A mere pendulum swing or the start of a trend?
Federal Judge Makes History in Holding That Border Searches of Cell Phones Require a Warrant
With United States v. Smith (S.D.N.Y. May 11, 2023), a district court judge in New York made history by being the first court to rule that a warrant is required for a cell phone search at the border, “absent exigent circumstances” (although other district courts have wanted to do so).
EFF is thrilled about this decision, given that we have been advocating for a warrant for border searches of electronic devices in the courts and Congress for nearly a decade. If the case is appealed to the Second Circuit, we urge the appellate court to affirm this landmark decision.
Worth repeating and repeating and repeating.
OpenAI isn’t doing enough to make ChatGPT’s limitations clear
Users deserve blame for not heeding warnings, but OpenAI should be doing more to make it clear that ChatGPT can’t reliably distinguish fact from fiction.
Are we making progress or simply repeating what is already out there?
https://fpf.org/blog/the-right-to-be-let-a-lone-star-state-texas-passes-comprehensive-privacy-bill/
THE RIGHT TO BE LET A LONE STAR STATE: TEXAS PASSES COMPREHENSIVE PRIVACY BILL
Over Memorial Day weekend Texas lawmakers passed the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA) with unanimous votes in both the State House and Senate. If enacted by Governor Abbott, Texas will become the tenth U.S. state (and fifth in 2023) to enact broad-based data privacy legislation governing the collection, use, and transfer of consumer data. TDPSA contains several drafting innovations that drove backers of the bill to call it the “strongest data privacy law in the country.” While this is likely to be a controversial statement (especially to regulators in states such as California, Colorado, and Connecticut), TDPSA’s novel provisions deserve close attention by stakeholders:
This should be interesting. Perhaps a new “Expert” specialty?
No ChatGPT in my court: Judge orders all AI-generated content must be declared and checked
Few lawyers would be foolish enough to let an AI make their arguments, but one already did, and Judge Brantley Starr is taking steps to ensure that debacle isn’t repeated in his courtroom.
The Texas federal judge has added a requirement that any attorney appearing in his court must attest that “no portion of the filing was drafted by generative artificial intelligence,” or if it was, that it was checked “by a human being.”
Tools & Techniques. Fire up your Feedly!
https://www.bespacific.com/congressional-research-service-syndication-feed/
Congressional Research Service Syndication Feed
Disruptive Library Technology Jester: “One of the hidden gems of the Library of Congress is the Congressional Research Service (CRS). With a staff of about 600 researchers, analysts, and writers, the CRS provides “policy and legal analysis to committees and Members of both the House and Senate, regardless of party affiliation.” It is kind of like a “think tank” for the members of Congress. And an extensive selection of their reports are available from the CRS homepage and—as government publications—are not subject to copyright; any CRS Report may be reproduced and distributed without permission. And they publish a lot of reports. …The problem is that no automated RSS/Atom feeds of CRS reports exists. Use your favorite search engine to look for “Congressional Research Service RSS or Atom”; you’ll find a few attempts to gather selected reports or comprehensive archives that stopped functioning years ago. And that is a real shame because these reports are good, taxpayer-funded work that should be more widely known. So I created a syndication feed in Atom: https://feeds.dltj.org/crs.xml, You can subscribe to that in your feed reader to get updates. I’m also working on a Mastodon bot account that you can follow and automated saving of report PDFs in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine…”
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