Attorneys fearful of technology often argue that it offers no replacement for experienced legal judgment at any stage of a legal matter. Reed Smith’s recent launch of an online app to determine the applicability of data breach notification laws, Breach RespondeRS, makes the case that initial risk assessments are a part of legal expertise that can, and perhaps should, be automated and publicly available.
Mark Melodia, co-chairman of Reed Smith’s information technology, privacy and data security group, explained that he and co-chairman Paul Bond found themselves being somewhat methodical in their approach in initial assessments of data breach notification requirements, an approach which lends itself well to computer programming.
