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A/76/380: Freedom of thought — report of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights · Authoritative international human-rights interpretation
Does not itself enact a standalone global statutory right named cognitive liberty or resolve every application to AI inference.
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International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights · Primary international legal instrument
Does not use the modern umbrella term cognitive liberty or specify all AI-era implementation duties.
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Allied Command Transformation develops the Cognitive Warfare Concept
NATO Allied Command Transformation · Official NATO command publication
Does not make every research paper formal NATO doctrine, prove universal national adoption, or authorize domestic population control.
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Ley 21.383 — scientific and technological development in service of people
Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile · Primary national legal text
Does not create a universal global cognitive-liberty code or settle all secondary implementing legislation.
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HB24-1058 — Protect Privacy of Biological Data
Colorado General Assembly · Primary state legislative record
Does not cover every mental-state inference, every entity, or a complete standalone cognitive-liberty right.
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SB 1223 — Consumer privacy: sensitive personal information: neural data
California Legislative Information · Primary state legislative record
Does not regulate all cognitive inference, workplace monitoring, or government use in one comprehensive code.
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Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — Artificial Intelligence Act
European Union · Primary legal text
Does not prohibit all affective computing or apply identically outside EU scope and transition rules.
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Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 — Digital Services Act
European Union · Primary legal text
Does not eliminate moderation error, mandate identical platform ranking, or operate as a global speech code.
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Illinois Public Act 103-0804 — AI in employment under the Human Rights Act
Illinois General Assembly · Primary state legal text
Does not create a general right against every automated decision or every form of workplace monitoring.
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Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, 740 ILCS 14
Illinois General Assembly · Primary state legal text
Does not cover all inferred emotions, thoughts, neural data, photographs, or every public-sector use.
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Emotional Expressions Reconsidered: Challenges to Inferring Emotion From Human Facial Movements
Psychological Science in the Public Interest · High-quality scientific synthesis
Does not imply all physiological or multimodal measurement is useless in every clinical or research context.
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Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0)
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology · Authoritative technical governance framework
Is voluntary and does not itself create legal rights or substitute for sector-specific law.
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Meta Final Update: Israel and Palestine Human Rights Due Diligence
Meta · First-party record describing independent due-diligence follow-up
Does not independently resolve all claims of bias, prove equal outcomes, or cover every Meta product and conflict context.
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FTC Launches Inquiry into AI Chatbots Acting as Companions
U.S. Federal Trade Commission · Primary regulator record
An inquiry is not an adjudication, final finding, or proof that every companion product causes dependency or harm.
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Recommendation on the Ethics of Neurotechnology
UNESCO · Authoritative UNESCO normative instrument; recommendation rather than binding treaty
Does not enact a binding universal cognitive-liberty statute, resolve domestic implementation, or establish that any particular inference system is accurate.
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OECD Neurotechnology Toolkit
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development · Authoritative OECD policy toolkit supporting a Council recommendation
Does not create binding law for all jurisdictions or prove that recommended safeguards have been implemented in any particular product or workplace.
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AI Act regulatory framework and implementation timeline
European Commission · Primary EU institutional currentness source
Does not make all obligations immediately applicable, eliminate exceptions, prove provider compliance, or provide legal advice for a particular deployment.
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How the Digital Services Act enhances content moderation transparency and appeals
European Commission · Primary EU institutional implementation source
Does not supply an all-decision denominator, platform-wide error rate, universal accessibility finding, or proof that every downstream strike, ranking, cache, income, or audience effect was repaired.
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Illinois Department of Human Rights temporarily withdraws proposed AI employment rules
Seyfarth Shaw LLP · Secondary legal analysis; underlying statute remains the primary authority
Does not substitute for the enacted statute, establish the contents of any future rule, or provide an official final agency disposition. Independent official rulemaking confirmation remains a reopening trigger.
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Public Act 103-0769: Biometric Information Privacy Act amendment
Illinois General Assembly · Primary Illinois enacted text
Does not eliminate BIPA duties, decide every pending case, or extend BIPA to every behavioral or mental-state inference.
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Face Recognition Vendor Test Part 3: Demographic Effects (NISTIR 8280)
National Institute of Standards and Technology · Primary NIST technical evaluation
Does not establish that every algorithm has identical error patterns, that identity matching reveals emotion or intent, or that laboratory results automatically predict every field deployment.
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Accelerating AI Innovation Through Measurement Science
National Institute of Standards and Technology · Primary NIST research and evaluation guidance
Does not validate any particular emotion, deception, loyalty, productivity, or vulnerability model and is not a certification of a deployed system.
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ICO orders Serco Leisure to stop biometric employee-attendance monitoring
UK Information Commissioner's Office · Primary data-protection enforcement record
Does not establish universal unlawfulness of all workplace biometrics, represent every worker's experience, or resolve law outside the United Kingdom.
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Seldom Heard Voices: ethnic minority groups and gig economy workers' experiences
UK Information Commissioner's Office / Thinks Insight & Strategy · Primary public research report with explicit qualitative sample limits
Does not provide a representative prevalence estimate for all ethnic-minority groups or gig workers, prove platform intent, or establish the outcome of a specific appeal.
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iTutorGroup to pay $365,000 to settle EEOC discriminatory hiring suit
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Primary agency litigation and settlement record
A settlement does not establish every alleged fact through trial, represent all automated hiring systems, or prove that every older applicant was affected in the same way.
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Rite Aid facial-recognition case and modified order
U.S. Federal Trade Commission · Primary agency enforcement record
Does not prove every allegation through a contested trial, establish the error rate of every face-recognition system, or extend the order beyond its parties and terms.
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Examining the Examiners: Students' Privacy and Security Perceptions of Online Proctoring Services
USENIX Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security · Primary research with disclosed sample and method
Does not represent all students, all disabilities, all proctoring products, or prove that every flagged event was erroneous or discriminatory.
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Avoiding the Discriminatory Use of Artificial Intelligence
U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights · Primary agency guidance; examples are illustrative rather than adjudicated findings
Does not adjudicate a specific school, replace statutory text, or prove that every example occurred in practice.
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Reclaimed Term in Drag Performance
Oversight Board · Independent platform oversight record; one illustrative appeal
Does not provide a platform-wide error rate, measure lost income, or establish that every reclaimed-term removal is wrongful.
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Referring to Designated Dangerous Individuals as 'Shaheed'
Oversight Board · Independent platform oversight analysis with stakeholder input
Does not bind all platforms, establish every removal's intent, or prove that every use of the term is benign.
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Al-Shifa Hospital
Oversight Board · Independent platform oversight record; one crisis-context case
Does not establish a universal platform pattern, determine every factual claim in the underlying conflict, or prove strategic effect from the removal.
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User Experiences of Social Support From Companion Chatbots in Everyday Contexts
Journal of Medical Internet Research / PubMed · Primary research using public reviews and a self-selected user sample
Does not establish clinical efficacy, long-term causal benefit, population prevalence, or safety for crisis or therapeutic use.
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Overlapping Uses of AI Companions and AI Assistants
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · Primary HCI research with high-engagement, self-selected participants
Does not represent typical users, establish population prevalence, prove clinical benefit or harm, or resolve long-term dependency and disengagement outcomes.
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Consumer Financial Protection Circular 2022-03: adverse action notification when creditors use complex algorithms
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Primary agency interpretation of existing adverse-action duties
The circular was withdrawn on 2025-05-12, is not current CFPB guidance, does not govern every sector, and does not repeal or fully define the underlying statutory and regulatory duties.
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Challenges to the Monitoring of Deployed AI Systems (NIST AI 800-4)
National Institute of Standards and Technology · Primary NIST post-deployment evaluation guidance
Does not certify any particular system, define settled best practice for every sector, or prove that monitoring alone prevents harm.
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Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 amending the AI Act and related regulations
European Union / EUR-Lex · Primary enacted European Union legal text
Does not erase the AI Act, make all obligations immediately applicable, settle every exception, or supply legal advice for a particular system.
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Code of Practice and Commission guidance on transparency of AI-generated content
European Commission · Primary EU institutional implementation source
Does not prove compliance by any provider, make voluntary code participation universal, or establish the accuracy of a particular detection method.
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Breast Cancer Awareness Content
Oversight Board · Public independent oversight record with case-specific restoration outcome
Does not establish a platform-wide error rate, complete downstream reach repair, compensation, or long-term prevention of repeat errors.
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Reporting on Somaliland Current Affairs
Oversight Board · Public independent oversight record with page, post, and strike restoration
Does not establish complete repair of audience, income, reputation, or chilling effects, or a platform-wide prevalence rate for Somali-language enforcement error.
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Comment on Kenyan Politics Using a Designated Slur
Oversight Board · Public independent oversight record with policy-list currentness finding
Does not establish that every use of the term is harmless, that every language list is inaccurate, or that restoration repaired all prior visibility and participation effects.
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Decision and Order in the Matter of IntelliVision Technologies Corp.
U.S. Federal Trade Commission · Primary agency enforcement order
Does not independently validate the product, establish every alleged fact through contested trial, or convert testing documentation into field-validity certification.
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Dispositivos neurotecnológicos: usos, regulación y antecedentes del caso Emotiv Insight
Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile · Primary Chilean legislative research/currentness source
Does not establish comprehensive compliance, universal coverage of consumer neurotechnology, or that all ordered data deletion and downstream repair were independently verified.
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Louis et al. v. SafeRent Solutions settlement administration record
Court-authorized settlement administrator · Public settlement-administration record; settlement is not an admission of liability
Does not establish liability through trial, prove the validity or invalidity of every tenant-screening model, or show that all housing, credit, and downstream profile consequences were repaired.
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Withdrawn Guidance — CFPB circulars and supervisory guidance
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Primary agency source for withdrawal status
Does not repeal ECOA or Regulation B, decide the underlying statutory duties, or create a cross-sector explanation right.
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Rite Aid: Modified Decision and Order
U.S. Federal Trade Commission · Primary remedy and downstream-propagation source
Does not prove every third party completed deletion, every downstream copy was repaired, or every alleged harm was compensated.