Happy Techshow 2025
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AI
A California state senator has introduced a bill to ban “the false impersonation of another person in either their personal or official capacity with the intent to steal or defraud,” specifically targeting the use of deepfakes
This blog from Stanford Law School’s Codex goes into detail about the benefits and challenges of adopting AI agents for legal processes
Madison Square Garden banned a ticketholder from a concert at the facilty based on facial recognition software and the fact that he designed a protest shirt back in 2017 worn by someone else who was kicked out of a NY Knicks game
A digital journalism center done a deep dive comparing eight GenAI search tools on how they handle retrieving and displaying content from news sites
AI Fabrication Follies
Puerto Rico Soccer League NFP, Corp. v. Federacion Puertorriquena de Futbol [Docket | (Document #187)]
Salyer v. Salyer (Ky. Court of Appeals) [Opinion]
Sanders v. United States [Docket | Memorandum & Order]
Data Privacy
The Federal Trade Commission’s chair, Andrew Ferguson, announced that any buyer for 23andMe must keep the promises the company made in the past regarding protection of users’ “personal information and biological samples” [Ars Technica | FTC letter]
Traveling internationally soon? A guide to handling data protection for your devices while crossing borders [Wired ($)]
France’s anti-trust agency has fined Apple US$162.4 million over the App Tracking Transparency provisions of the App Store
From The Guardian [$]: “The Italian government approved the use of a sophisticated surveillance tool to spy on members of a humanitarian NGO because they were allegedly deemed a possible threat to national security, MPs have heard”
From the BBC: “Researchers have discovered nearly 1.5 million pictures from specialist dating apps – many of which are explicit – being stored online without password protection, leaving them vulnerable to hackers and extortionists”
Long Reads(ish)
Stanford Law School’s CODEX project have a 3-part blog series on legal issues surrounding AI agents and what can happen when GenAI can perform transactions on behalf of users [Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3]
Elizabeth Morris and Nathaniel Lucek of Hodgson Russ discuss AI’s potential impact on trade secrets in the most recent episode of The Semi-Interesting Podcast [Semi Interesting Podcast homepage | Youtube]
Yona, G., Aharoni, R. and Geva, M., 2024. Can large language models faithfully express their intrinsic uncertainty in words?. arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.16908
Schiff, D. S., Kelley, S., & Camacho Ibáñez, J. (2024). The emergence of artificial intelligence ethics auditing. Big Data & Society, 11(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241299732 (Original work published 2024)