As part of NIST’s recent mandate to formalize AI Testing set forth in President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on AI, NIST recently released a testbed called Dioptra that can be utilized to conduct evaluations to assess AI developers’ claims about their systems’ performance. Dioptra helps users identify attacks that would…
For some time the position under English law relating to the recovery of liquidated damages from a contractor as penalty for late delivery has been unclear where the contract terminates before the contractor completes the work. Welcome clarity has now been provided by the Supreme Court in the case of…
Toll-free telephone numbers celebrated their 50th birthday this year (frankly, without much fanfare). These numbers allow callers to reach businesses without being charged for the call. When long distance calling was expensive, these numbers were enticing marketing tools used by businesses to encourage customer calls and provide a single number for nationwide…
Imagine dialing 911 and hearing an automated voice tell you that what you have dialed is not a valid number; or reaching a 911 call center only to have emergency personnel dispatched to the wrong location. In response to such problems, the FCC yesterday released a Notice of Inquiry (NOI)…
A number of major carriers have suffered high-impact IT events in the past several months. Estimates of losses in these cases have exceeded £100m. This is on top of (no doubt significant) remedial costs, reductions in share price and reputational damage. Such high-impact events are, in theory, unlikely to occur—the…
Global Sourcing attorney Sarah Atkinson, who are based in Pillsbury’s London office, have recently published the article, The payment services market under the eye of the regulator , in Banking Technology. The article considers criticisms of the payment services industry and how the new Payment Services Regulator is hoping to…