The California Public Utilities Commission has put out a proposal authorising two pilot test programmes to legalise autonomous vehicle passenger services.
According to the US Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Aerospace Forecast Fiscal Report 2018-2038, air travel is in a strong place and will continue to grow over the next two decades. The report examines all of American aviation, including the emerging area of unmanned aviation, trends around the Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) sector and is targeted at both hobbyists and commercial operators.
In the highest profile incident involving an autonomous vehicle, one of Uber’s self-driving vehicles collided with and killed a pedestrian crossing the road in Arizona, even though the car had a safety engineer riding behind the wheel.
DJI, the world leader in consumer drone technology demonstrated its continued partnership with commercial drone data company Skycatch with the announcement of the largest commercial drone order in history.
Software vendors have a responsibility to help customers comply with the GDPR. In fact, their role is clearly defined in the regulation – Article 25 – Data protection by design and by default. Vendors need to proactively consider how their technology could potentially be used in a negative context and put in place controls to reduce the risks to users.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is powering China in its technological push. A law school in Peking University has opened a new research centre to examine how AI can impact China’s legal system. Meanwhile, law enforcement agencies have received a boost to their powers with AI-powered solutions for surveillance and monitoring. However, the recently enacted cybersecurity law raises some concerns beyond its stated jurisdiction.
“Owning a drone does not a pilot make” (Morritt, 2017). Why does only answering a few questions give someone the ability to fly through the skies like piloted aircraft? The ability to obtain a Part 107 Remote Pilot License could be made more difficult and like manned aircraft have harsher penalties for violations from individuals who are not pilots.
Last year, perhaps more notably than ever before, the leak of the 13.4 million documents that revealed the hidden wealth of the world’s richest and the operations of the offshore financial system – dubbed the Paradise Papers – highlighted the cybersecurity vulnerability of law firms.
Nesta has designed a programme called Flying High, in conjunction with Innovate UK, to develop plans to bring drones to five cities across the UK. Bradford, London, Preston, Southampton, and the West Midlands region (covering Birmingham, Coventry, and Wolverhampton) will be taking up the challenge to develop a path for the safe and effective integration of drones.
A study conducted by The Business Research Company, examining the Legal Services Market in 2018.
While the debate rages on over how to test and integrate autonomous vehicles and whether they will truly be safer, the insurance sector is preparing for the creation of a new and changed insurance market.
Mobile data forensics company MSAB has announced a new partnership with Kovar and Associates to expand the drone forensics capabilities offered by MSAB. David Kovar, the president and founder of Kovar & Associates, is a leading expert on drone forensics and he will serve as a subject matter expert and consultant to MSAB.
On 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) hits the European Union (EU) in full, replacing the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC. All member nations must have transferred it into their own national law by 6 May 2018. It will unify all the data protection and privacy laws across all member countries. In the run up to it taking full effect, companies are working out how best to comply.
Almost three quarters of the nation fear their personal details will be stolen every time they hand over bank details and email addresses to companies, it has emerged.
The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) is a joint international institution of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States and the European Union (EU).
Ford has submitted a patent application to develop autonomous police cars. It is a patent that has not yet been granted but demonstrates Ford’s intentions in how to break into the autonomous vehicle market.
On 2-3 May 2018, representatives of 11 different organisations (from academia, industry, civil society, standards bodies, and ethics committees) from six European countries met in Brussels to launch the EU-funded SHERPA project which will examine how smart information systems (SIS), (i.e., the combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data analytics) impact ethics and human rights.
Japanese commercial drone service company Terra Drone has commercialised an Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) system for the first time in Korea.
Netlaw Media, the organiser of Europe’s largest legal and legal technology events, has helped launch a new group which aims to promote Diversity and Excellence in the Legal Technology and IT Security sectors. The new group is known as DELTAS.
Artesian Solutions, the leading AI-powered B2B business intelligence and insight provider, today announced its commitment to helping its sales, relationship management, business development and customer success users comply with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), which came into effect on 25th May.
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