century still doing
everything by hand when this person could use a computer.”
Perspective. Soon to be “mandatory”
technology? Can an employer require you to wear a monitor away from
work?
Fitbit has
a new health tracker, but you can only get it through your employer
or insurer
… Fitbit has been developing software to help
companies give employees tools to track their health and encourage
behavior change. The Inspire, which has basic features like heart
rate, step tracking, and calories burned, adds hardware to its line
of business-to-business products. The Inspire is available as a
wristband or a clip, which can more easily be hidden under clothing
and might prove appealing to corporate users.
"We built it as a program for digital
health interventions," Park said, in an interview at
Fitbit's headquarters this week.
… Both Fitbit and Apple are telling employers
and insurers that they can help bring health-care costs down by
improving overall wellness. The devices are typically offered
through workplace wellness programs, and are subsidized, earned
through healthy behavior or available free of charge.
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