Politico

There’s been a lot of concern over what AI chatbots communicate to users—from conversations that may encourage unhealthy emotional attachments, to advice on committing crimes. Much of the debate over regulatory proposals and lawsuits concerning chatbots has focused on speech rights. There are open questions over whether outputs can be considered a form of legally protected speech. Yet an overlooked aspect of these issues is the potential right of users to access chatbot outputs. The First Amendment protects not only the right to speak, but also the right to listen.

Lawmakers across the nation are increasingly looking to a new tool to protect people’s personal data online: A public repository of the companies collecting, selling and sharing people’s phone numbers, addresses, and shopping habits. Four states currently have laws on the books requiring so-called data brokers—the companies that collect and sell millions of people’s information—to register in a public database, serving as a directory for people to send data deletion requests and potential targets for enforcers.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has transformed his office into one of the nation’s most aggressive litigators against Big Tech, suing companies including Meta, Netflix, WhatsApp and Discord, and building a dedicated privacy-enforcement operation. Now, a Democrat running to replace him says that’s one part of his legacy worth preserving. “There’s so many things I would condemn Paxton’s tenure as attorney general for,” said Texas state Sen.

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from creating a database of millions of Americans’ private information—including Social Security numbers and citizenship status—saying the administration has fed knowingly inaccurate data to states that are now “actively” and “haphazardly” purging purported non-citizens from voter rolls. “The federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote,” U.S.

While social media bans for kids have gained a foothold in more than 40 countries, it’s still an open question whether they’re legal in the US.