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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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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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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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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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...

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...

Joke Bodewits and Julian B. Flamant of Hogan Lovells Cadwalader write: On 13 July 2026, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (“AP”) published a practical self-assessment tool (“Tool”) and corresponding guidance document (“Guidance”) on generative AI systems. The Guidance outlines the AP’s expectations under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) across the generative AI lifecycle, while...

From Hunton.com: On July 6, 2026, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed Senate Bill 315, the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act (the “Act”), into law, making Illinois the third state, after California and New York, to enact comprehensive safety and transparency requirements for developers of the largest AI systems. The  Act positions Illinois as an aggressive player...

Oh, FFS. Ravie Lakshmanan reports: Meta has announced that its new artificial intelligence (AI) model Muse Image lets people use public Instagram posts and reels to generate AI content, and it’s enabled by default. “You can also @-mention Instagram accounts in the Meta AI app to bring specific Instagram profiles right into your images,” the...

This arrived in my email today. I do have a ChatGPT account and checked the header and path to make sure it was not just a phishing attempt. The email appears to be a genuine email from ChatGPT/OpenAI. The email says, “Share your travel route and timing, then get a simple plan and pre-drive checks....

Michael J. Madderra, Sydney Reed Swanson, and Roshni Edalur of Morgan Lewis write: AI is increasingly being used to support diagnostics, medical imaging, and remote patient monitoring. While these tools can improve efficiency and expand access to care, they also raise important questions about privacy, transparency, bias, patient consent, and responsibility for clinical decisions. Key...

The use of AI technologies has added to the risk of harm and privacy violations. The use of AI has also helped people file complaints with the data protection regulator. We may need a “It’s a blessing… and a curse” file for AI stories. Brian O’Donovan reports: The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has described as...

Zack Whittaker reports: Anthropic may ask Claude users to verify their age and identity by uploading their government-issued documents, according to a new version of the company’s privacy policy. The AI giant says the move was to allow users to appeal having their account flagged for potentially fraudulent activity rather than outright banning them, but...

Josh Richman writes: Governments must not adopt emerging and powerful AI technologies without also adopting strong and clear safeguards to protect Constitutional rights, EFF Senior Policy Analyst Dr. Matthew Guariglia testified to the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection. During the hearing on “The AI Security Landscape: How Frontier Models, Agentic AI,...

Jared Perlo reports: The long-running fight to rein in the government’s power to search Americans’ phone calls, emails and text messages without a warrant has gained new urgency on Capitol Hill over concerns that AI will supercharge state surveillance. Lawmakers are currently jockeying over reforms to a key law that enables warrantless monitoring of Americans’...

Steve Alder reports: Tempus AI, a publicly traded healthcare artificial intelligence company, is facing multiple class action lawsuits over the alleged unauthorized collection and disclosure of genetic testing results, which were derived from genetic testing by Ambry Genetics Corporation (Ambry Genetics). Tempus AI used Ambry Genetics’ genetic database to train its AI models. Tempus AI...

Cyrus Farivar reports: Several Californians sued Sutter Health and MemorialCare this week over allegations that an AI transcription tool was used to record them without their consent, in violation of state and federal law. The proposed class-action lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco, states that, within the past six months, the plaintiffs received...