AI systems enable new scales of surveillance, discrimination, and manipulation. Biometric capture is expanding. Algorithmic decisions shape access to housing, credit, liberty without meaningful review.
AI innovation operates within a strong rights and freedom framework. Surveillance is constrained. Bias is measured and mitigated. Data protection is robust. People retain meaningful control over how AI affects their lives.
A US senator has pressed TikTok's US joint venture and Oracle for answers regarding the platform's user data safeguards.
Chinese local police forces are upgrading the country's extensive surveillance infrastructure with advanced AI tracking systems.
A Stanford-led study covered by the Financial Times reveals that AI hiring tools produce clear racial disparities, leading to systemic rejection of certain candidates across multiple companies.
The FTC has begun enforcing the TAKE IT DOWN Act, launching a portal for victims to report platforms that fail to remove nonconsensual intimate images.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation launched a new guide outlining concrete steps and human rights guarantees to help governments in the Americas combat arbitrary digital surveillance abuses.
MIT Technology Review published an investigation detailing the personal shock and ongoing harm experienced by victims of nonconsensual AI-generated deepfake pornography.
MIT Technology Review published a newsletter highlighting the harms of AI-generated deepfake porn and AI systems exposing private phone numbers.
A report highlights that Google AI chatbots are surfacing individuals' real phone numbers, with no straightforward mechanism for users to opt out or remove their data.
The EFF launched a campaign opposing the revised GUARD Act, arguing that its mandatory age-verification requirements for AI companions threaten user privacy and civil liberties.
The FTC has banned data broker Kochava from selling sensitive location data from millions of mobile devices without consumer consent.
The EFF criticized the draft federal SECURE Data Act, arguing it would weaken consumer privacy by preempting stronger state laws and denying a private right of action.
The EFF is campaigning against recent and pending state laws, including in Arizona and Connecticut, that block public records access to data collected by automated license plate readers.
A Bloomberg investigation highlights how the surge of AI-generated sexual imagery is overwhelming law enforcement efforts to protect children.
Researchers at a German University Hospital successfully deployed an on-premise, network-isolated LLM system for radiology, enabling the secure processing of unanonymized patient data.
A Washington Post investigation details how AI-generated content and algorithms fueled conspiracy theories following a shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.