Despite the Israeli Supreme Court’s landmark ruling last month which criticized the irresponsible use of generative AI to draft documents in legal proceedings, litigants continue to submit court filings citing AI-hallucinated court cases.
Several days after the previous ruling on the same subject matter, the Supreme Court outright rejected a petition that once again included AI hallucinations. The rejected petition ...
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, ...
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.
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Following the record-breaking $1.3 billion fine imposed by the Irish Data Protection Commission on Meta in 2023, two of Meta’s institutional shareholders, both pension funds, have filed suit against the company due to “improper handling of user data”.
The plaintiffs assert “credible suspicions” that the board of directors and senior leadership are responsible for the privacy violations, which resulted in ...
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 ...
In a recent landmark decision, the Israeli National Labor Court clarified the conditions for lawful use of surveillance cameras at the workplace, without it constituting an actionable degradation in work conditions.
The ruling addresses an appeal against the regional labor court’s decision that had essentially assumed that any use of surveillance cameras at the workplace is deemed an actionable degradation ...
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 ...