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How Car Accident Attorneys Help Determine Liability in Car Accidents

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Being in a car accident is difficult and stressful, especially if you suffer severe injuries, emotional distress, and financial struggles. The situation can be overwhelming when you must determine the party at fault.

It is crucial to determine who’s at fault in a car accident. Primarily, it can impact the compensation you get from the other party.

In most car accidents, determining liability is not an easy feat. Besides, the motor vehicle statutes state by state may make the process even more complicated by considering issues like partial fault. [Read more…] about How Car Accident Attorneys Help Determine Liability in Car Accidents

The 5 Kinds of Contracts Every AI or Robotics Company Should Have

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The AI/robotics world is still a relatively new one, and therefore the laws governing their usage are still in the process of being formed. Nonetheless, it is critical that contracts for AI/robotics be utilized in their sale/usage as these machines require the same type of protection that other services do.

Which contracts need to be signed, though? Well, there are five major types that every company in the industry should make note of so as not to fall victim to data leaks, sub-par services, or other unexpected problems. [Read more…] about The 5 Kinds of Contracts Every AI or Robotics Company Should Have

Ethics and robotics: A match made in heaven for risk management?

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By Lee Bristow, CTO of Phinity

If your business uses third parties to support core operations (and most do, from SMEs to corporates), you’ll know they need to access essential data. Without this, they can’t deliver the services you require.

Therefore, alongside this new relationship between you and your third party suppliers, comes a new responsibility for you.

You now have an ethical and legal onus to protect the customer information entrusted to you. [Read more…] about Ethics and robotics: A match made in heaven for risk management?

With Human Controls Abolished, Only a Few Hurdles Remain in Making Automation Legally Secure

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One of the greatest barriers to the true stress testing of automated devices is the need for human control.

According to Reuters, however, US regulators have now eliminated the need for human control in automated devices, such as cars, paving the way for significant future developments.

But the removal of human control does not remove total legal liability, and there are a few legal hurdles yet left that will need to be addressed before automation innovation can start to progress quickly. [Read more…] about With Human Controls Abolished, Only a Few Hurdles Remain in Making Automation Legally Secure

Do we really need a professional translator for instruction manuals?

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Whether we like it or not, it is a well-established fact that we need instruction manuals. Indeed, in some instances it may be a legal requirement for the manufacturer of the product to supply one.

In fact, numerous directives in Europe, the US and much of the rest of the world make it compulsory to provide information, most often in the form of an instruction manual. [Read more…] about Do we really need a professional translator for instruction manuals?

SICK guide book: 6 Steps to a Safe Machine

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SICK Sensor Intelligence, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of sensor systems for industrial applications, is making available a comprehensive guide of machine safety.

Weighing in at almost 200 pages, 6 Steps to a Safe Machine goes through all the details of providing a safe working environment for employees.

Starting with laws and standards, the guide goes through risk assessment and safe design, and ends with subjects such as machine validation and deployment. [Read more…] about SICK guide book: 6 Steps to a Safe Machine

Essential Legal Issues Associated With Web Scraping

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“Web scraping”, also called crawling or spidering, is the automated gathering of data from someone else’s website.

Scraping is an essential part of how the Internet functions, and it has traditionally been the backbone of many companies’ marketing, lead generation, and market intelligence efforts.

In fact, many online services, large and small, use scraping to build their databases, all of which are worth hundreds of billions of dollars. This article will answer the question – is web scraping legal? [Read more…] about Essential Legal Issues Associated With Web Scraping