Privacy Plus+ News
Stay informed with our latest insights on privacy and technology trends, along with key updates from our firm.
Scam Alert: AI Takes Financial Fraud to New Depths
This week, let’s direct our attention to the FBI’s recent warning about sophisticated financial scams leveraging artificial intelligence.
Hosch & Morris Co-Founder Featured in American Bar Association’s Exploration of AI
An interview with Kate Morris about AI and privacy is published in the American Bar Association’s December 2024 SciTech E-Privacy Newsletter.
California’s New AI Laws
This week, let’s highlight five new laws enacted in California that regulate the use of artificial intelligence (AI), and especially the use of deepfakes in election campaigns and the entertainment industry.
Health Privacy vs. Generative AI
This week, let’s consider the risks associated with the use of generative AI in healthcare settings, and explore ways to mitigate them, including the use of privacy-enhancing technologies.
“Data Provenance”: Navigating Ownership, Authenticity, and Rights in the Digital Age
This week, let’s examine “Data Provenance,” a concept that involves tracing the lineage of data — its origins, transformations, and ownership. We’ll also propose a new specialized application for “Data Provenance:” regulating the privacy of personal data.
Fifth Circuit Weighs in on Privacy in Texas
This week, let’s consider “the importance of personal privacy to Texas’s legal framework” as expressly recognized by the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in its recent per curium opinion, Amin v. UPS.
Section 702, the Supreme Court, the European Parliament, and Congress
This week, we invoke Sherlock Holmes while discussing the latest news regarding Section 702 of the National Security Act, the GDPR and cross-border data transfers.
Raided, Traded, Weaponized and Commoditized – Your location data
This week, we consider how the commercial exploitation of your location data may be resulting in “near perfect surveillance,” as if your phone was an ankle monitor.
Privacy Plus+: Faith, Liberty and Thanksgiving
This week, mindful of Thanksgiving, we take a quiet moment to reflect on the fidelity that we all owe to the Constitution, to the rule of law, and to our nation.
Why You Should Care about Privacy
This week, we challenge privacy pacifists who say, “I have nothing to hide, so I have nothing to fear” with our counterargument, along with two recent articles about surveillance that everyone should read.