Privacy

New York State has taken a step towards ensuring responsible and ethical use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in the public sector through its newly established Acceptable Use of Artificial Intelligence Technologies policy. This policy, issued by the New York State Office of Information Technology Services (ITS), aims to guide state government in leveraging AI … Read more

Let’s say you need to run sentiment analysis on a PII in dataset of reviews. You will use one of the pre-trained models offered by HuggingFace. There is only one problem: Your reviews contain names, addresses, and other Personal Identifiable Information (PII). What should you do? We can say what you shouldn’t do. Never send … Read more

South Korea Personal Information Protection Act was substantially revised in March of 2023. In addition, an Enforcement Decree was announced last November, which is scheduled to take effect on March 15, 2024. The sum of changes encompasses revised fines, strengthened rights of individuals in some areas and greater flexibility for processors in others. March 2024 … Read more

In mid-January 2024, Australia’s Minister for Industry and Science, Ed Husic, unveiled the government’s response to the Safe and Responsible AI in Australia consultation. The response, shaped by feedback from last year’s consultation on Australia Ai regulation, incorporates over 500 submissions from individuals as well as businesses. These submissions expressed enthusiasm for AI tools’ potential … Read more

On March 13, the European Parliament crossed another and (almost) the last hurdle for the EU AI Act to come into force. Anticipated to become law by May or June, it will see its provisions phased in: six months later, countries will be mandated to ban prohibited AI systems; one year later, regulations for general-purpose … Read more

In the age of rampant AI development, data protection laws are no longer a tick-box exercise but a cornerstone of responsible technology usage. The GDPR is undoubtedly the leader in this movement. Until recently, the legislative landscape in Canada, however, had been relatively uneventful for years. Quebec is now shaking things up! Its recently enacted … Read more

We asked ChatGPT five privacy questions covering the GDPR, HIPAA, and US and Canadian private sector privacy laws and evaluated its responses. We didn’t go easy on it, but ChatGPT hit it out of the park except, in two cases, when asked to provide accurate links to its resources. However, the resources were still easily … Read more

Although they hardly need an introduction, Salesforce is a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) service that allows businesses to efficiently connect with their customers, find prospects, close deals, automate marketing, develop apps, and analyze their data to draw out valuable insights. In this article we explore whether Canadian businesses subject to Quebec’s private sector privacy … Read more

Embeddings are an increasingly popular data science tool, used across the industry for various solutions. What are Embeddings? Embeddings essentially a numerical representation of data, used to determine the relationship (if any) between entities. For more information on embeddings, see here. One popular use for embeddings is to send content to LLMs that they haven’t … Read more

We are excited to share the details of our latest platform updates, which brings significant enhancements across various domains.  Enhancing PrivateGPT and UI Experience Our recent software update introduces significant enhancements, focusing on the PrivateGPT experience and user interface improvements. Here’s a summary of these updates: Customizable Conversation Roles We’ve added the functionality to define … Read more