PRG News Roundup 2/25/26

Join the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy, the Information Law Institute, and S.T.O.P. (the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project) for the US launch of Albert Fox Cahn’s new book “Move Slow and Upgrade”. Albert will be discussing the book, co-authored by Evan Selinger of the Rochester Institute of Technology, which takes a deep dive into some of the most disastrous innovations of recent years while highlighting some of the unsung upgraders pushing real progress each day. The event will take place on Wednesday March 4, 2026 at NYU School of Law. Book discussion begins at 7:30; reception follows at 8:15. Register here

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave AI company Anthropic a Friday deadline to rescind its self-imposed restrictions on military and surveillance uses of its technology or face potential blacklisting and loss of Pentagon contracts amid legal/policy disputes over AI governance. The Department of Defense threatened to invoke the Defense Production Act over the dispute.

A new paper shows that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization.

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office fined Reddit £14.5 million for unlawfully processing personal data of children under 13, under the UK’s Online Safety Act.

US Rep. Lori Trahan announced the release of a bipartisan staff report outlining recommendations to modernize the Privacy Act of 1974. Under the Privacy Act, the DC Circuit recently permitted the IRS to share their data with DHS

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York held that documents a defendant created using an artificial intelligence tool and subsequently sent to his attorneys were not protected by the attorney-client privilege or attorney work-product privilege.

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