U.S. District Judge Rita Lin certified a class action by California drivers who bought Tesla's Full Self-Driving package and say Elon Musk misled them for eight years about the cars' self-driving capabilities. She said thousands likely saw a website claim, made from October 2016 to August 2024, of full self-driving hardware, but refused to certify Enhanced Autopilot buyers.
A class action filed Aug. 1 in Illinois federal court alleges Home Depot used facial recognition at self-checkout kiosks to collect customers' facial geometry without informed written consent or public retention policies, violating Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act. The plaintiff, a regular Chicago shopper, says he saw his own face on a kiosk screen inside a green box.
Callum Brooks, 25, admitted at Glasgow Sheriff Court to using an AI app to alter two fully clothed Instagram photos of a woman he knew from high school so they showed her undressed, then sending them to two friends. In a case thought to be among Scotland's first, he was fined £335; the Crown accepted there was "no sexual element."
Judge Carlos Eduardo Batista dos Santos ordered Meta, under a R$2,000 daily fine, to delete a Partido Liberal Instagram video, made with AI, staging a fictitious interview that portrayed PT supporters as "addicted to PT"; Meta removed it. The judge found an abuse of free expression in a video that drew about 90,000 views in three days.
Ethan Tanner Fagan, 33, of Amity, was sentenced to 90 years for 30 counts of possessing child sexual abuse material, then on August 15 received 10 more years plus a 15-year suspended imposition for production and six years for promoting obscene material. The investigation found AI-generated abuse imagery depicting real, identified children and adults from the area.
A federal court referred an anonymised lawyer to the Legal Practice Board of Western Australia and ordered him to pay the government's costs of $8,371.30 after his immigration-case submissions cited four cases that did not exist. He told the court he used Anthropic's Claude for research and Microsoft Copilot to validate, having "developed an overconfidence" in AI.
Kai Jon, 24, of Altoona, is charged in Eau Claire County with six felony counts of possessing virtual child pornography; the complaint alleges images police say appear fully AI-generated. It tests a Wisconsin ban in effect since March 2024: his public defender told the court on Aug. 14 she will file a motion challenging its constitutionality.
A federal judge in Kentucky ruled Friday that Humana must face a class action alleging it used the nH Predict AI model to wrongly deny post-acute care, rejecting its argument that patients first had to exhaust appeals. Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings let breach of contract, unjust enrichment and common law fraud claims stand but dismissed four others as preempted.
