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A small newsletter about legaltech
AI
A customer in California is suing Domino’s Pizza for recording customer phone calls and using them to train an AI-enhanced voice assistant [Bloomberg Law ($) | Docket]
Did we dodge a bullet in the form of election deepfakes and AI disinformation campaigns?
The White House has issued a memorandum for increasing AI usage in the federal government “especially in the context of national security systems (NSS), while protecting human rights, civil rights, civil liberties, privacy, and safety in AI-enabled national security activities”
Common Sense Media has released a guide for parents on AI companions and relationships
From The Hill: “More than 11,000 actors and artists signed a statement labeling the unlicensed use of creative works for artificial intelligence training a “major unjust threat” to creators”
A large hospital network has started using an AI tool and training medical professionals on how to use it for hiring decisions, handling patient data, and administrative tasks [404 Media ($)]
ProPublica does a deep dive into a company who contracts with insurance companies to approve or deny authorizations for healthcare, using an AI-backed algorithm
A survey by CNBC of CTOs and CISOs found that almost 80% of the companies have deployed Microsoft CoPilot to at least some of their employees
Data Privacy
Using Strava to track fitness efforts can end up giving away sensitive location data, including the locations of world leaders and their security personnel
The California Privacy Protection Agency has announced a “public investigative sweep” to confirm that data brokers are complying with the state’s Delete Act