Seems a touch biased…

https://www.bespacific.com/border-searches-of-laptops-phones-up-32-this-year/

Border Searches of Laptops, Phones Up 32% This Year

Gizmodo: “It’s been hard to keep track of all the ways in which America has been speedrunning toward a full-blown fascist surveillance state over the first two years of the second Trump administration. That’s partially due to the disorienting, shock-and-awe nature of each fresh injustice. But it’s mostly because of just how many they’ve been throwing at beleaguered Americans in rapid-fire succession. In the runup to the midterm elections, which polls suggest will deliver a debilitating blue tsunami to MAGA’s vitality, the chaos has only intensified as the incumbents make it clear there’s nothing they’re not prepared to do to cling to power. ICE began a fresh campaign of raids in blue state “sanctuary cities.” DHS has been targeting election centers in historically Dem-voting counties of battleground states with demands for voting records and voters’ confidential personal information under the pretext of investigating voter fraud. And early voter reports that their poorly-calibrated touchscreen machines keep glitching out—not unlike the President himself — have many fearing full-bore election rigging…”

Increased capabilities means new problems…

https://fpf.org/blog/ai-hallucination-goes-to-court-a-global-mapping-of-emerging-legal-issues/

AI Hallucination Goes to Court: A Global Mapping of Emerging Legal Issues

AI hallucination was once treated largely as a quirk of generative systems: occasionally amusing, often embarrassing, and generally filed away as an unavoidable technical limitation. That framing is now wearing thin.

… This blogpost takes stock of these emerging developments at a global level. In the absence of a centralised database or other comprehensive source (note that existing databases of AI hallucinations like here and here mainly document fake citations or unreliable AI-generated materials submitted in judicial proceedings which fall outside the scope of this blogpost), the cases discussed here were assembled through ongoing monitoring of legal and policy developments, targeted searches, and the routine tracking of professional and social-media feeds. This exercise does not amount to a systematic review in the strict academic sense, nor does it claim to have captured every relevant dispute. Its purpose is to map a fast-moving field and identify the legal fault lines along which AI hallucination is beginning to be framed as a governable problem.