The government is out of control. Maybe employees of ICE should be sentenced to double the time in jail that innocent people have spent. Jessica Schulberg reports: A U.S.-born citizen was arrested in Florida on Wednesday and charged with illegally entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” Twenty-year-old Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez was detained for a…
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Data Protection Commission Announces commencement of inquiry into X Internet Unlimited Company (XIUC)
11th April 2025 — The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has today announced the commencement of an inquiry into the processing of personal data comprised in publicly-accessible posts posted on the ‘X’ social media platform by EU/EEA users, for the purposes of training generative artificial intelligence models, in particular the Grok Large Language Models (LLMs). The…
To Delete or Not to Delete: Can 23andMe Really Sell Genetic Data Via Bankruptcy?
Lawyers at Alston & Bird write: On March 23, 2025, 23andMe Holding Co. (“23andMe”) filed for bankruptcy in the Eastern District of Missouri, potentially setting in motion the sale of genetic data collected from more than 15 million people. This has led to news outlets and state Attorneys General encouraging consumers to delete their 23andMe data before it is sold…
Levittown: a six-part series from Bloomberg on deepfakes
Olivia Carville and Margi Murphy report: New Year’s Eve. Levittown, New York. Word travels swiftly as one young woman tells the next: “You’re on the website.” Dozens of recent high-school graduates are finding out that their photos have been scraped from their social media accounts, manipulated and posted to a porn website. Who would have…