Laura Kim, Jayne Ponder, and Marissa Uri of Covington and Burling write: On October 22, 2026, the Governor of Pennsylvania signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act (Senate Bill 806) (“Act”) into law. The Act joins a growing number of state laws focused on the use of AI in advertising. However, unlike the laws in...

NEW YORK—The AFT and the United Federation of Teachers today announced a legally binding agreement with Anthropic that makes AI safety, privacy and transparency standards enforceable in thousands of U.S. K-12 schools. The national AI Safety and Privacy Standard for Schools automatically applies to Anthropic’s existing agreements with school districts using Claude for Teachers and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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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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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...