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Voters Rejected Data Centers in 40 of 41 Local Ballot Measures. Statehouses Are the Next Front for AI and Privacy Rules
The clearest verdict on artificial intelligence in Tuesday’s midterm elections did not come from a Senate race.
Lyft’s $1.8 Million CCPA Settlement: If Signing Up Takes One Tap, Opting Out Can’t Take Five
Open the Lyft app and you can have a car on the way in about three taps.
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Canada’s Privacy Commissioner Wants Five Changes to Bill C-22. What the Lawful Access Bill Means for Service Providers
Canada’s Privacy Commissioner, Philippe Dufresne, told senators on November 2 that the federal government’s lawful access bill is better than it was…
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Who Defrosted Europe’s Supermarkets? Inside the EU’s Response and the Russia Attribution Question
Two waves of attacks on supermarket refrigeration in under a month have turned a strange retail incident into a question for European…
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Google DeepMind Staff Want Out of Lifetime Gag Clauses. Whistleblower Law Covers Less Than They Need
Some of the people who build Google’s most advanced AI models have signed employment contracts that bar them from criticizing the company…
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Democrats Take Congress: The Committee Chairs and AG Wins That Will Shape Privacy and AI Oversight in 2027
Democrats won control of both the House and the Senate in Tuesday’s midterm elections, and the result changes who sets the agenda…
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OpenAI Hires Former Army Secretary Dan Driscoll. What Its Defense Push Means for Government Data
OpenAI has hired Dan Driscoll, who served as the 26th Secretary of the U.S.
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The White House Found 60 Pages on How It Vets Frontier AI. It Released None of Them
The federal government’s process for reviewing powerful AI models before release is now on paper, and a court-supervised search has found it.
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Wells Fargo Wants Proof You Fired Your AI Agent. Federal Payments Law Hasn’t Caught Up
Wells Fargo customers who hand an AI agent their online banking login will soon carry a new obligation: if they want the…
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Dutch Regulator Warns Debt Collectors Their AI May Already Be Making Prohibited Decisions
The Dutch data protection authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP), has told the country’s debt collection industry that its growing use of algorithms…
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Hackers Defrosted Supermarket Freezers Across Europe Overnight. It’s the Second Wave in a Month
Supermarket managers in at least seven European countries started Monday, November 2, by throwing away food.
Grounding the Wiretap Wave: How Kronenberger Rosenfeld Defends Businesses Against Mounting CIPA Claims
In recent years, corporate compliance officers and digital marketing teams across the United States have found themselves contending with an unexpected legal…