The provision of medical aesthetic treatment has expanded rapidly in recent years. The Scottish market is becoming increasingly competitive with access to cosmetic treatments at GP surgeries, dental surgeries, aesthetic clinics, medi-spas and beauty salons. Medical, dental and nursing professionals are entering the market at an unprecedented rate, sometimes as an adjunct to their current medical or dental services.
The concept of artificial intelligence certainly isn’t new, but when Alan Turing wrote his paper on Computing Machinery and Intelligence over 70 years ago, he probably didn’t think that AI would be composing songs and creating artworks. Nonetheless, more and more exhibitions are taking place featuring work generated by AI – some of it prize winning. The now rapid growth in AI created “artistic” work raises interesting questions about the creative value of the work and more prosaic questions about who actually owns the work and the intellectual property (IP) in that work.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) has updated its guidance in relation to Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) after requests from UK industries to provide clearer guidelines on data protection compliant AI in the wake of the continued adoption of new technologies across various sectors.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has recently published guidance for game designers providing tips on how to best comply with their “Children’s Code”, which applies to those who process the data of persons aged 18 and under. The Children’s Commissioner for England estimated that 93% of children and young people in the UK play video games of some description and the ICO estimate that 1 in 5 children in the UK access the internet “on a regular basis”.
‘Dogs Die in Hot Cars’ were a band from St Andrews in the early 2000s. This e-update has nothing to do with them, but it does concern a case which involved a dog, some deaths, and a very hot car.
