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The European Parliament has reached agreement on the text of the Digital Services Act (DSA). The DSA is new legislation that will require certain providers of online services to comply with new obligations in order to ensure online safety and to prevent the spread of illegal content. The practical effects of the legislation will likely include increased compliance costs for businesses, possible organisational/personnel changes at a compliance level and increased accountability to relevant authorities.
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As part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, Congress had tasked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to examine whether artificial intelligence (AI) is a useful tool to combat the proliferation of harmful content online. In a June 2022 report titled, “Combatting Online Harms Through Innovation,” the FTC concluded that governments, platforms and other stakeholders must exercise great caution in mandating AI use, or over-relying on AI as a solution.
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On March 10, 2022, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued a first-of-its-kind final rule updating occupant safety requirements to account for vehicles that lack the traditional manual controls associated with a human driver.1
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On Deember 3, 2021, we published a client alert on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issuing a request for public comment to help guide the development of the current and future state of technology in eight emerging technology areas. Those areas include artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT) (including in manufacturing), quantum computing, blockchain, unmanned delivery services, new and advanced materials and three-dimensional (3D) printing.
