Lindsey Tonsager, Jenna Zhang, and Irene Kim of Covington and Burling summarize some recent bills signed into law. From their article: Companion Chatbots. Adam’s Law (SB 1119) requires operators of a “companion chatbot” to determine the age of users consistent with the Digital Age Assurance Act and imposes a series of obligations before making a...

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Brian O’Donovan reports: Tech giant Google has been fined €403m by the Data Protection Commission (DPC) over the processing of location data. Under data protection rules, such information must be processed in a lawful, fair and transparent manner. The DPC said that its investigation into Google found failures in this regard meaning that people could...

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Anthony Kimery reports: A relatively small U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contract has revealed unusually specific details about a little-known Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) program that centrally manages the agency’s nationwide location tracking operations. ICE awarded Ensurity Mobile Corp. a $135,000 sole-source purchase order last week for specialized devices for HSI’s Technical Operations unit....

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Ashley Belanger reports: On Tuesday, two survivors of child sex abuse accused the Justice Department of failing to notify dozens of victims found in Jeffrey Epstein’s massive collection of child sex images. In a proposed class action, survivors explained that Epstein apparently started collecting child sex images in the 1990s, many of which the DOJ...

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Yogev Toby reports: Meet the Instagram follower that may never stop looking at your feed: the Boston Police Department. The department this summer started using new artificial intelligence software that combs through social media looking for possible threats and information helpful to investigations, a city report revealed this week. The software, dubbed LifeRaft, offers tools...

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Samantha Rupe reports: The Center for Reproductive Rights has filed a lawsuit challenging Oklahoma abortion laws on behalf of two women who were denied abortion care after receiving fatal fetal diagnoses. Magon Hoffman and Sheena Hamlin said they were forced to leave Oklahoma to obtain care after learning their pregnancies would not result in surviving...

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Meghan O’Connor and Candice Andalia of Quarles write: California is drawing a hard line: artificial intelligence may schedule a therapy appointment, but it may not conduct one. Licensed professionals who allow AI to make independent therapeutic decisions, interact directly with patients, or detect emotions and mental states may face fines of up to $10,000 per...

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Jon Brodkin reports: The Boston city government abandoned Flock Safety’s license-plate reader cameras after the company shared data nationwide in violation of a contract provision, according to city officials. “We have actually abandoned Flock,” Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said in her monthly “Ask the Mayor” segment on GBH News last week. Wu made the comment...

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Dan Cooper, Jadzia Pierce, Kristof Van Quathem, Atli Stannard, Anna Sophia Oberschelp de Meneses, Diego Bonomo, John Bowers, Sam Jungyun Choi, and Laura Schukraft of Covington and Burling write: In recent months, children’s online safety and privacy have moved to the top of the EU’s digital agenda. The European Commission is expected to outline its...

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Rindala Alajaji and Dave Maass write: Here’s a riddle: Why did a Goshen Police Department officer search 6,474 automated license plate reader (ALPR) networks, representing data from 82,413 cameras, on May 7, 2025? If your answer is “I don’t know,” it turns out you’re 100% correct. The officer left the letters “idk” in the search...

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September 14, 2026 Marks Largest Known Seizure of AI-Generated Celebrity Deepfake Websites To Date Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., today announced the Office’s seizure of 12 domain names of illegal websites used for unlawfully disseminating, publishing, and selling non-consensual celebrity “deepfake” videos. Individuals under investigation allegedly used artificial-intelligence (“AI”) image and video creation...

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Joseph J. Lazzarotti of JacksonLewis writes: On September 2, 2026, Delaware’s Governor signed House Bill (HB) 380 and HB 381. HB 380 amends the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act (DPDPA), which was enacted in 2023 and became effective January 1, 2025. HB 381 separately amends Delaware’s computer security breach notification law. In short, what changes...

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Jason Parham reports: We’ve all been there. You meet someone new on a dating app, start to envision a life together, only to wonder: Is the person actually who they say they are? It’s an experience that has led many singles, sometimes out of concern or just genuine curiosity, to prescreen dates by tracing their...

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Nicholas Boyle, Claire Kermond, and Alexandra Moore of White & Case write: On August 31, 2026, the Australian Government released a Privacy Reform – Consultation Paper (the Consultation Paper) and an exposure draft of the Privacy Amendment (Personal Data Protection Bill) 2026 (Exposure Draft) detailing proposed changes to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Privacy...

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Sanjana Karanth reports: In a setback for the Trump administration, a federal appeals court has upheld a previous ruling preventing the Internal Revenue Service from sharing taxpayer information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Tuesday’s unanimous, three-judge ruling reaffirms a lower-court decision from November that blocked the IRS from sharing such information with ICE. Last spring,...

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Roxanne Libatique reports: A data breach affecting more than one million students, parents, and teachers across Australia and New Zealand has produced one of the clearest test cases the Australian cyber insurance market has seen for how patch-management obligations in policy wordings translate into real claims consequences. Online mathematics platform Mathspace confirmed on September 6,...

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Brian Dolinar writes: A growing movement has been campaigning against surveillance cameras from companies like Flock Safety, which allow local police to gather mass surveillance data, often citing the possibility of misuse of that data. But for years police have steadily been building a digital infrastructure with personal information on people with criminal backgrounds in...

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Biometric Update reports: Twenty-five years after the 9/11 Commission called for a biometric system capable of tracking foreign nationals entering and leaving the U.S., the House Intelligence Committee says the government still has not finished the job and is urging Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to expand biometric collection at land borders so it can...

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Jason Koebler has been all over Flock. He has also reported: The Texas sheriff’s office that used Flock to search more than 80,000 cameras nationwide for a woman who had a self-administered abortion used Axon’s Draft One AI tool to help write a police report about the incident, documents shared with 404 Media show. The tool was...

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DutchNews.nl reports: The Dutch’ healthcare inspectorate has found that the country’s only online abortion service fell short on its duties for care, but will let it keep operating after the site agreed to change its practices. Thuisabortus.nl, which launched in March, was the first service in the Netherlands to let women get the abortion pill prescribed...

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