This is how Identity Verification Companies Store Your Data

Via Reddit – “This is what the storage of user information by an age verification company called FaceTec looks like, one of the big players alongside Persona and Yoti. They claim to be “privacy-friendly,” but they proudly allow companies that purchase their software/solution to store as much user data as they want. The company permits …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

The Economist launches a dedicated ChatGPT app

NiemanLabs: “On Wednesday, The Economist launched its own ChatGPT app — the first of its kind by a major consumer news publication. “The Economist – Graphs” runs natively inside ChatGPT and allows users to interact with the publication’s data visualizations. At launch, the app is focused solely on U.S. polling data. After installing the app, …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Ballots Have Been Seized Across the US. No One Knows What Will Happen Next

Wired: “So far this year, authorities have seized or demanded ballots from elections in four states. Experts fear the trend could throw the midterms into chaos unless courts draw a line. As US voters look to the November midterms, the Trump administration is obsessed with looking back to past elections, seizing ballots cast years ago …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, E-Records, Government Documents, Legal Research

Biased AI writing assistants shift users’ attitudes on societal issues; Synthetic Sources?

Biased AI writing assistants shift users’ attitudes on societal issues. Sci Adv. 2026 Mar 11;12(11):eadw5578. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adw5578 – Artificial intelligence (AI) writing assistants powered by large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to make autocomplete suggestions to people as they write text. Can these AI writing assistants affect people’s attitudes in this process? In two large-scale …

Subjects: AI, Censorship, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Stop Sloppypasta

slop·py·pas·ta  n.  “Verbatim LLM output copy-pasted at someone, unread, unrefined, and unrequested. From slop (low-quality AI-generated content) + copypasta (text copied and pasted, often as a meme, without critical thought). It is considered rude because it asks the recipient to do work the sender did not bother to do themselves. You just got an unread …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management

An Incomplete List of Successful Anti-Data Center Legislation

404 Media [no paywall]: “No one wants to live next to a noisy computer warehouse and communities across the country are successfully fighting them. Opposition to the massive data centers that power AI is bipartisan and growing across the country. From Maine to California, more states and local communities are passing moratoriums and bans on …

Subjects: AI, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Legal Research, Legislation

What 370,000 College Essays Tell Us About A.I.’s Effects on Creativity

The New York Times Gift Article: “….Brainstorming is the work that’s fundamental to writing. As a researcher studying A.I.’s effects on education, I have concluded that these tools only superficially improve writing. The bigger and more alarming impact they have is to constrict our full range of thoughts and our ability to generate original and …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

Confidential Government Information Nondisclosure Agreement

Confidential Government Information Nondisclosure Agreement, Federal Register, May 27, 2026 AGENCY: Office of Personnel Management. ACTION: Notice with request for comment. SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) requests comment on a draft nondisclosure agreement (NDA) for use by Federal agencies for both new and existing employees. The form is intended to document Federal employees’ …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

‘BusPatrol’ Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses

404 Media – Now They Want to Give Cops Access: “BusPatrol, a company that has installed AI-powered cameras in tens of thousands of school buses around the U.S., now plans to turn those cameras into automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), capturing the location of every vehicle the buses drive past, and give that data to …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, E-Records, Legal Research, Privacy, Transportation