Category «United States Law»

AI in Finance and Banking May 31, 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; and OpenAI gives Japan banks access to latest model, Japan’s finance minister says.

Subjects: AI in Banking and Finance, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, Legal Research

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 29, 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: Peter G. Neumann, Who Warned of Computer Security Risks beginning in 2010, Dies at 93; California Sues Owner of Former 23andMe; Troops’ phones leaked location data to foreign adversaries; FBI Warns Companies About Ransom Gang’s Fake IT Support Tactics; and Crypto Security Pioneer: ‘I Now Consider All of Decentralized Finance Unsafe’.

Subjects: AI, Cryptocurrency, Cybersecurity, Healthcare, Privacy

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.

Subjects: Big Data, Healthcare, Legal Research, Privacy

YIKES! The Bluebook’s Generative AI Is Flawed

Despite its unpopularity and the availability of other citation manuals, The Bluebook remains widely used at many law schools to teach legal citation format to law students, and it is relied on by law reviews and courts. The twenty-second edition of The Bluebook was released in May 2025. This new edition includes a new rule—Rule 18.3—that crafts a citation format for legal writers to use when citing generative artificial intelligence (“AI”). This Book Review by Prof. Jessica R. Gunder proceeds in three parts. First, it examines the purpose of citations in legal writing and identifies circumstances in which the citation of generative AI output is appropriate. Second, it considers what The Bluebook requires of authors using generative AI technology and why The Bluebook’s requirements are inappropriate, focusing on: (1) errors within Rule 18.3 itself; (2) the unreasonable burden Rule 18.3 imposes; (3) Rule 18.3’s incompatibility with how generative AI technology is actually used; and (4) how the requirements imposed by Rule 18.3 violate attorney-client confidentiality requirements and work product protections. Third, and finally, it discusses why The Bluebook’s flawed approach matters and how it might be addressed.

Subjects: AI, Legal Ethics, Legal Profession, Legal Research, United States Law

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 25, 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: We Don’t Really Know How A.I. Works. That’s a Problem; Online Betting Is Fueling a Wave of Bankruptcies Among Young Americans; Anthropic’s Mythos Model Is Being Accessed by Unauthorized Users; Google unleashes even more AI security agents to fight crime; and Sam Altman’s Creepy Eyeball-Scanning Company Gets in Bed With Zoom and Tinder.

Subjects: AI, Big Data, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Healthcare, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 11, 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: As the Federal Government Rushes Toward AI, Here Are Three Cautionary Tales; Combating cybercrime and fraud: A unified approach; Signal messages on an iPhone have been harvested despite app security; Anthropic Says Its Latest AI Model Is Too Powerful to Be Released; and Cybersecurity Alert: Criminals Are Now Using Emojis to Avoid Detection.

Subjects: AI, Criminal Law, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Email Security, Financial System, Privacy