As an ERP software system attorney who negotiates contracts and litigates disputes, I’ve seen four things that can doom a newly-implemented or upgraded ERP software system: The user signing the vendor’s template contract, which is always one-sided and disadvantages the user, without negotiation, The vendor over-promising what will be delivered and what it can do;…
When police finally captured Joseph D’Angelo, the alleged Golden State Killer who had eluded arrest for decades, they used DNA evidence to track him down. The forensic team that finally pieced together enough information that led to D’Angelo’s arrest relied on law enforcement data bases. But few people realize that if they purchase a DNA…
Marcus Harris discusses the Cambridge Analytica shutdown in SC Media https://www.scmagazine.com/cambridge-analytica-shuts-down-twitter-defends-sale-of-data-to-firm/article/763108/
Marcus Harris Discusses in the Kansas Rual Messenger “Should Teens Be Given the Chance to Have Their Online Activity Wiped Clean?”
For at least a decade, Illinois has had the country’s toughest biometric privacy law on the books. The Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) prevents using fingerprints, iris scans and facial recognition software from being exploited for commercial purposes without an individual’s consent. Now Google’s parent, Alphabet Inc., is trying to defang BIPA by exempting photos…
As we wrote on April 18, 2018, protecting American intellectual property in China is a far bigger issue than the reasons Pres. Trump listed as to why he was imposing steep tariffs on a wide range of products produced in China. This point was reinforced a few days later when the American Chamber of Commerce…
On April 16, 2018, a select committee of the United Kingdom’s House of Lords issued a report on the ethical use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) titled AI in the UK: Ready, Willing and Able?. Among the recommendations, the Lords and Baronesses of Parliament’s upper house suggested that utilizing AI to improve commercial and industrial processes…
When President Trump announced a series of steep, punitive tariffs against China, much of the media’s attention was on how they will hurt American businesses and consumers the most. But alleged intellectual property theft by both private and state-owned enterprises in the P.R.C. has raised the ire of Washington for a long time. Chinese businesses…
See Transcript Below Kate/GoLocalLIVE: Marcus Harris is a software litigation attorney who is an expert on what’s been not only taking place in recent days, but I’m sure you’ve been keeping an eye on just how much information gathering Facebook has been doing since its inception. We have seen now the fallout with Cambridge Analytica,…
Canada’s New Data Protection Law Set To Be Effective Nov. 1 With so much attention focusing on the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) coming into force in Europe on May 25, 2018, few people are noticing that our friendly northern neighbors have a similar law coming this November. As a software licensing attorney whose clients…