Legitimate interest as a legal basis for training your AI is not res ipsa loquitur. It does not speak for itself.
In the age of AI, we often hear clients, and see privacy policies, refer to a “legitimate interest in the improvement of our product” as the legal basis for using input data to train…
“It wasn’t me, it was the AI agent” may not help companies avoid civil or criminal liability under a new bipartisan legislative proposal.
U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) have announced the proposed AI Agent Accountability Act, which seeks to hold AI-agent operators and developers liable for hacking incidents.
According to…
The Third Circuit has now shown its work. On October 1, 2026, Above the Fold reported that the court affirmed the judgment for Thomson Reuters in its suit against Ross Intelligence and that it filed its opinion under seal. With the full opinion now public, practitioners can see how the first federal appellate court to…
California has enacted a new law requiring healthcare providers using artificial intelligence to keep clinical decision-making human.
AB 1979, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom on September 30, 2026, requires a health facility, clinic, physician’s office, or office of a group practice to take reasonable steps to ensure that a licensed healthcare provider, acting within…
The first U.S. appellate court to weigh in on whether AI training on copyrighted material qualifies as fair use has sided with the copyright holder. On September 29, 2026, the Third Circuit affirmed the district court’s ruling in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH v. Ross Intelligence Inc., holding that a legal-technology startup infringed Thomson Reuters’…
A new law signed by Governor Newsom, AB 1609, requires large private businesses to disclose when the customer service agent they are using is an AI bot and provide customers with timely access to quality customer service.
This joins other existing obligations that may require disclosure of AI bot use, including:
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SB 947: The Return of the “No Robo Bosses Act”
Update: This bill passed and is effective July 1, 2027. SB 947 is a revised version of SB 7, which was vetoed by Governor Newsom in 2025. The veto raised concerns about overly broad notification requirements and restrictions on Automated Decision Systems (ADS) use. The…
As lawyers increasingly incorporate generative AI into everyday practice, bar associations around the world are considering the same question: how do longstanding professional and ethics rules that have governed the practice of law for hundreds of years, apply when legal work is assisted by AI?
A recent memorandum from the Ethics Committee of the Israel…
400,000 EUR fine by the Italian DPA for a credit agency Cerved Group S.p.A’s failure to provide sufficient responses to a data access requests (DSARs) provides some insight into a possible direction for the future of privacy rights enforcement, in the US as well.
In this case, a credit reporting agency provided different answers…
New lawsuit by the PA Attorney General against Snap (fka Snapchat) provides some potential lessons to companies that have child or teen audiences for their services.
1. Mind your Marketing:
Regulators pay special attention to the content of marketing of the companies as evidence of knowledge or intent as well as evidence of audience-design. If…
