ROUNDTABLE: The Data Privacy Conundrum in the Digital world

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SPEAKERS:

Wolfram

Thomas

Senior Director and Patent Counsel
Qualcomm

Sheena

Jacob

Partner and Head of Intellectual Property, Technology, Media, IP & Competition
CMS Holborn Asia

Jan

Vanbeckevoort

Legal Counsel
imec

Tobias

Baus

Salary Partner
Taylor Wessing Germany

Pam

Cox

Partner and Chair of IP Transactions
Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

Dave

Lee

Partner
Acecue LLP

Abstract:

The advent of unprecedented technological advancements and the augmented tendency to hinge on AI tools has exacerbated the legal complexities surrounding data protection and privacy issues in all arenas including licensing. The critical aspects that companies should consider are compliance to data protection laws, safeguarding of IP, usage rights and liability. It cannot be denied that data fed AI has grown substantially to become incredibly advanced and is now capable of making automated decisions based on subtle patterns inferred from data footprints left on the internet. Amounts of personal data floating also raise the risk of theft, cybersecurity, creation of fakes images and data breached such as phishing attacks, and malware.

Although AI is part of our daily lives how it operates to leverage content is not clear and laws to regulate the same are yet not streamlined in many jurisdictions. Hence, adoption of measures to ensure transparency has become a vital concern for companies.  For this roundtable discussion, we can navigate through the associated challenges and risks while rendering a comparative analysis of regulatory landscape to protect data in various jurisdictions.