04/19/2026
Is AI a Threat to Privacy Rights?
Mark R. Osherow, Esq. Artificial intelligence is a threat to privacy rights, but not simply because it collects more information. Its deeper threat is doctrinal. AI changes what counts as a privacy injury. Traditional privacy law often focused on collection, disclosure, and misuse of identifiable information. AI shifts the problem toward inference, aggregation, prediction, and replication. A system may learn intimate facts without a direct disclosure, generate a synthetic substitute for a person, or affect a person through automated scoring and categorization....
Mark R. Osherow, Esq. Artificial intelligence is a threat to privacy rights, but not simply because it collects more information. Its deeper threat is doctrinal. AI changes what counts as a privacy…