Being able to share health records digitally has improved patient care, but it’s also made it easier for bad actors to abuse that data.

Epic Systems, which operates the largest electronic health records system in the country, filed a lawsuit in California this week accusing a set of data brokers and other entities of masquerading as medical treatment facilities in order to pull nearly 300,000 patient records. The suit alleges those companies inappropriately monetized the data, for instance, by selling it to attorneys looking for people to join class action lawsuits.

The scope of the alleged fraud could actually be much greater. And most patients likely have no idea their data was ever stolen.

President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota as protests against immigration agents continue in the wake of Renee Good’s killing. Trump has already sent military troops to other U.S. cities, but sending them under the Insurrection Act, which gives presidents broad authority to use the U.S. military to quell insurrections and other rebellions, would be more difficult to challenge in court.

Elon Musk’s X will restrict its AI chatbot Grok from generating images of real people in revealing clothing, as it has drawn scrutiny for making sexualized images of children. The change comes after California’s attorney general opened an investigation into X over the “proliferation of nonconsensual sexually explicit material produced using Grok.”

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