On Monday, May 19, 2025, President Donald Trump signed the “Take It Down Act” into law. The Act, which unanimously passed the Senate and cleared the House in a 409-2 vote, criminalizes the distribution of intimate images of someone without their consent. Lawmakers from both parties have commented that the law is long
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AI Service Provider Faces Class Actions Over Catholic Health Data Breach
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
AI service provider Serviceaide Inc. faces two proposed class action lawsuits from a data breach tied to Catholic Health System Inc., a nonprofit hospital network in Buffalo, New York. The breach reportedly exposed the personal information of over 480,000 individuals, including patients and employees.
Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of…
Employees Hiding Use of AI Tools at Work
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity
A new study by Ivanti illustrates that one out of three workers secretly use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the workplace. They do so for varying reasons, including “I like a secret advantage,” “My job might be reduced/cut,” “My employer has no AI usage policy,” “My boss might give me more work,” “I don’t want…
California Privacy Protection Agency Releases Updated Regulations: What’s Next?
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Data Privacy
This month, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) Board discussed updates to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) draft regulations related to cybersecurity audits, risk assessments, automatic decision-making technology (ADMT), and insurance.
The CPPA received comments on the first draft of the regulations between November 22, 2024, and February 19, 2025, and the feedback was…
Generative AI Training may not Qualify for the Fair Use Defense
By Daniel Lass on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
Last week, the Copyright Office released the third and final part of its report exploring copyright-related issues posed by artificial intelligence (AI). Unlike the first two parts, the third was released as a “pre-publication” version. It was published less than a day after Dr. Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, was fired by President Trump…
Workado Settles With FTC Over Alleged Misrepresentations of AI Accuracy
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a press release this week announcing that it settled with Workado over alleged misrepresentations of its ability to detect whether content was generated by artificial intelligence (AI) or humans.
Workado’s AI Content Detector was marketed to consumers as a tool to decipher whether online content was generated by AI…
Threat Actors Use AI to Launch Identity Theft Scams
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
Identity theft will continue to rise in 2025. According to the Better Business Bureau of Missouri (BBB), it received over 16,000 identity theft complaints in the past three years. Scammers are “increasingly using advanced tactics such as artificial intelligence to exploit victims.”
The BBB notes that threat actors are taking over social media accounts to…
AI Powered Bot Targeted 400,000 Websites
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
SentinelOne researchers have discovered AkiraBot, which is used to target small- to medium-sized company websites with generative AI, and drafted outreach messages for website chats, comments, and contact forms. SentinelOne estimates that over 400,000 websites have been targeted, and the bot has successfully spammed “at least 80,000 websites since September 2024.”
The bot generated…
EdTech and Privacy of Student Information: A Case Study
By Roma Patel on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
On March 27, 2025, a class action lawsuit was filed against the education technology (EdTech) company Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, a popular learning management system. The complaint alleges that Instructure violated children’s federal and state privacy rights. According to the complaint, Instructure states that it collects various account information about children, including name…
Cleo AI Agrees to $17 Million Settlement with FTC
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
Sometimes, deals are too good to be true. That was the case for Cleo AI, an online cash advance company that promised consumers fast, up-front cash payments. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Cleo AI offered consumers a mobile personal finance application that “promises consumers instant or same-day cash advances of hundreds of dollars.”…