India McKinney of EFF writes: Earlier this week, both the House Committee on the Judiciary (HJC) and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) marked up two very different bills (H.R. 6570 – Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act in HJC, and HR 6611, the FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023 in HPSCI),…
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Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocks woman from emergency abortion
Sickening. Disgusting. Infuriating. PogoWasRight can’t even find the right words to express how despicable this situation is. No woman should have to go to court to get permission to get healthcare that she and her doctor believe is necessary. No woman should have to risk being left infertile because some people she doesn’t even know…
EU Strikes Deal to Regulate ChatGPT, AI Tech in Landmark Act
Jillian Deutsch reports: The European Union reached a hard-fought deal on what is poised to become the most comprehensive regulation of artificial intelligence in the western world. […] After more than 33 hours of negotiations this week, delegates from the European Commission, the European Parliament and 27 member countries agreed to a set of controls…
Disciplinary judge approves lawyer’s suspension for using ChatGPT to generate fake cases
Michael Karlik A Colorado lawyer has received a suspension for using artificial intelligence to generate fake case citations in a legal brief and then lying about it. […] In the agreed-upon narrative by Crabill and attorney regulators filed with the office of the presiding disciplinary judge, Crabill’s firm took on a client in April who…
Can an AI chatbot be convicted of an illegal wiretap? A case against Gap’s Old Navy may answer that
NBC reports: Can an AI be convicted of illegal wiretapping? That’s a question currently playing out in court for Gap’s Old Navy brand, which is facing a lawsuit alleging that its chatbot participates in illegal wiretapping by logging, recording and storing conversations. The suit, filed in the Central District of California, alleges that the chatbot “convincingly…
Meta Lawsuit a ‘Serious Attack’ on FTC Enforcement Authority
Tonya Riley and Katie Arcieri report: Meta Platforms Inc.‘s latest salvo targeting the US Federal Trade Commission is also the latest to challenge a federal agency’s enforcement actions by questioning the constitutionality of its structure. Meta sued the FTC on Thursday, asking for an immediate halt on the commission’s efforts to modify their 2020 privacy settlement. The…