{"id":219054,"date":"2026-03-02T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/the-law-bytes-podcast-episode-259-the-privacy-and-surveillance-risks-of-ai-chatbot-reporting-to-police\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T09:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:30:13","slug":"the-law-bytes-podcast-episode-259-the-privacy-and-surveillance-risks-of-ai-chatbot-reporting-to-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/the-law-bytes-podcast-episode-259-the-privacy-and-surveillance-risks-of-ai-chatbot-reporting-to-police\/","title":{"rendered":"The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 259: The Privacy and Surveillance Risks of AI Chatbot Reporting to Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgeist.ca\/2026\/03\/the-law-bytes-podcast-episode-259-the-privacy-and-surveillance-risks-of-ai-chatbot-reporting-to-police\/\">The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 259: The Privacy and Surveillance Risks of AI Chatbot Reporting to Police<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgeist.ca\/2026\/03\/the-law-bytes-podcast-episode-259-the-privacy-and-surveillance-risks-of-ai-chatbot-reporting-to-police\/\">https:\/\/www.michaelgeist.ca\/2026\/03\/the-law-bytes-podcast-episode-259-the-privacy-and-surveillance-risks-of-ai-chatbot-reporting-to-police\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-02 08:25:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.michaelgeist.ca\">www.michaelgeist.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What a great read by @stephen_wolfram@twitter.com \ud83d\ude0e \u201cWhat is ChatGPT doing\u2026 and why does it work?\u201d by David Roessli  CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2oEJVLM<\/p>\n<p>Over the past ten days, Canada has witnessed one of the fastest-moving technology policy debates in recent memory. What began as reporting about a tragic act of violence \u2013 the shootings in Tumbler Ridge, BC \u2013\u00a0 quickly evolved into questions about AI safety, corporate responsibility, police reporting obligations, and now potential AI regulation.<\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s Law Bytes podcast is a bit different from the norm. Building off my Globe and Mail op-ed, I walk through what has happened thus far, examine the potential policy responses, and explain why both the Online Harms Act and current AI legislative models are poorly suited to this problem, and argue that Canada instead needs to start thinking seriously instead about an AI Transparency Act.<\/p>\n<p>The podcast can be downloaded here, accessed on YouTube, and is embedded below. Subscribe to the podcast via Apple Podcast, Spotify or the RSS feed. Updates on the podcast on X\/Twitter at @Lawbytespod.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"castos-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/lawbytes.castos.com\/player\/2380073\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Credits:<\/p>\n<p>CBC News, OpenAI Must be More Clear About Commitment to Change: AI Minister, February 27, 2026<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgeist.ca\/2026\/03\/the-law-bytes-podcast-episode-259-the-privacy-and-surveillance-risks-of-ai-chatbot-reporting-to-police\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 259: The Privacy and Surveillance Risks of AI Chatbot Reporting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.michaelgeist.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/screenshot_4085.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219056,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219054\/revisions\/219056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}