26 OCT 2021 · On 11 May, U.S. Senators Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana introduced a bill to strengthen protections for the online collection, use and disclosure of personal information of children and minors, essentially amending and updating the provisions of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, also known as COPPA. This law may be cited as the 'Children's Online Privacy Protection Act'.

11 OCT 2021 · According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "biometrics" is defined as the "designation of or relationship to" physical characteristics that are unique identifiers of individuals (fingerprints, iris pattern, etc.)". In general, biometrics concerns the measurement of biological signals.

30 SEP 2021 · European Parliament study on Biometric Recognition and its ethical and legal impacts, and proposal to amend the Artificial Intelligence Act on 21 April: PART ONE

28 SEP 2021 · The NIST, National Institute of Standards and Technology, has recently opened a major consultation on the long-standing problem of bias in the application of algorithmic systems, a publication that is part of a series of papers aimed at fostering trustworthy Artificial Intelligence - trustworthy!

15 MAR 2021 · "AI is starting to play a crucial role in systems for decision-making and autonomous processes, with potential consequences for our lives. A major concern comes from the various serious vulnerabilities affecting artificial intelligence techniques. These vulnerabilities could severely impact the robustness of current systems, leading them to uncontrolled behavior and allowing potential adversaries to trick the algorithms to their advantage." This passage is the beginning of a paper issued in 2020 by the European Commission, titled "Robustness and Explainability of Artificial Intelligence", by Ronan Hamon, Henrik Junklewitz, and Ignacio Sanchez. This paper is intended to provide an overview, designed to "strengthen" oversight of algorithmic systems, of the expected implementation of AI in the coming years, to which corresponds the need for an adequate response from regulatory bodies. BY RAFFAELLA AGHEMO

12 MAR 2021 · The aid of new technologies should not be driven only towards business policies and market strategies. Tools such as Artificial Intelligence can represent a "turning point", even in the field of energy saving, in solving problems such as global warming, to the point that Larry Fink, president and CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest investment company, has made companies aware that investors, today, expect full disclosure of the performance of companies, on a range of environmental, social and governance factors. By Raffaella Aghemo

10 MAR 2021 · The Federal Trade Commission, aware of the current state and strategic role of the new technologies mentioned above, in the person of Andrew Smith, director of the FTC Office for Consumer Protection, on April 8, published a post, just to offer "important lessons on how companies can manage the risks of consumer protection from AI and algorithms". "FTC law enforcement actions, studies and guidelines stress that the use of artificial intelligence tools should be transparent, accountable, fair and empirically correct, while promoting accountability". By Raffaella Aghemo

9 MAR 2021 · The Norwegian Data Protection Authority has developed three main compliance tensions between AI and GDPR. by Raffaella Aghemo, Lawyer