“Today, the biggest risk to our privacy and our security has become the threat of unintended inferences, due to the power of increasingly widespread machine-learning techniques. Once we generate data, anyone who possesses enough of it can be a threat, posing new dangers to both our privacy and our security.” Andrew Burt – Managing partner at bnh.ai , Chief legal officer at Immuta
Source: Harvard Business Review
About Andrew Burt:
Andrew is Managing Partner at bnh.ai, a boutique law firm focused on AI and analytics, and Chief Legal Officer at Immuta. Previously, Andrew served as Special Advisor for Policy to the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cyber Division, where he served as lead author on the FBI’s after action report for the 2014 attack on Sony, among other assignments.
A former reporter, Andrew has published articles on the intersection between law and technology in The New York Times, The Financial Times, and Harvard Business Review, where he is a regular contributor. His first book, American Hysteria: The Untold Story of Mass Political Extremism in the United States (Lyons Press, 2015), was called “a must read book dealing with a topic few want to tackle” by Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Andrew holds a JD from Yale Law School and a BA with first-class honors from McGill University. He is a term-member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Washington, D.C. and Virginia State Bars, and a certified cyber incident response handler.
