Tag: Legislation
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A South Dakota Digital Loophole Closed: How SB 41 Arms Law Enforcement to Take Down Creators & Distributors of AI Deepfakes
Why This Concerns You When hyper-realistic, explicit deepfakes of celebrities like Taylor Swift flooded the internet, it brought federal outrage to the deepfake crisis. But pop stars aren’t the reason South Dakota is finally rewriting its criminal code. While the cameras were focused on Hollywood, the actual casualties were piling up in local high schools…
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Your DNA For Sale : How SB 49 Empowers South Dakotans on the Genetic Frontier
Just a few decades ago, human DNA was a mystery unraveled only in highly secured, sterile laboratories. The first Human Genome Project took 13 years and billions of dollars just to map a single genetic sequence. Today? You can spit half a teaspoon of raw saliva into a plastic tube, mail it to a tech…