by Staff at the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Technology
Federal Trade Commission
The FTC’s Tech Summit on AI[1] convened three panels that highlighted different layers of the AI tech stack: hardware and infrastructure, data and models, and consumer-facing applications. This third Quote Book is focused on consumer-facing applications. This post outlines the purpose of the quote book, a summary of the panel, and relevant topics and actions raised by the FTC.
by Michael Borgia and Tyler Bourke
Left to right: Michael Borgia and Tyler Bourke (photos courtesy of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP)
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia recently issued its highly anticipated ruling in the subpoena fight between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) and the law firm Covington & Burling LLP (“Covington”). On July 24, 2023, the court in SEC v. Covington[1] ordered the firm to comply in part with an SEC administrative subpoena that had been served on the firm in March of 2022 by providing the names of seven firm clients, the material nonpublic information of which had been compromised in a cyberattack on Covington’s information technology systems in November 2020.
by Luke Cass, Michael Clark, and Matthew Hickman
Left to right: Luke Cass, Michael Clark, and Matthew Hickman (photos courtesy of Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP)
Corporate criminal enforcement is a top priority for the Department of Justice.[1] As the number of corporate search warrants rise, so does the government’s use of taint, or filter, teams. A wave of recent caselaw addressing the procedure, role, and handling of taint teams along with potentially privileged material has varied among the circuits, leaving in its wake dramatically unsettled law.
This article discusses what taint teams are, recent circuit splits about them, and how the Supreme Court, the DOJ, and the ABA can, and should, address issues that impact one of the oldest privileges in western jurisprudence.