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SPOTlIGHT On: CyBEr SECUrITy, dATA PrIvACy

& EMErGInG TECHnOlOGIES

The Future Awaits You!

Enroll in the Newest CMBA Section

BY CRAIG A. MARVINNEY & WILLIAM H. BERGLuND COMMITTEE SPOTlIGHT

If you don’t like change, you really vehicles to our streets via artificial Cleveland area to these developments;
won’t like extinction!,” declared intelligence. Title companies contemplate 2) Foster, develop, and share knowledge
Beth Mooney, Chairman and CEO converting chains of title to blockchains of excellence and best practices at the highest
of KeyCorp with ATT Technology’s immutable permanence and transparency. levels among lawyers already developing
‘‘CEO, John Donovan on stage Insurers crunch massive amounts of data to expertise in these areas; and 3) Work better
at Cleveland’s December 2018 exciting better predict risk and assess costs. Machine with clients and communities to educate the
Blockland Solutions Conference. The truth bias skews facial recognition programming. corporate and individual citizens of Greater
of Bob Dylan’s refrain “The Times They Are Our profession is being swept into this Cleveland in the law applicable to these areas
A-Changin’” is now. swiftly changing tempest. We lawyers are as these economies and industries develop.
As Dylan wrote those 1963 lyrics, the word asked to develop regulations, standards, case Be informed, learn, and share ideas as
“cybersecurity” was decades away from first law, and warnings as clients pull us deeper this new section organizes into one of the
use. Artificial Intelligence became a 1968 into practice areas that did not exist five or CMBA’s most active and vibrant sections.
SciFi catch phrase from Stanley Kubrick’s ten years ago. Every lawyer today, no matter Watch for and attend our upcoming monthly
epic “2001: A Space Odyssey” film as the what their practice area must keep abreast programs and meetings. Be available as
computer HAL took over an interplanetary of these constantly developing concepts and a speaker or writer to meet needs and
spacecraft. ‘Blockchain’ was a word mistaken vocabularies to assist their clients. Entire demands. Join us by emailing Bill and/or me
in high school physics classes in block & communities beckon lawyers to educate at william.berglund@tuckerellis.com and
tackle rope lifting problems. On February 27, them on these latest and newest technologies cmarvinney@walterhav.com, respectively.
1995, Newsweek magazine featured frequent and related rules while other communities
contributor Clifford Stoll, Ph.D., addressing seek us to develop the very laws being taught.
a visionary future of “telecommuting Our Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association Craig Marvinney is a partner with Walter |
workers, interactive libraries and multimedia is addressing this growth head on. Unique Haverfield whose practice is focused in Intellectual
classrooms,” “electronic town meetings and in Ohio, and almost alone among local bar Property, Medical Device, Product Liability and
virtual communities” where “commerce and associations throughout the United States, Insurance Litigation as well as areas of Cyber
business will shift from offices and malls the CMBA formed this new section of law, Security and Emerging Technologies. Bill Berglund
to networks and modems.” Stoll strongly the Cyber Security, Data Privacy & Emerging is counsel with Tucker Ellis whose practice
dismissed this: “Baloney!” Technologies Section, asking us to co-chair focuses on Medical Privacy, Data Security, and
And yet today, here we are. Data is a and develop it for the good of the bar and Compliance, Class Actions, and Complex Medical
st
currency of the 21 Century. The Internet our community. Over the last two months, Device and Product Liability Litigation. Together
of Things sends heartbeat data from our section sponsored or co-sponsored well they co-chair the CMBA Cyber Security, Data
wristwatches to cardiologists. Municipalities, attended and excellent programs such as Privacy & Emerging Technologies Section.
service providers, and retailers keep “Blockchain, IoT and AI, Oh My!”, and “Are the
Personally Identifiable Information Russians Really Our Friends?,” a discussion of GET EnGAGEd!
regarding taxpayers and customers, thereby investigation and impact of recent newsworthy
constantly suffering the consequences of hacks. BusinessTech 2018, and Blockland For information on how to join
major hacks, phishing and malware that steal Solutions and the Legal Node for Blockland a section or committee, contact
this PII, converting it to nefarious purposes. Cleveland have all seen our burgeoning impact. Samantha Pringle at (216) 696-3525 x
Deep machine learning and virtual neural Three points of focus for this new section 2008 or springle@clemetrobar.org.
networks of computers bring autonomous are: 1) Educate lawyers in the Greater
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