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AI Legal News Summer Roundup: Edition 3

August 10th, 2024Hisyu0 Comments

White & Case Tech Newsflash Welcome to the third edition of our AI Legal News Summer Roundup! After five class actions were filed between June 28 and July 11 (as reported on in our first edition of this series), on July 21, another class action lawsuit was filed against Microsoft, this time concerning personal data collected by Microsoft using the “Edge” web browser (see Update 1) and on July 28, we also saw what we believe is one of the first U.S. patent infringement cases directly targeting technologies that service large language models and generative AI, when Korean company, FriendliAI,…

France’s parliament officially approves law to enshrine abortion rights in the Constitution

March 6th, 2024Hisyu0 Comments

Lawmakers voted in a joint session of parliament on Monday to guarantee abortion access by adding a line to the Constitution. ADVERTISEMENT French lawmakers voted officially on Monday in favor of adding a line guaranteeing the “freedom” to have an abortion to the country’s Constitution. The symbolic vote required three-fifths of both houses of parliament to vote in favor of making the change official with both MPs and Senators agreeing on the same legislative text. There were 780 votes in favor and 72 against, easily passing the threshold of 512 votes that were needed. The vote was the final step…