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AI-enabled mental health tools are moving quickly from novelty to mainstream use, and regulators are starting to draw sharper lines around what those tools can and cannot claim to do. Recent lawsuits against Character Technologies Inc.,  the company behind Character.ai, allege that the platform hosted bots that mimicked licensed therapists, including one persona that allegedly…

The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) proposed policy statement puts a new consumer-protection frame around AI model behavior: if an AI company represents that its system is designed to deliver accurate, objective, or user-directed outputs, the company may create a reasonable consumer expectation that the system is trying to provide the best answer it can within…

Colorado has now significantly revised its AI governance framework before the law ever takes effect. SB 26-189, approved by Governor Jared Polis on May 14, 2026, repeals and reenacts key portions of the Colorado Artificial Intelligence Act (CAIA) and reframes the law around “automated decision-making technology” (ADMT) used to materially influence consequential decisions in areas such…

On December 17, 2025, a bipartisan group of 23 Attorneys General from the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawai’i, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and the  District of Columbia, sent a comment letter to the Federal Communications Commission…

The Attorneys General of California, Connecticut, and Colorado, along with the California Privacy Protection Agency (“the Coalition”) announced on September 9, 2025, that they are banding together as a coalition on an investigative sweep of “potential noncompliance” with Global Privacy Control (GPC), that provides businesses with “an easy-to-use browser setting or extension that automatically signals…

Are you storing sensitive data on a shared network drive? If so, your organization could be at serious risk of a data breach or privacy lawsuit. Shared drives, like the common “S:\ drive,” are often used to store documents, spreadsheets, customer information, financial records, and even scanned IDs. But here’s the problem: these network shares…

Stemming from Colorado’s Concerning Consumer Protections in Interactions with Artificial Intelligence Systems Act (the Act), which will impose obligations on developers and deployers of artificial intelligence (AI), the Colorado Artificial Intelligence Impact Task Force recently issued a report outlining potential areas where the Act can be “clarified, refined[,] and otherwise improved.”

The Task Force’s mission…

This week, I received a fake text message (a smish) saying my E-ZPass account was overdue and that I urgently needed to pay it. That’s a new one and, apparently, quite effective. Luckily, I knew it was a scam, but others were victimized.

According to the website Krebs on Security, security researchers “say the…

After the conclusion of the public comment period earlier this month, the Colorado Department of Law adopted amendments to the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA). The Act grants rights to Colorado consumers concerning their personal information, including the right to access, delete, and correct their personal data as well as the right to opt out of…

As we outlined in our previous blog article, California recently became the second state to enact a law safeguarding consumer brain data, following a similar law passed by Colorado in April. Both state laws prevent the sale or unauthorized sharing of data generated by consumer neurotechnology products. Under these new state privacy laws, companies…