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New Lawsuit Against AI Notetaker Raises Privacy and Compliance Risks for Employers
On August 15, 2025, Brewer v. Otter.ai , a proposed class action lawsuit, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District...
Mark Addington
Aug 232 min read
AI and Hiring Integrity: Why Many Employers Are Returning to In-Person Interviews
What is happening On August 12, 2025, the Wall Street Journal reported that a growing number of employers are moving interviews back into...
Mark Addington
Aug 132 min read
Florida Businesses and the TRAIN Act: Why a New AI Copyright Bill Matters
The Transparency and Responsibility for Artificial Intelligence Networks Act (TRAIN Act) (S. 2455) was recently introduced in the U.S....
Mark Addington
Aug 83 min read
Meta’s Fair Use Win in Kadrey v. Meta Offers Limited Comfort for AI Training—and Caution for Florida Businesses
On June 25, 2025, Judge Vince Chhabria dismissed thirteen authors’ core infringement claim against Meta Platforms, finding that copying...
Mark Addington
Aug 72 min read
When ChatGPT Conversations Go Public: What Florida Businesses Need to Know About Google Indexing
What happened TechCrunch reported that thousands of ChatGPT conversations made available through the platform’s “share” feature were...
Mark Addington
Aug 52 min read
Navigating AI Regulation: What Florida Businesses Need to Know
Federal and State AI Regulation: A Broad Overview Congress and federal agencies have begun debating comprehensive AI governance. At the...
Mark Addington
Jul 313 min read
White House Releases America’s AI Action Plan and Three Executive Orders: What Florida Businesses Should Know
On July 23, 2025, the White House published “Winning the AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan,” a 26-page roadmap outlining more than...
Mark Addington
Jul 282 min read
European Industry Pushes Back on the EU AI Act: Is Regulation Moving Too Fast?
As the European Union prepares to implement its landmark Artificial Intelligence Act, business leaders across the continent are urging...
Mark Addington
Jul 93 min read
Meta’s AI Fair Use Win, but Anthropic Shows the Limits
Two judges in the Northern District of California have issued the first detailed decisions on whether copying books to train a large...
Mark Addington
Jul 32 min read
States Now Free to Regulate Workplace AI: What Florida Employers Should Know
On June 28, the U.S. Senate voted 99–1 to remove a proposed five-year moratorium on state regulation of artificial intelligence. The vote...
Mark Addington
Jul 12 min read
AI Call-Monitoring Under Fire: What Galanter v. Cresta Intelligence Means for Florida Employers
A recently filed class action, Galanter v. Cresta Intelligence Inc. , No. 3:25-cv-05007 (N.D. Cal. June 13 2025) , alleges that Cresta’s...
Mark Addington
Jul 12 min read
When the Applicant Isn't Real: Employers Confront a New AI Risk
Hiring practices are being quietly tested in ways few employers anticipated. With the rapid advancement of generative AI, it’s now...
Mark Addington
Jun 303 min read
Anthropic AI's Fair Use Victory Comes With A Significant Piracy Caveat
AI Anthropic - Claude In a significant legal development, Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...
Mark Addington
Jun 271 min read
AI Meets Employment Law: Navigating Compliance Risks in HR Tech
Artificial intelligence is reshaping human resources work. Résumé-screening tools sort hundreds of applicants in seconds, video-interview...
Mark Addington
Jun 192 min read
House Proposal Would Freeze State AI Rules for a Decade: What That Means for Employers
A little noticed rider in the House’s budget reconciliation measure, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1), would bar states from...
Mark Addington
Jun 153 min read
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