Trump Signs Bill that Criminalizes Deepfake and Revenge Pornography Earlier this week President Trump signed the “Take It Down Act” into law, which makes it a federal crime for individuals to publish, share, or disseminate non-consensual intimate imagery, including AI...
Montana Passes Law Prohibiting Law Enforcement from Buying Private Data As we have previously covered, privacy advocates have voiced their concerns in recent years over the vast amount of data that is being collected by private and government actors, some of which...
New Enforcement Plan Announced by DOJ As we have previously covered, from the outset of the new Trump Administration’s Department of Justice (“DOJ”), it had announced sweeping changes to who and what it would prioritize for criminal prosecutions and what methods they...
Proposed Bill Would Automatically Seal Criminal Records Assistant Majority Leader Jehan Gordon-Booth of the Illinois House of Representatives recently announced legislation that would automatically seal the criminal records of non-violent offenders. The measure, which...
Pretextual Traffic Stops Will Not Be Banned in the Immediate Future As we have previously covered, there has been controversy surrounding the Chicago Police Department’s use of “pretextual stops”, a practice that some advocates argue disproportionality effects...
California Community Colleges Scammed Out of $10 Million by AI Bots As artificial intelligence bots become more ubiquitous and sophisticated, scammers are increasingly using them in novel ways. Such is the case in California, where scammers are using AI bots to take...
DOJ Disbands Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team Earlier this month, it was announced that the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team that targeted cryptocurrency crimes was being disbanded as the new Administration shifts its focus on...
Ruling Clarifies Legal Referrals in Healthcare Community for Non-Physicians As we have previously covered, one of the most important federal laws at the government’s disposal for combating healthcare abuse is the Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”), which at its core makes...
Illinois Senate Bill Would Prohibit Raw Odor of Marijuana Justifying Police Search As we have previously covered, given a recent Illinois Supreme Court ruling, there are different standards for when the smell of raw cannabis, in contrast to burnt cannabis, (standing...
Crime Rate of Cryptoassets Continues to Grow According to a report by the crypto research firm Chainalysis, it estimates that the amount of cryptocurrency that can be tied to illicit activity or scams in 2024 could ultimately end up topping $51 billion, up from an...
