Employees are adopting AI faster than companies can build policies, governance, and training. That gap creates compliance exposure in areas from data privacy to shadow IT to workplace equity.
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Digital wallets to speed up regulatory checks for recruitment, property transactions
You can already buy a coffee with your phone, but soon you could start a job or buy a house with it. Digital compliance wallets holding certificates and documents on smartphones are gaining traction worldwide.
Posted inRegulatory Enforcement
FTC orders AI firms to disclose safeguards for children and teens
AI chatbots are increasingly used by children and teens, prompting the FTC to order seven AI companies to explain how they monitor potential harms to minors.
Posted inData Privacy
Google hit with $425.6 million verdict in California privacy case
Google allegedly collected personal data from mobile devices without permission, violating California privacy laws, a jury ruled in awarding more than $425.6 million to class-action plaintiffs.
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Navigating top risks in the insurance industry
Cyber threats, climate-related catastrophes, and disruptive technologies remain top risks reshaping the U.S. insurance industry. The question is how chief risk officers at the nation’s largest insurers are confronting them.
Posted inData Privacy
California privacy regulator set to launch new cyber, risk assessment and automated decision rules
Businesses operating in California will need to meet new, first-in-the-nation privacy requirements for cybersecurity, risk assessments, and automated decision-making technology, under a large expansion of rules by the state.
Posted inEthics & Culture
AI governance, agentic misalignment and the lessons from ‘Star Trek’
Does sci-fi predict the future of compliance or simply provide commentary on the current state of compliance? What is the role of corporate compliance around AI governance?
Posted inData Privacy
Kentucky files suit against Temu alleging it stole state intellectual property and violated privacy
Kentucky took aim at Chinese company Temu, alleging in a lawsuit that it counterfeited popular Kentucky-designed merchandise and violated customers’ privacy.
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Cadence Design Systems pleads guilty to unlawfully exporting chip design tools to China, will pay $140M
Chip design software and hardware maker Cadence Design Systems agreed to plead guilty to unlawfully exporting semiconductor design tools to a restricted Chinese military university, the Department of Justice said in a statement. The California firm will pay over $140 million in criminal and civil pines and forfeitures, marking the latest effort by U.S. officials to restrict the flow of chip designs.
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U.K. regulator urges auditors to explain AI use in audits
Plans to push audit firms to disclose how they use AI in audits have been broadly welcomed, but concerns remain over how corporate data is used, secured, retained, and potentially exposed.