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A Senate committee just advanced the first federal ban on cloning your voice or face, while the FCC moved to tie your government ID to every phone in the country.
This week the rulebook for AI moved in four directions at once: what it can take from you, who it can track, what it can be tricked into reading, and what it might owe you back.
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Subscribe on Substack ›1. A Senate committee just voted to make cloning your voice or face without permission a federal offense.
Anyone with a public photo or a few seconds of recorded voice can now be convincingly cloned, and until this week there was no federal law that said your face and voice are yours to control.
deadline.com: NO FAKES Act advances out of Senate Judiciary Committee (June 18, 2026)
rollcall.com: AI deepfakes bill advanced by Senate Judiciary Committee (June 18, 2026)
eff.org: Tell Congress: Just say no to NO FAKES (June 9, 2026)
2. The FCC wants a government ID on every phone account, which would end the anonymous phone.
If you have ever bought a cheap prepaid phone for a kid, for a trip abroad, for a safety plan, or simply because you did not want to hand a carrier a contract and an ID, this proposal would require a government ID to do any of that, and it would put your identity behind a phone…
schneier.com: The FCC wants to eliminate burner phones (June 15, 2026)
404media.co: The FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs (June 2026)
androidauthority.com: The FCC could effectively kill burner phones (June 2026)
3. A flaw in Microsoft's Copilot let a single click turn your work AI into a data thief.
If your job runs on Microsoft 365 and your company switched on Copilot, an assistant you were told to trust could be talked into reading your inbox by a link you clicked once, and you would never see it happen.
varonis.com: SearchLeak, a critical Microsoft 365 Copilot vulnerability (June 15, 2026)
thehackernews.com: One-click Microsoft 365 Copilot flaw exposed user data (June 2026)
bleepingcomputer.com: New attack turned Microsoft 365 Copilot into a 1-click data theft tool (June 2026)
4. Bernie Sanders proposed taxing the AI giants until every American gets a yearly check.
The pitch for AI has always been that it will create enormous wealth, and the question nobody in power had put on paper until this week is who actually gets it, with this bill being the first concrete answer that routes some of it back to ordinary people directly.
rollcall.com: Sovereign wealth fund, tax on AI companies unveiled by Sanders (June 18, 2026)
sanders.senate.gov: Sanders introduces legislation to create a $7 trillion AI sovereign wealth fund (June 18, 2026)
whec.com (AP): Bernie Sanders unveils plan to give the public direct ownership of AI companies (June 18, 2026)