Companies are at increased risk of violating Europe’s tough privacy laws because boards have little awareness of the different types of AI or their inherent risks. While many organizations are more familiar with predictive and conversational AI tools, such as chatbots that carry little or no discernible risk, they have not grasped that generative AI—and especially agentic AI—are different animals.
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No new rules as U.K. financial services sector champions AI
There are no new rules on the horizon as U.K. financial services firms embrace “AI-enabled, continuous and delegated services,” but a report warns that the technology could reshape the sector by 2030 in terms of how firms operate, consumers make decisions, markets compete, and risks emerge.
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AI, Data, and the Compliance Mandate: Lessons from APAC
AI governance is no longer a future-state exercise. It is a current control environment issue.
Posted inSurveys & Benchmarking
Does the compliance function influence business strategy in your organization? Two in every three compliance officers say yes.
Two of every three respondents to the Inside the Mind of the CCO survey reported that the compliance function influences business strategy within their organization.
Posted inArtificial Intelligence
Littler Survey: AI and data privacy issues top of mind for employers
AI ranked as the top issue that’s expected to impact workplace policy changes over the next 12 months, even more so than DEI)and immigration enforcement matters, according to findings from law firm Littler’s 14th Annual Employer Survey.
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Compliance officers grapple with AI risks as upper management pushes adoption
It’s clear that AI is a reality for compliance. Introducing new technology slowly was the norm, but AI has been given the fast track in organizations both big and small, across all industries.
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The Tower of Babel and compliance role in AI governance
Recently,Pope Leo XIV issued his first Papal Encyclical Letter, titled Magnifica Humanitas “On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence.” The document places AI within the long tradition of Catholic social teaching and asks how humanity should respond to the “new things” of the digital age. I wanted to review it from a compliance angle.
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Inside the Mind of the CCO survey finds most compliance teams allow AI use, but governance lags behind
AI use in compliance is here, and it is worrying compliance professionals, according to CW’s Inside the Mind of the CCO survey.
Posted inData Privacy
ICO lists five steps to help companies protect themselves from AI cyber threats
Companies have long prioritized cybersecurity as a key risk to their operations, but AI’s ability to increase the number, speed, severity, and types of attacks has prompted the U.K.’s regulator to set out five practical steps that organizations can take to strengthen their resilience against AI-powered threats and cyberattacks.
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Deepfakes, synthetic identities and the new era of professional misrepresentation
The most trusted organizations do not just sell products. They sell judgement, discretion and trust. That trust is now being actively tested by AI-enabled deception — at scale, and at the onboarding stage, precisely when verification decisions are made. Artificial intelligence is no longer a future risk. It is already being used to manufacture identities: […]
