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This Article is the first to examine the risk that attorneys’ use of generative artificial intelligence (“AI”) in legal practice poses to personal data and offer a comparison of the American Bar Association’s (“A.B.A.”) and European Union’s (“EU”) differing approaches to providing guardrails for the use of AI technology. It is also the first to …

The murder of Daniel Anderl, the son of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas, exposed the ease with which publicly available personal data can be weaponized against members of the judiciary. In response, Congress enacted the Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act, and several states adopted analogous statutes—commonly known as “Daniel’s Laws”—to restrict the dissemination …

You stand on a city street corner, and a driverless robotaxi crosses the road in front of you. To operate safely, the robotaxi identifies you as a person, tracks your movements, determines your relative location, and stores data about you. What are your privacy interests in these data? This Article examines the “third-party privacy problem”—a …

Therapy and companionship have become the number-one use case for generative artificial intelligence chatbots in 2025. Talking to artificial intelligence (“AI”) “companions”—digital personas designed to provide emotional support, show empathy, and proactively ask users personal questions through text, voice notes, and picture—is no longer a niche service but has become mainstream, with users numbering in …