On a preliminary record, the Ninth Circuit made the user, not Perplexity, the party accessing Amazon under the CFAA and California’s CDAFA. The records of that access can sit partly with an outside operator that no litigation hold reaches by default.
Ninth Circuit vacates Amazon injunction; AI agent logs emerge as eDiscovery issue Read More »
Read the recent AI evaluation disclosures involving four labs as one repeated failure and you get it wrong. A novel exploit, a misconfiguration and a leaky allowlist are different problems, but they share a weak layer, an unanswered liability question, and a preservation gap that lands on legal and information governance teams.
Recent AI evaluation incidents expose gaps in containment, configuration and evidence Read More »
California’s AI Transparency Act became operative Aug. 2, the same day most of the EU’s Article 50 duties began applying. The disclosure duties are live, the platform stripping ban waits until 2027, and the provenance disclosures both regimes require can be lost in routine eDiscovery processing.
California’s AI Transparency Act arrives alongside Europe’s Article 50 Read More »
Federal water sector alerts tell utilities to inspect compromised PLC environments and restore safely. They leave the authority, method and sequence for preserving potentially relevant controller evidence largely to local response plans.
In a landmark eDiscovery decision, a federal court approved an AI-assisted review workflow and declined to require extensive disclosure of validation metrics. The ruling in Schulte v. LinkedIn signals growing judicial acceptance of AI in document review while reinforcing the importance of proportionality, reasonableness, and carefully negotiated ESI protocols
“Search, Forward” with AI: Court Approves AI-Assisted Review Workflow for eDiscovery Read More »
The European Commission fined Google €890 million and required compliance within 60 days. The harder problem is evidentiary: gatekeepers face growing pressure to document how ranking decisions were made, not simply to change them.
Google’s €890 million DMA penalty package starts a 60-day compliance clock Read More »
A new DOJ and DHS enforcement guide and a $1 billion task force tally signal that U.S. customs scrutiny now reaches deep into Europe’s supply chains. Here is what the region’s exporters, compliance teams, and eDiscovery professionals should do before the rules harden.
US trade fraud enforcement reaches into Europe’s supply chains Read More »
June HSR reported transactions fall to 193 as preliminary FY2026 total reaches 1,858 ComplexDiscovery Staff The FTC’s Premerger Notification Office recorded 193 HSR-reported transactions in June 2026, a 17.9% step down from May’s 235 — the highest monthly total since
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The Justice Department and Homeland Security released a joint trade fraud enforcement guide as their task force’s combined tally of recoveries, penalties, forfeitures and charged losses exceeded $1 billion, giving importers and compliance teams a clearer view of federal enforcement priorities.
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Federal prosecutors called Angelo Martino a double agent: hired to negotiate with BlackCat, he armed the attackers with his clients’ insurance limits while five victims paid $75.3 million, court records show. His 70-month sentence puts the breach-response supply chain on notice.
The negotiator was the leak: insider who betrayed ransomware victims gets 70 months Read More »
Tara Emory and Maura Grossman argue that GenAI TAR prompts refined through iterative testing can embody attorney work product and should rarely face compelled disclosure, with validation metrics carrying the transparency load instead.
Generative AI is narrowing the chasm between law and medicine — and reshaping what ABA Rule 1.1 competence requires of counsel handling clinical records, malpractice defense, and healthcare investigations.
When the lawyer needs a translator: GenAI as a bridge between law and medicine Read More »
