🔐 Tech & Privacy
AI oversight is the story now, not a side note — the FTC opening enforcement on AI-marketing claims and AI-enabled scams at the same time it's fielding user complaints about xAI's Grok, while facial-recognition privacy litigation from an earlier era of this beat (Clearview AI) is still working its way through appeals courts. Updated continuously as new reporting lands; this page is a living summary, not a one-time post.
The FTC Turns Its Attention to AI
The FTC has been unusually active on AI specifically: it's warned of AI-enabled scams and announced new enforcement plans, and separately is probing xAI over uncensored Grok content and difficult cancellation processes — users allege they were charged after attempting to cancel, potentially violating the FTC's own Click-to-Cancel rule. On the infrastructure side, New York paused AI data-center construction, and the EU has moved to enforce a new cybersecurity framework that touches AI systems directly.
Facial Recognition's Legal Comeuppance, Delayed
A US appeals court has vacated Clearview AI's privacy-case settlement over a procedural defect in how it was structured — not a ruling on the underlying facial-recognition practice itself, which remains legally unresolved even as the technology keeps spreading into new commercial and law-enforcement contexts (see our Surveillance State hub for that expansion).
State Privacy Law and AI's Institutional Friction
Privacy regulation keeps moving at the state level in the absence of a federal standard — Indiana, Kentucky, and Rhode Island all passed new privacy statutes reflecting a nationwide shift toward stronger data-governance rules. DHS has updated how it classifies AI tools used in immigration enforcement, and a lawsuit alleges Mayo Clinic retaliated against an employee who flagged internal AI-compliance issues — a reminder that AI oversight fights aren't limited to the tech companies building the models.
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