• Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health and the Rule of Law – Part 10. This article is the tenth in a series by Sabrina I. Pacifici focused on the Trump administration’s unrelenting policy of attacking science, healthcare, public health, and the rule of law. The cornerstone of this series are topical highlights on hundreds of anti-government actions conducted by this administration, tracked and highlighted as they are operationalized each month. The greater goal of the series is to identify the consequences of these actions to shatter the health and welfare of our nation – terms broadly used to encompass our nation’s democracy. Critical government services, data collection and analysis, and governance across all agencies have been terminated to align with this administration’s demands for a singular loyalty to this president, not the Constitution. Together these articles form an actionable pathfinder to identify the myriad ways the fundamental components of a functioning government structure, legislative, executive, and judicial, with checks and balances preventing any one branch from gaining too much power, have been disrupted and rendered inoperative.
• Prompt Injection: What Lawyers Considering Agentic AI Must Know. AI agents can fail in too many ways to count. This article by Jerry Lawson focuses on one of the biggest vulnerabilities, prompt injection. However, because there are so many other ways agentic AI can fail, the final sections will also discuss ways to limit the damage a compromised agent or other AI security vulnerability can cause.
• Why 40 per cent of people are avoiding the news, according to a psychologist. Dr. Ali Jasemi is researcher in developmental psychology, focusing on social development and psychological well-being. He argues that news fatigue is not laziness, weakness or a generational decline in civic interest. It’s the predictable response of a human brain meeting an environment it was never designed to navigate.
• The form asked my permission to share my health data. Then it wouldn’t let me say no. Over the last year, Alex Rosenblat, Director of Sociotechnical Research, The Markup, interviewed more than 20 patients, healthcare providers, experts and advocates about the privacy forms they must sign to get care at their providers’ offices. Time and again she was told the same thing: Across the country, from large hospital systems to small, private clinics, patients are being asked to sign waivers blindly without knowing exactly what they’re signing. When patients ask to see more, staff usually don’t have an easy way to show them. When patients do get the forms, it tells them all the ways their medical data will be shared and reused, and some of the ways patients can refuse. But electronic systems make it impossible to opt out on the spot, requiring follow up emails. Records sharing between unaffiliated providers through these networks can benefit patients by making their scattered records more visible to the provider who is treating them. But it can also harm patients.
• Before Judgment: AI and the Developmental Gap in Legal Formation. Miranda De La Torre, AI and Legal Technology Fellow at ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, discusses the complex challenges of new lawyers now learning powerful systems on the job, often without clear institutional guidance, shared professional norms, or confidence in their own ability to supervise the output.
• Create An AI Policy Before Your Firm Falls Further Behind. The majority of law firm employees are using AI with virtually no guidance or guardrails. How does your law firm compare? Do you have an AI policy in place, and have you educated your staff about appropriate AI usage? Nicole Black explains drafting AI governance isn’t as difficult as it might seem, and there’s no better time than now to get started.
• AI in Finance and Banking, June 30, 2026 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary sources, and as available, indicate links to alternate free versions. Seven highlights from this post: The Optimal Use of AI in Financial Regulation; Inside Claude’s rapid expansion across corporate finance; What Real-Time Risk Looks Like. AI enables risk assessment at the speed of the business; Vendor Lock-In and AI: The Risk Banks Aren’t Pricing; The geography of AI firms; I’m the CEO of Goldman Sachs; The AI Job Apocalypse Is Overblown; OpenAI gives Japan banks access to latest model, Japan’s finance minister says; and Do Job Postings Show Early Labor‑Market Effects of AI?
• AI in Finance and Banking, June 15, 2026 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary sources, and as available, indicate links to alternate free versions. Seven highlights from this post: Warren’s Warning: Is The AI Boom America’s Next Financial Crisis?; What Investment Data Implies about the AI Transition; AI Financial Advice: Supply, Demand, and Life Cycle Implications; Review into the long-term impact of AI on retail financial services (The Mills Review); Financial Stability Risks Mount as Artificial Intelligence Fuels Cyberattacks; and Banking AI Explainability Is Now a Regulatory Requirement—Are Banks Ready?
• Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 27, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and informationhttps://www.llrx.com/2026/05/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-june-27-2026/ that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: Is the government listening to you through your phone? Here’s what a former CIA officer says; Latest Type of Mail Fraud Is Actually an Old-School Scam; Secret Service put protectees, employees at risk with mobile device security blunders; and White House App Uses Code From Tech Vendor Still Operating in Russia.
• Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 20, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: Worries mount about another state AI law preemption; Meta Tested Military Facial Recognition for Smart Glasses; Signal Veterans Want to Encrypt Slack, Google Docs, and Basically Every Other App; A Popular Streaming Service May Owe You $2,500; and Anthropic suspends top AI models after U.S. export control order.
• Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 13, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: FCC Proposal Could Ban Anonymous Burner Phones in US; Fighting Spyware: An Update From WhatsApp; Emergency Weather Alerts on Netflix? There is a Growing Push to Get the FCC To Mandate Alerts on Streaming; The Pope’s AI Warning Could Help Workers Seek Religious Exemptions From Using AI; and If you don’t fall for these extortionists’ calls, they’ll show up with USB sticks.
• Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 6, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: Users lost $2.1 billion on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp in 2025; Meta and TikTok Are Getting Your Data From State Healthcare Sites: Report; Fake CAPTCHA scam turns a quick click into a costly phone bill; PA Rep. proposing regulations on how data from license plate readers is used; and Trump admin floats policy language limiting contractor say on agency uses of technology.

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