Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into Chinese AI company DeepSeek, alleging it violates state data privacy laws and saying it "appears to be no more than a proxy for the CCP." He says he notified DeepSeek it violates the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act, and ordered Google and Apple to hand over their analyses and app-store documentation.
France's Ligue des droits de l'Homme filed a complaint with the Paris prosecutor's office on 13 February. It accuses Apple of privacy violations, unlawful data processing and deceptive commercial practice over Siri recordings. The complaint relies on a former subcontractor analyst who says he handled 1,300 recordings a day, many triggered by accident. Apple says Siri requests are not linked to users' Apple IDs.
The Indian Music Industry group, T-Series and Saregama India have asked a New Delhi court to hear their concerns about "unauthorised use of sound recordings" to train AI models. They are seeking to join news agency ANI's suit, which accuses OpenAI's ChatGPT of using its content without permission. OpenAI says it follows fair-use principles and argues that Indian courts lack jurisdiction.
Deposition transcripts filed in Kadrey v. Meta Platforms show that Meta paused some AI book-licensing efforts in early April 2023. Partnerships lead Sy Choudhury cited "very slow uptake" and publishers that lacked the rights to license. The authors' amended complaint alleges Meta trained its Llama models on pirated e-books from "shadow libraries," some possibly obtained via torrenting.
Derek Mobley alleges that Workday's AI screening tools rejected him for jobs because of his race, age and disability. On February 6 he filed to expand his suit into a nationwide collective of applicants over 40 rejected since September 2020. Four more applicants say they were rejected on over 3,000 applications. Judge Rita Lin set an April 8 hearing.
Leo Lizano, 29, faces 20 felony charges after investigators said he used AI to create more than a thousand child sexual abuse images and saved them on Google Drive. Google flagged the images to authorities, and a fairly new Florida law covers images without real children. The Martin County sheriff expects more charges, and Lizano is free on $52,000 bond.
A woman told Action 9 that her elderly mother lost more than $600,000 in savings in under a year to scammers posing as Elon Musk, who used AI to mimic his voice. According to the daughter, the money first went out by wire transfer, at least once topping $100,000. Then came daily $3,000 ATM withdrawals, much of it spent on gift cards.
