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This article was co-authored by Labor + Employment group lawyer, Christopher Costain.
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to play a significant role in how employers streamline operations, simplify workflows, and increase productivity, some employers are turning to highly advanced…
Week of September 28
The environmental and energy world finished September much the same way it spent most of 2026: debating how to balance environmental protection and economic growth. This week’s stories spanned climate litigation, PFAS regulation, electric grid modernization,…
According to a new report from Nordlayer, a credential from an employee of a Fortune 500 company is posted on the dark web every 100 seconds. The report states that almost 10 million credentials, which include both usernames and…
A two-minute apartment tour may not sound like the kind of video Congress had in mind when it passed the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) in 1988, but that question was at the heart of the recent oral argument in…
A panel of judges sitting on the federal Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit appeared skeptical of a challenge to the use of automatic license plate readers by the Illinois state police, questioning whether the cameras’ collection of vehicle…
Following the hacking incidents of OpenAI agents of Hugging Face, Ruby Gems, and an Australian government website, two suits have been filed against OpenAI.
One suit was filed by not-for-profit Legal Advocates for Safe Science & Technology (LASST), which claimed…
Consumer AI agents are software tools designed to do more than answer questions. They can break a request into steps, use external tools and apps, and carry out tasks such as comparing products, managing digital workflows, or booking travel. Some…
The Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) recently warned that ShinyHunters is using voice-phishing attacks to target the healthcare sector. “The hackers used medical-themed impersonation domains to trick healthcare employees into exposing their credentials.” More than a dozen organizations…
Week of September 21
As September winds down, a familiar theme continues to emerge across the environmental and energy landscape: the challenge of balancing growing energy demand with reliability, affordability, and environmental protection. This week’s developments focused heavily on data…
Ransomware gang ShinyHunters boldly attacked the FBI this week, alleging that it hacked into the FBI’s job site, defaced it, then stole sensitive records of employees and applicants, including human resources records of current employees.
The gang alleges that it…
