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White House Orders New Rules on U.S. Outbound Investment

The Biden Administration has issued its long-awaited Executive Order on Addressing United States Investments in Certain National Security Technologies and Products in Countries of Concern (“EO”), which will create a new...more

US Government Reviews Record Foreign Investments for National Security Risk

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) reviewed a record number of transactions for national security risks in 2022: 440 covered transactions, up from 436 transactions in 2021, according to its...more

Leading Tech Firms Agree to White House's AI Safeguards

On Friday, July 21, 2023, the White House announced that seven US technology companies at the forefront of generative artificial intelligence (AI) agreed to eight voluntary commitments to “promote the safe, secure, and...more

Federal Agencies Publish New Version of the #StopRansomware Guide

On May 23, 2023, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a second edition of the #StopRansomware Guide (the Guide). The Guide, first published in September 2020, aims to help organizations reduce...more

White House Announces Initiatives to Promote “Responsible” AI Innovation

In light of the rapid emergence and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and systems, the Biden Administration convened the CEOs of leading AI companies on May 4, 2023 at the White House and announced several...more

Four Federal Agencies Reaffirm Authority to Monitor Automated Systems for Unlawful Discrimination and Other Federal Law Violations

On April 25, 2023 four federal agencies—the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...more

Disinformation Litigation Lessons From Media Co. Losses

In 2022 and early 2023, voting machine companies and the parents of school shooting victims won a string of court rulings against the media companies and personalities that had allegedly spread defamatory, viral lies about...more

NYC Soon To Enforce AI Bias Law, Other Jurisdictions Likely to Follow

New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) is expected to begin enforcing the City’s novel artificial intelligence (AI) bias audit law on July 5, 2023. This law prohibits the use of automated decision...more

FTC Warns Companies of the Potentially Deceptive Uses of AI Tools

On March 20, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a blog post advising companies to consider the potentially deceptive or unfair use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to generate synthetic media. The FTC...more

Italy’s Privacy Regulator Takes Action Against ChatGPT

On March 31, 2023, Italy’s privacy regulator (the “Garante”), announced an immediate temporary limitation on the processing of data of individuals residing in Italy by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the popular artificial intelligence...more

How Companies Can Respond to the Surge in Job Scams

The ubiquity of remote work and online hiring has led to a sharp rise in job scams across industries. In these swindles—sometimes called employment scams or recruitment scams—fraudsters impersonate job recruiters from real...more

The Top 10 Legal and Business Risks of Chatbots and Generative AI

It took just two months from its introduction in November 2022 for the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot ChatGPT to reach 100 million monthly active users—the fastest growth of a consumer application in...more

The Other Side Says Your Evidence Is A Deepfake. Now What?

In several recent high-profile trials, defendants have sought to cast doubt on the reliability of video evidence by suggesting that artificial intelligence may have surreptitiously altered the videos. These challenges are...more

Executive Order Raises Regulatory Risks for Foreign Investment Across U.S. Economy

On September 15, 2022, President Biden signed an Executive Order (EO) identifying economic sectors that merit special attention for review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS or the Committee)....more

US Government Ramps Up Scrutiny of Foreign Investments

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is reviewing a record number of transactions for national security risks, according to a recently released Annual Report to Congress for Calendar Year 2021. ...more

FBI Warns That Scammers Are Using Deepfakes to Apply for Sensitive Jobs

On June 28, 2022, the FBI issued a Public Service Announcement (PSA) warning that fraudsters are using deepfakes to impersonate job applicants during online interviews and employing stolen Personally Identifiable Information...more

Disinformation and Deepfakes Risk Management (DDRM) - Fake Viral Narratives and Synthetic Media Pose Risks to Business

Fast-spreading disinformation and the growing ease with which believable deepfake media can be created are threats that are poised to accelerate a range of business dangers, particularly those related to reputational risk,...more

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Raises Cybersecurity Dangers for U.S. Businesses

Russia’s full-scale military invasion of Ukraine is raising cybersecurity risks for American businesses. Corporate America must take immediate additional precautions to protect their networks in light of what is quickly...more

Environmental Deconfliction 2021: the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2021

As in prior years, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 contains a variety of provisions setting U.S. Department of Defense priorities for energy, environmental, and natural resource issues. These...more

OFAC Imposes New Sanctions to Thwart Ransomware

On September 21, 2021, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) levied its first sanctions against a Russian-operated virtual currency exchange involved in ransomware payments and published an...more

Deepfakes and Disinformation: The World of Manipulated Media [Audio]

WilmerHale podcast co-host and Partner John Walsh welcomes Partner Jason Chipman, who moderates a discussion between fellow WilmerHale lawyer Matthew Ferraro and special guest Nina Schick on “deepfakes”—using synthetic media...more

FBI Warns Companies of “Almost Certain” Threats from Deepfakes

On March 10, 2021, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI or Bureau) issued a Private Industry Notification (PIN) advising companies that “[m]alicious actors almost certainly will leverage synthetic content for cyber and...more

3/17/2021  /  China , Deep Fake , FBI , Photographs , Russia

New York’s Right to Publicity and Deepfakes Law Breaks New Ground

New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has signed a path-breaking law addressing synthetic or digitally manipulated media. The law has two main components. First, the law establishes a postmortem right of publicity to protect...more

Biden Orders Reviews of Critical Supply Chains

On Wednesday, February 24, 2021, President Biden signed an Executive Order (Order) directing a series of reviews of global supply chains - the latest government effort to create more resilient and secure supply chains for...more

Funding Package Provides Opportunities for Clean Energy Industries

On December 27, President Donald Trump signed a $1.4 trillion appropriations package funding the government through September 2021 and a $900 billion fiscal stimulus law for coronavirus aid. Media attention has focused on the...more

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