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.
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.
The Docket: Okta Builds AI Agent Identity Management Before Someone Gets Sued
Okta just announced a framework for managing AI agent identities. Translation: companies are deploying agents without knowing who has access to what.
The Docket: Amazon Just Dodged €746M-Here's What Changed
Luxembourg court annuls record GDPR fine. If the biggest penalty in history gets thrown out, what does 'reasonable' compliance actually mean?