OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health, Wants Access to Your Medical Records

Gizmodo: “ChatGPT users who have been utilizing the chatbot for (often dubious) health advice will now have a chatbot specialized just for that. On Wednesday, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health, a health-specific segment of the popular AI chatbot with the ability to connect to medical records, wellness apps, and wearables. “ChatGPT can help you understand recent …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, E-Records, Health Care, Internet, Medicine

Here is the Agreement Giving ICE Medicaid Patients’ Data

404 Media: “A data sharing agreement between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which was designed for ICE to receive the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients, was published as part of a lawsuit earlier this year, with the public now able to see …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Medicine, Privacy

The State of Anti-Surveillance Design

404 Media [no paywall]: “The same sort of algorithms that use your face to unlock your phone are being used by cops to recognize you in traffic stops and immigration raids.  Cops have access to tools that have scraped billions of images from the web, letting them identify essentially anyone by pointing a phone camera …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

AI-powered browsers can be tricked into stealing your data

Quartz – The companies building them have decided that’s a risk worth taking: “In October, OpenAI launched Atlas, its ChatGPT-powered browser designed to go head-to-head with Google Chrome. Perplexity has Comet. Opera (remember them?) unveiled Neon. Mozilla, which built its entire brand on being the browser you can trust, just announced an “AI Window” for …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Poverty

Fact-Checking and Misinformation: Evidence from the Market Leader

Cage, Julia and Gallo, Nathan and Hengel, Moritz and Henry, Emeric and Huang, Yuchen, Fact-Checking and Misinformation: Evidence from the Market Leader. [61 pages] (December 05, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5868423 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5868423 What are the dynamic effects of fact-checking on the behavior of those who circulate misinformation and on the spread of false news? …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

White House Officially Replaces Facts With Lies About Jan 6

“The White House published an official webpage on the events of Jan. 6, that describes the Capitol attack as a “peaceful protest,” and that Democrats and the Capitol Police – not Trump supporters – were responsible for the violence. The page calls Jan. 6 defendants “patriots” and “hostages,” praised Trump for issuing sweeping pardons, and …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Featherbase

“Since the 20th century, scientific ornithology has been closely linked to the conservation of birds. The study of feathers is a factor that is often overlooked. In museums, the majority of their bird skin collections are archived, stored away in drawers under lock and key and only ever seen by a very selective audience and …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Environmental Law, Knowledge Management

Pew Research – Striking findings from 2025

The Pew Research Centre’s yearly wrap-up: “As we do every year, we’ve gathered data around some of the most pivotal news stories of 2025, including President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the changing U.S. immigration landscape and the rapid rise of artificial intelligence worldwide. Here’s a look back at 2025 through 12 of …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Education, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research