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Recommended readings on AI and privacy

By: Dissent
9 November 2026 at 10:44
Law professor and privacy law scholar Dan Solove has made two short essays available to everyone: The AI Inference Problem in Privacy Law AI inferences undermine privacy laws. Whether they recognize inferences or not, privacy laws are in a bind. Rethinking Privacy of the Mind:  Why Protecting Neural Data Is Insufficient Is protecting neural data...
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Former Meta Exec Shreds the Company’s Muse AI Agent as “Insane” Privacy Risk

By: Dissent
7 November 2026 at 11:04
Victor Tangermann reports: After decades of establishing itself as one of the worst guardians of personal data, Meta raised eyebrows this year by encouraging users to hand over their email logins and credit card information to its new AI agent, Muse. The tool, a privacy nightmare anthropomorphized by a furry apparition, can crawl through years...

Google threatened to block search function in schools. NC schools seek answers

By: Dissent
7 November 2026 at 10:01
From the “sounded-like-extortion-to-us department,” T. Keung Hui reports: Triangle school districts are trying to get more information about how they’ll be impacted by Google’s plan to change access to Google Search in schools. Google set off a firestorm this week when it initially announced that it would turn off access to Google Search for schools...

NT Health issues ban on Meta Glasses as part of review into privacy policy

By: Dissent
6 November 2026 at 09:18
ABC News reports: NT Health has issued a ban on smart glasses at all of its clinical sites, as part of an internal department review into its privacy policies prompted by a breach at Royal Darwin Hospital earlier this month. The breach involved a medical observer, Dr Neda Mogharehabed, who was visiting Royal Darwin Hospital...

Elementary School Children Using Laptops Schools Gain Direct Control Over Google AI Search Tools

By: Dissent
3 November 2026 at 17:28
Jesse Jacobs reports: K-12 school district administrators now have the ability to restrict artificial intelligence features directly within Google Search across student devices. Digital safety company Lightspeed Systems introduced Google Search AI Controls within its web-filtering platform, enabling schools to block Google AI Overview summaries and its conversational AI Mode. […] Under the new tool,...

A RIZAP Employee Uploaded 726 People’s Health Records to a Personal AI Chat

By: Dissent
29 October 2026 at 15:58
Rowan Sterling reports: On 20 August 2026 an employee of RIZAP Inc., the Japanese fitness and health-guidance group, was pulling records out of the health-guidance management system it operates for insurers when the data went into a generative AI service on a personal account the company had never approved. The records covered 726 members of...

Snapshot for Healthcare Employers: What AI Glasses Mean for Patient Privacy and Recording Consent

By: Dissent
29 October 2026 at 15:52
Elysse Gorney and Brett Owens of Fisher Phillips write: An employee walks into an exam room wearing AI glasses and asks the device to summarize the visit. Before the encounter ends, the patient’s description of symptoms, medical history, and treatment discussion could be transmitted to an outside AI platform. Without robust policies and procedures in...

A RIZAP Employee Uploaded 726 People’s Health Records to a Personal AI Chat

By: Dissent
29 October 2026 at 15:58
Rowan Sterling reports: On 20 August 2026 an employee of RIZAP Inc., the Japanese fitness and health-guidance group, was pulling records out of the health-guidance management system it operates for insurers when the data went into a generative AI service on a personal account the company had never approved. The records covered 726 members of...

Snapshot for Healthcare Employers: What AI Glasses Mean for Patient Privacy and Recording Consent

By: Dissent
29 October 2026 at 15:52
Elysse Gorney and Brett Owens of Fisher Phillips write: An employee walks into an exam room wearing AI glasses and asks the device to summarize the visit. Before the encounter ends, the patient’s description of symptoms, medical history, and treatment discussion could be transmitted to an outside AI platform. Without robust policies and procedures in...

AI Agent Posts Man’s Bank Balances and Exactly What He’s Spending His Money on in a Slack Work Channel

By: Dissent
12 October 2026 at 08:29
Victor Tangermann reports: It was only a matter of time until AI agents, bots that are being advertised as a way to stay on top of tedious tasks, started spilling their human overlords’ secrets. With the advent of tools like Meta’s Muse or OpenAI’s Dots, consumers are encouraged to hand over some highly sensitive information,...

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ChatGPT Health Wants You To Upload Your Medical Records — Cybersecurity Experts Are Begging You Not To Do That

By: Dissent
3 October 2026 at 08:24
Jillian Wilson reports: Think about your most personal information — your health diagnoses, medications you take, medical test results. And now think about uploading some of that sensitive information online. That’s exactly what ChatGPT Health, a new service from its parent company OpenAI, wants you to do. According to ChatGPT, medical questions are one of...

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AI in the Therapist’s Chair? California Says No—and Backs It Up With $10,000 Penalties

By: Dissent
17 September 2026 at 10:08
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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Manhattan D.A.’s Office Seizes Domains Of 12 Illegal Websites Selling AI-Generated “Deep Fakes”

By: Dissent
14 September 2026 at 16:42
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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Europe eyes battle over ‘pervert’ AI glasses

By: Dissent
13 September 2026 at 10:47
AFP reports: Calls are growing louder in Europe for action against “pervert” smart glasses after secretly filmed footage of girls and women appeared online — with a petition in Britain demanding a ban on their sale. Anyone wearing smart glasses can take photos, film videos, listen to music, make phone calls, translate text or interact...

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Texas Police Used AI to Write Report About Using Flock to Search for Woman Who Had Abortion

By: Dissent
4 September 2026 at 06:48
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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Dutch data protection agency advises Twitch users: opt out from sharing data with Amazon AI

By: Dissent
21 August 2026 at 08:19
From the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP), the Dutch data protection agency: The streaming platform Twitch announced that Amazon is using Twitch users’ personal data to train AI models. Users who do not want Amazon to use their streams, images and other personal data can now opt out from this feature. The Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP), the Dutch...

Singapore’s PDPC finalizes guidance on the use of personal data in generative AI

By: Dissent
1 August 2026 at 09:44
Charmian Aw, Ciara O’Leary, and Florence Seow of Hogan Lovells Cadwalader write: Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission (“PDPC”) has issued its final Advisory Guidelines on Use of Personal Data in Generative AI (“Guidelines”), marking a significant development in Singapore’s AI governance framework. The Guidelines provide long-awaited clarity on how the Personal Data Protection Act 2012...
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