Events
Join The Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, Library Futures, Theater of the Apes, and the Information Law Institute for a Public Domain Day presentation of Necromancers of the Public Domain. Wednesday, February 12 at 6:30 – 9:30pm EST
Join law school faculty, staff, and students in discussing AI & law news at LunchGPT Live, held online. Friday, February 14 at 4:00-5:00pm EST
News
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is currently taking action against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) at around the same time that X, formerly Twitter, announced that it had struck a deal with Visa to offer a mobile payments service, which would have been overseen by the CFPB. Under acting director Russ Vought, most of the CFPB’s work has been ordered to be stopped, and Vought has made statements that he will not seek any more funding for the bureau.
The American Federation of Teachers is leading a coalition of labor unions in filing a federal suit against the Trump administration and DOGE, alleging that the latter’s access to systems with personal data violates privacy laws. The suit warns that DOGE has access to an Education Department system with information on over 40 million Americans that includes Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, and home addresses.
Vice President JD Vance has indicated a departure from the Biden administration’s stance on AI at the 3rd AI Action Summit in Paris. After making a speech in which he expressed that European regulations of technology would be a burden for US companies, the US and the UK refused to sign on to the summit’s declaration for inclusive and sustainable AI practices.
Following Italy’s blocking of DeepSeek over lack of information on its use of personal data, the European Data Protection Board broadened the scope of its AI taskforce, which had previously only focused on ChatGPT. Enforcers in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and other countries are also questioning DeepSeek on its data collection practices.
(Compiled by Student Fellow Jerome David)