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Bloomberg Law In-House Forum Examines Navigating Data Laws & AI Challenges

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Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Marketing, Senior, AI, Max Schrems, CPPA, NOYB, CJEU, CLE, General counsel, Schrems, Justice, Organization, SCCS, Privacy, DPF, Machine learning, Bloomberg Law, Salesforce, Citigroup, CCPA, Urban, Medical device

ARLINGTON, Va., March 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloomberg Law today announced that its annual In-House Forum will be held virtually on Wednesday, March 13, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. ET. The CLE-eligible event will focus on the changing world of consumer privacy, including new laws and frameworks and challenges around AI and machine learning applications. Registration for the event, Global Privacy Dynamics: Navigating Data Laws & AI Challenges, is available at https://aboutblaw.com/bcRW.

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  • The CLE-eligible event will focus on the changing world of consumer privacy, including new laws and frameworks and challenges around AI and machine learning applications.
  • Registration for the event, Global Privacy Dynamics: Navigating Data Laws & AI Challenges, is available at https://aboutblaw.com/bcRW .
  • "The Bloomberg Law In-House Forum will provide practitioners with valuable insights into the myriad of AI-related privacy considerations surrounding consumer rights and strategies for handling them."
  • Edward Britan, Senior Vice President, Global Privacy and Marketing Legal, Salesforce
    Erika Brown Lee, Managing Director & General Counsel, Global Data Privacy, Citigroup

Colorado’s Approval of Global Privacy Control: Implications for Advertisers and Publishers

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Wednesday, February 14, 2024
HTTP, CPA, GPC, FPF, Specification (technical standard), CPPA, Language, Sale, Advertising, API, Do Not Track, AG, Organization, Sephora, Privacy, CCPA, Publishing, Private investigator

The privacy laws of both Colorado and California require organizations to recognize Universal Opt-Out Mechanisms (UOOMs), a tool through which a person can invoke their opt out rights broadly across all the websites they visit. While California has required responding to certain UOOMs since July 2021, the Colorado Attorney General has only recently approved their [?]

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The privacy laws of both Colorado and California require organizations to recognize Universal Opt-Out Mechanisms (UOOMs), a tool through which a person can invoke their opt out rights broadly across all the websites they visit. While California has required responding to certain UOOMs since July 2021, the Colorado Attorney General has only recently approved their [?]

JOSEPH GREENWALD & LAAKE AND DWORKEN & BERNSTEIN FILE CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT ALLEGING WALMART ENGAGED IN UNFAIR AND DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES IN WASHINGTON, D.C

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Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Veronica, CPPA, Advertising, Judgement, Superior court, Walmart

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Yesterday, a class action complaint was filed in D.C. Superior Court against Walmart Inc. alleging that by advertising and offering goods without the intent to sell them as offered in their Washington, D.C., stores, Walmart violated the District of Columbia Consumer Protection Procedures Act (CPPA) (D.C. Code § 28-3905). Under the D.C. CPPA, consumers harmed by unlawful trade practices may sue for damages and may be awarded statutory damages of $1,500 per violation. The case was filed on behalf of class member Christina Rector.

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  • Under the D.C. CPPA, consumers harmed by unlawful trade practices may sue for damages and may be awarded statutory damages of $1,500 per violation.
  • "A class action is superior to any other available means for the fair and efficient adjudication of this controversy," said class action attorney Nicole Fiorelli of Dworken & Bernstein.
  • "We want to ensure that the D.C. Consumer Protection Procedures Act guards purchasers against these unfair and deceptive trade practices."
  • Plaintiffs are represented by Drew LaFramboise and Veronica Nannis of Joseph, Greenwald & Laake , and Nicole Fiorelli, Frank Bartela, Patrick Perotti and Shmuel Kleinman of Dworken & Bernstein .

Consumer Watchdog Report Shows How Wall Street AI Could Cause a Financial Crisis And How it Can Be Stopped

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Thursday, January 11, 2024
Consumer Watchdog, Artificial intelligence, JPMorgan Chase, Privacy, Research, CPPA, Patent, Algorithm, Policy, Multimedia, Public Citizen, Federal, Housing, ING Group, Intelligence, Federal Reserve, OpenAI, History, University, AI, Bias, Government, Crash, Morgan Stanley, Hallucination, Wealth, Deutsche Bank, Federation, Fedspeak, CCPA, Goldman Sachs, Private sector, Wells Fargo, Automation, News, Data, Deep learning, University of Southern California, Cryptocurrency

Spending on AI by the financial services sector is the biggest across industries, including tech, said the nonprofit.

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  • Spending on AI by the financial services sector is the biggest across industries, including tech, said the nonprofit.
  • Over 90 percent of AI patents in the banking sector were filed by five investment banks, according to Evident, which monitors AI implementation in the private sector.
  • Virtually every bank will have its own version of ChatGPT that will give financial advice to employees and customers.
  • "Absent proper regulation, the next financial crisis could be caused by AI," said Justin Kloczko, tech advocate for Consumer Watchdog.

Five Big Questions (and Zero Predictions) for the U.S. State Privacy Landscape in 2024

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Tuesday, January 2, 2024
Zero, Consensus, General Data Protection Regulation, Parental consent, Law, CCPA, Government, Health, Commerce, Congress, State legislature (United States), Traction, Association, Risk management, GDPR, Dormant Commerce Clause, Collection, Artificiality, Legislation, Artificial intelligence, Practice, Privacy, Life, Agency, Sephora, State, AI, BIPA, Advertising, Data collection, G20, Dust, Failure, Book, CPPA, Industry, Compliance, Constitutional right, District, Confusion, ULC, Adoption, Social media, AADC, Consumer Protection Act, Child, NetChoice v. Paxton

Entering 2024, the United States now stands alone as the sole G20 nation without a comprehensive, national framework governing the collection and use of personal data. With bipartisan efforts to enact federal privacy legislation once again languishing in Congress, state-level activity on privacy dramatically accelerated in 2023. As the dust from this year settles, we [?]

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Entering 2024, the United States now stands alone as the sole G20 nation without a comprehensive, national framework governing the collection and use of personal data. With bipartisan efforts to enact federal privacy legislation once again languishing in Congress, state-level activity on privacy dramatically accelerated in 2023. As the dust from this year settles, we [?]

Aurora IP on the way to attain carbon neutrality in textile industry

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Friday, October 27, 2023
Carbon, Water supply, Development, Orientation, Organization, Electricity, Textile industry, Environment, Water resources, DPPA, LNG, Heat, CTG, LPG, CPPA, Clothing, Renewable energy

Cat Tuong Group (CTG) - investor of Aurora Industrial Park (Aurora IP), is the only Vietnamese representative attending the conference.

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  • Cat Tuong Group (CTG) - investor of Aurora Industrial Park (Aurora IP), is the only Vietnamese representative attending the conference.
  • In the context of promoting a low-carbon economy and advocating clean production, the textile and apparel industry has a responsibility to reduce carbon emissions.
  • The textile industry's trend of creating low-emission production technologies and achieving carbon neutrality calls for proactive actions at every single link in the supply chain.
  • By introducing new technological advancements and promoting clean production, improving energy efficiency, the textile industry can reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions, gradually working towards carbon neutrality goals.

TotalEnergies Starts Up 380 MW Utility-Scale Solar Power Plant with Battery Storage in Texas

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Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Principal, TotalEnergies, ERCOT, Solar energy, Weather, Nigerian National Integrated Power Project, IRA, Erongo Battery Energy Storage System, Carbon, Wind, Nominal power (photovoltaic), Electricity, Entrepreneurship, CCGT, Senior, ESS, Saft, Inflation, CPPA, Renewable energy, LNG

Located south of Houston, Texas, Myrtle has a capacity of 380 megawatts peak (MWp) of solar production and 225 MWh of co-located batteries.

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  • Located south of Houston, Texas, Myrtle has a capacity of 380 megawatts peak (MWp) of solar production and 225 MWh of co-located batteries.
  • Originally developed by a joint venture of SunChase Power and Eolian, L.P. (Eolian), the Myrtle project was purchased by TotalEnergies in 2021.
  • In addition to the photovoltaic installations, the solar power plant also features battery energy storage equipment to meet the need for grid stabilization.
  • "We are very proud to start up Myrtle, TotalEnergies' largest-to-date operated utility-scale solar farm with storage in the United States.

Northland Power Announces Signing of Credit Agreement for $5.0 Billion Project Financing at Hai Long Offshore Wind Project

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Friday, September 22, 2023
Maintenance, Mitsui, CPPA, Export credit agency, CAD, Government, Sale, Wind, ATM, NPI, TSX, Adjustment, Free cash flow, PPA, Long, Mitsui & Co., Renewable energy, Commercial property, Nguyễn Hai Long, Taiwan Power Company

TORONTO, Sept. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northland Power Inc. (Northland) (TSX: NPI) today announced that its Hai Long offshore wind project (Hai Long or the project) in Taiwan has signed a credit agreement to secure 118 billion New Taiwan Dollars long-term over 20 year non-recourse financing (equivalent of $5 billion CAD). The weighted average all-in interest cost for the term of the financing is expected to be approximately five per cent.

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  • The project is Northland’s first offshore wind project in Asia and fifth in Northland’s offshore wind portfolio.
  • Upon completion of Hai Long and the Baltic Power project, the company’s gross installed offshore wind capacity will nearly triple from 1.2 GW to 3.3 GW.
  • TORONTO, Sept. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northland Power Inc. (Northland) (TSX: NPI) today announced that its Hai Long offshore wind project (Hai Long or the project) in Taiwan has signed a credit agreement to secure 118 billion New Taiwan Dollars long-term over 20 year non-recourse financing (equivalent of $5 billion CAD).
  • Once operational, Hai Long will be one the largest offshore wind facilities in Asia, and provide enough clean energy to power more than one million Taiwanese households.

CPPA Seeks to Overturn Superior Court Decision Delaying Enforcement of Consumer Privacy Regulations

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Friday, August 4, 2023
Courts, Online Privacy, Public Policy, Government, State, Local, Technology, Internet, CPRA, Superior court, Agency, New York Court of Appeals, CCPA, California Privacy Protection Agency, CPPA, Much Apu About Nothing, California Consumer Privacy Act, California Chamber of Commerce, Privacy, Prop

Today, the California Privacy Protection Agency and California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a petition with California’s Third District Court of Appeal to overturn a recent trial court decision that imposed a 12-month delay on enforcement of the Agency’s privacy regulations.

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  • Today, the California Privacy Protection Agency and California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a petition with California’s Third District Court of Appeal to overturn a recent trial court decision that imposed a 12-month delay on enforcement of the Agency’s privacy regulations.
  • In November 2020, California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 24, the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA) to advance stronger privacy protections with respect to the use of their personal information.
  • The CPRA created the California Privacy Protection Agency as the first independent data protection authority in the United States to implement and enforce the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
  • At the end of June—just one day before the CPPA’s enforcement authority was set to commence—the Superior Court stayed enforcement of many of the CPPA’s recently adopted regulations based on its interpretation of a single ambiguous section in the CPRA.

Consumer Watchdog Applauds CA Privacy Agency's Investigation into Car Data

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Monday, July 31, 2023
Travel, California Consumer Privacy Act, CPPA, CCPA, Ford, Privacy, Web browser, Multimedia, California Privacy Protection Agency, McKinsey & Company, Threat, Acquisition, 2600-series (CTA), Consumer Watchdog, United States Secretary of Homeland Security, General Motors, Safety, Willie L. Williams, Ridesharing, Cryptocurrency, Online shopping

LOS ANGELES, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- California's privacy enforcement agency is investigating how car companies that collect personal data—a ballooning multibillion dollar industry—are complying with data privacy laws.

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  • LOS ANGELES, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- California's privacy enforcement agency is investigating how car companies that collect personal data—a ballooning multibillion dollar industry—are complying with data privacy laws.
  • "We're glad the agency is using its authority to investigate how powerful car companies are collecting and using our personal information under the law.
  • These companies know more about us than we know about ourselves, and they're the ones in control of our personal information, not us," said Justin Kloczko, tech privacy advocate for Consumer Watchdog.
  • Consumer Watchdog investigated the personal data gold rush of the car industry in its 2022 report, " Connected Cars and the Threat to Your Privacy."