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Threat Actors Exploit Google’s Gemini to Accelerate Cyberattacks

March 3, 2026 By Seol Namgoong and Kim Peretti

Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) recently reported that cybercriminals—in particular, state-sponsored threat actors from North Korea, Iran, China, and Russia—are misusing Gemini, Google’s large language model (LLM), to support all stages of their attack lifecycle. Specifically, GTIG observed threat actors using Gemini to code and script tasks, accelerate reconnaissance, research publicly known vulnerabilities, and enable […]

Filed Under: AI Cybersecurity & Privacy, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity

Genetic Goldmine or Legal Landmine? Tempus AI Confronts GIPA Exposure

February 26, 2026 By Sara Pullen and John Lesko

On February 13, 2026, a putative class filed a Complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois alleging that Tempus AI, Inc. (“Tempus AI”) violated the Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act (410 ILCS 513/1 et seq., “GIPA”). The plaintiffs claim Tempus AI unlawfully obtained and disclosed genetic information belonging to customers […]

Filed Under: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Consumer Protection/FTC, HIPAA/Health Information Privacy, Security & Breach Response, Privacy & Cybersecurity Litigation Tagged With: Big Data, Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act (GIPA)

Spanish DPA Releases Agentic AI Guidance

February 23, 2026 By Alice Portnoy and Wim Nauwelaerts

On 18 February 2026, the Spanish Data Protection Authority (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos or ‘AEPD’) published an 81‑page guidance document on the privacy aspects of AI systems operating as agents – commonly referred to as ‘agentic AI’. The guidance is aimed at companies that process personal data under the EU General Data Protection […]

Filed Under: AI Cybersecurity & Privacy, Artificial Intelligence (AI), European Privacy & Cybersecurity Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Data Protection, EU Data Protection, EU Privacy, GDPR Implementation

Federal Court Rules using AI Tools can Waive Privilege, Even if Privileged Information is Input into Them

February 16, 2026 By Daniel Felz, Dorian Simmons and Christian Seremetis

On February 10, 2026, the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York held that a criminal defendant could not claim attorney-client privilege over documents he produced using a commercially available artificial intelligence (“AI”) tool – even though he had input privileged information from his lawyers into the tool. This case is […]

Filed Under: AI Cybersecurity & Privacy, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tagged With: AI, Evidence, Litigation, Privilege

FTC Reverses Rytr Consent Order Amid Push for Federal AI Standards

February 3, 2026 By Kathleen Benway, Alex Brown, Jennifer Everett, Daniel Felz and Lili Song

On December 22, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) set aside its 2024 consent order against Rytr, a generative AI-powered company, concluding that the original complaint “failed to satisfy the legal requirements of the FTC Act” and that the order unduly burdened AI innovation in violation of the Trump Administration’s January 2025 AI Executive Order […]

Filed Under: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Consumer Protection/FTC, Privacy & Cyber Regulatory Enforcement Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), The White House, US State Law

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