In our corner of the world, FTC enforcement is pored over, dissected, and drives how we advise on risk. So when this administration starts setting aside previous enforcement, it naturally throws a lot into flux. I wrote on this week's Rytr reversal: advertisinglaw.fkks.com/post/102lz36...

First company to offer a ground-up non-anthropomorphic chatbot may actually capture the enterprise market.

Hochul vetoed the New York Health Information Privacy Act. Have a great weekend y’all.

So back

This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

Use Play Age Signals API terms of service link here 404s here - means they are not enforceable right? developer.android.com/google/play/...

This has been happening for years with basic garage band beats “featuring” like three unrelated artists. It almost ruined release radar (the one thing I look forward to every week, which Spotify has ruined on its own volition). AI just makes the songs more believable.

If you're interested in the future of neural data privacy and brain hacking read my Q+A with expert Nita Farahany. therecord.media/what-brain-p...

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

Up to no good.

New CCPA regs consider “legal services offices” to be “sensitive locations.” I have never seen such protections afforded to lawyers like this, and I’m really curious exactly what prompted this inclusion.

"How Wikipedia Can Save the Internet With Advertising" @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/how-wikipedi...

Excellent Verge piece on the age verification meteor hurtling towards the embattled right to anonymity. www.theverge.com/policy/78125...

Without an independent FTC, will it be credible enough to enforce the EU-US Data Privacy Framework? The US will lose its most effective federal regulator of privacy. My article about FTC privacy reg with @hartzog.bsky.social is here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…

Cheap TV prices are subsidized by sales of your viewership data (sorry)

Sending letters to 3 TikTok service providers about not weakening privacy/security of Americans’ data because of the threat of foreign powers is dripping with irony. www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

OpenAI speed-running every available monetization model. Just sell ads, you're going to get there eventually. www.ft.com/content/4491...

Absolute bloodbath in both top 10s at Wimbledon

Between Utah v. Snap and Michigan v. Roku, the plaintiff's firms have realized they do not need a private right of action to go after big tech firms.

Great in-depth analysis from Daniel Goldberg: technologylaw.fkks.com/post/102kqsd...

Will be a fun experiment to watch play out: "Introducing pay per crawl: enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access" blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-...

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Odd Lots doing reputation and legitimacy laundering for this administration via Stephen Miran on today's ep is disappointing.

Shrek is Law.

Setting cars on fire is normal fare here. Universal sign for “Lakers won.”

Google AI Overviews is great for Legal Research 👍

Computer scientists have proposed a way to provide verifiable claims about location data without surrendering privacy. www.theregister.com/2025/05/17/p...

Comment sections under Onion posts are the true distillation of the Bluesky experience. The next joke taken will be the first.

This is quite the fun (?) fact.

I don’t get the blowback on this one, aside from general techlash. This feels like a natural, inevitable pivot for the company.

This won’t make it past Senate parliamentarian. Expect we get an EO declaring all training data lawfully collected or fair use dead soon enough instead.

Many artists actually make nothing off of SoundCloud, so this is crazy. But given the biz only became profitable two years ago - 16 years into its existence - it’s not surprising.

I guess I must appreciate these LinkedIn posters collecting and compiling open privacy and AI roles, but something about it feels like disingenuous engagement farming. What is the catch.

Grateful to work at a firm that supports Perkins and the rule of law.

I can't find my receipts, but my team knows, I called the CPPA pulling the ADMT regs like two month ago. See you all in 2027.

Nearly every Spotify playlist has moved from human to algorithmically curated, but someone at HQ is keeping a light on for planet rave, and I want to let them know I appreciate them for keeping me young and neuroplastic.

AppLovin CEO rebuffing the shorts by citing ... Grok. What.

hey what’s up everybody, happy saturday. just wanted to jump on here for a minute so I could stifle free speech and silence the opinions of others

I personally would have selected different sources for recommending health information to my users. blog.google/technology/h...

Governor Glenn Youngkin vetoed Virginia's High-Risk Artificial Intelligence Developer and Deployer Act today. Not entirely a shock, but representative of the current state of U.S. AI legislation. There will be more legislation, but opposition can be strong. technologylaw.fkks.com/post/102k63v...

Ferguson: "I don't want to go after censorship. The government is not supposed to go after censorship qua censorship, because we're not the speech police." Also Ferguson:

Bezos debasing himself to sit front row at inauguration just for the FTC to stick with the Prime dark patterns case is rich.

So much to unpack here: - Vendors are not a panacea! - Mandated hiring a UX design consultant? - Guidance on authorized agents - Symmetry! Happy first CPPA CCPA action day to all and to all a good day!

Sundar debasing himself to sit front row at inauguration just for the DOJ to still ask for a Chrome spin-off is rich.

Finally made it to Ballmer's Intuit Dome. Absolute spectacle & one of the cooler stadiums I've been BUT ... it's a perfect privacy law exam fact pattern. GameFace ID (face match for tix, payments), Identity Pass (Apple Wallet, Bluetooth for payments). Not to mention a Kafkaesque opt out process!

Any good writing on agentic AI and fiduciary duties? Popped into my head while listening to Reid Blackman's excellent Ethical Machines ep from last month.

Big news in the age verification world this week as the Utah legislature passed a bill putting onus on app stores (!) to handle parental consent and age-gating. technologylaw.fkks.com/post/102k37s...