Policy Roast: JCPenney's AI Makeup Advisor Just Became a $50M BIPA Liability
Virtual try-on tech meets Illinois biometric law. JCPenney faces class action over facial scanning without consent. Again.
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Policy Roast: AI Companies Pay $12.5M to Clean Up the Mess AI Created
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft just funded open source security. Specifically, security from AI-generated vulnerability spam their tools created.
The Docket: When Your Analytics Tool Leaks Everyone's Analytics
Google Looker Studio had nine cross-tenant vulnerabilities that could let attackers run SQL on your databases. Tenable found them. Here's what that means legally.
Policy Roast: Meta Kills Instagram Encryption After Barely Using It
Meta is shutting down end-to-end encryption for Instagram chats after May 2026. They launched it in 2023, barely promoted it, and now it's gone. This is how privacy theater works.
Policy Roast: When the Fine Is Just the Cost of Doing Business
A mobile carrier paid $60K for breaking international carrier rules. For context, that's less than one executive's quarterly bonus.
Policy Roast: Banning the Symptom While Missing the Disease
The EU added nudification tools to the AI Act ban list. Good. Now explain how you'll enforce it when the tools are free, open-source, and run locally.
Breach Autopsy: When Your Ransomware Settlement Costs More Than Your Security Budget
Long Island Plastic Surgical Group settled a BlackCat ransomware class action for $2.6M. That's a lot of money to pay for security you should have had upfront.