California’s 2025 legislative session ended with a familiar message to businesses: privacy compliance is expanding in scope, and artificial intelligence (AI) governance is moving quickly from voluntary best practices to enforceable transparency and safety obligations. On the last day of 2025, lawmakers introduced 33 privacy and AI bills and passed 16 for Governor Gavin Newsom
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When Chats Become Evidence: Court Affirms Order Requiring OpenAI to Produce 20 Million De-Identified ChatGPT Logs
On January 5, 2026, the federal U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York upheld two discovery orders requiring OpenAI to produce a sample of 20 million de-identified user logs from ChatGPT as part of wide-ranging copyright litigation brought by news organizations and class plaintiffs. This decision offers important insights into how federal…
2026 Will Reward the Companies that Operationalize AI
After a decade of cloud migration and incremental modernization, the technology sector is approaching an inflection point. This year, 2026, is shaping up to be the year AI must move from pilots to production. The focus is shifting from more tools and bigger platforms toward autonomy, context, and embedded intelligence across the stack, from software…
Privacy Tip #475 – Gmail Users Urged to Switch Off New Smart Features Over Privacy Concerns
Gmail users are being urged to review and disable two key “Smart Features” settings following privacy concerns stemming from reports that these tools may allow Google to access email content to support AI‑driven services and may use users’ data for training. The two features are included in Gmail, Chat and Meet, and Google Workspace Smart…
Recap of the Top Read Blog Posts in 2025
Happy New Year! 2025 was a busy year for the Insider authors—we published 271 posts throughout 2025. To kick-off 2026, in case you missed them last year, we are providing the articles from 2025 that were the most interesting to our readers across various categories.
We hope you enjoy them and look forward to another…
Lights, Camera, [AI] Action: India’s Recent Celebrity Deepfake Lawsuits
December 2025 saw India’s courts in New Delhi and Mumbai tackle a new breed of lawsuits: leading Indian cinema celebrities fighting back against unauthorized deepfakes and AI-generated impersonations. Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao (NTR Jr.), R. Madhavan, and Shilpa Shetty—all famous Indian actors—filed and won powerful court orders aimed at blocking the spread of synthetic images,…
The Human Edge: Why Upskilling Legal Teams is the Heart of GenAI Adoption
While the disruptive potential of generative AI in legal services dominates headlines, the real story lies with the individuals making that transformation possible. For in-house legal teams and law firms facing rapid shifts in regulation and technology, upskilling has evolved from a competitive advantage into the foundation of any successful AI strategy.
Technology Isn’t the…
Lawsuit Alleges Fireflies.AI Corp. Illegally Collects Biometric Data from Virtual Meetings
A new lawsuit filed in Illinois federal court is shining a spotlight on the legal risks tied to AI-powered meeting assistants that offer transcription and speaker identification services on platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams. The complaint, brought by Illinois resident Katelin Cruz, alleges that California-based tech company Fireflies.AI Corp. is illegally harvesting and storing…
State AG’s Oppose FCC’s Efforts to Preempt State Laws Regulating AI
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…
AI Governance Programs Provide a Competitive Advantage
In an excellent blog post, “Avoiding AI Pitfalls in 2026: Lessons Learned from Top 2025 Incidents,” ISACA’s Mary Carmichael summarizes lessons learned from top incidents in 2025 using MIT’s AI Incident Database and risk domains. According to Carmichael, an analysis of the incidents showed recurring patterns across different risk domains, including privacy, security,…