Google has recently updated its AI ethics guidelines, removing previous restrictions on using its technology in weapons and surveillance. This policy change marks a significant shift in Google’s position on the use of AI for national security purposes. Previously, Google’s AI principles included a section listing “Applications we will not pursue”, which explicitly prohibited the use of AI in weapons, ...
Recent legal developments highlight a judicial trend toward scrutinizing the datasets used in AI model training, as part of the continued legal struggle over copyright infringement allegations against AI developers.
In Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware found that Ross Intelligence infringed Westlaw’s copyrights by using Westlaw headnotes to train its AI-based ...
The EU AI Act began its phased implementation on February 2, 2025. Provisions that came into force in February govern AI literacy and ban certain harmful AI practices.
Under the EU AI Act, organizations must now promote AI literacy, ensuring their personnel have the skills and knowledge to deploy AI responsibly. These skills include understanding risks and ethical concerns with ...
Apple recently removed its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) feature in the UK, following a governmental order to allow circumvention of personal data encryption.
The British government, acting under the Investigatory Powers Act, demanded covert access to users’ encrypted data, effectively forcing Apple to create a backdoor. Rather than compromise its encryption, Apple chose to remove the ADP feature for UK ...
A recent U.S. Copyright Office report addresses copyright protection for AI-generated content, concluding that existing legal doctrines are sufficient to resolve questions of copyrightability. The report also dismisses the arguable need for additional copyright protection for purely AI-generated content.
The report, which analyzed over 10,000 public comments received in response to a Notice of Inquiry, emphasizes that copyright law has ...
A federal district court in California has denied Google’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging it violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), whose section 631 is known as the Wiretapping Rule. The court found that Google’s technical capability to access call information and content, without receiving consent from all parties, may be unlawful wiretapping under that law.
The ...