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AI NIST’s Warning on Agentic AI: If You Hand the Bot Your Password, You Already Lost
Companies are standing up AI agents the way they once stood up shadow SaaS.
DATA Flock Cameras, Two Briefs: What a CPO Sees and What Public Safety Sees
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said this week that automated license-plate readers have gotten “out of control.” He supports tools that catch criminals.…
AI Inside 750,000 Claude Conversations: Anthropic Opens AI Usage Data to Independent Researchers
Artificial intelligence companies know more than almost anyone else about how people actually use advanced AI systems.
AI The Missing Control in AI Governance: Protecting Human Judgment in an Automated World
Most artificial intelligence governance programs are being built around familiar objectives: comply with emerging laws, document foreseeable risks, test system performance, establish…
Former Airline Employees Concerned About Personal Data After Google’s Purchase: The Risks Nobody Priced In
Spirit Airlines stopped flying in May 2026, its second bankruptcy filing in two years finally catching up with it after roughly 17,000…
DATA Global Privacy Control: What is it & Why it Matters
If you’ve been online, you’ve probably seen the term GPC and wondered what it means.
AI Will Not Sign the Brief. Lawyers Still Do. A Working Guide to Ethics and Governance
Lawyers sit on both sides of the table. They tell the C-suite how to buy and govern AI. They also paste client…
Brazil’s Data Regulator Says Deepfake Risk Starts Long Before the Fake Video
Spotting a fake clip is not the whole job. Brazil’s National Data Protection Agency made that case in the sixth issue of…
NIST Says Cybersecurity Programs Fail When They Treat People as the Problem
A password policy so painful people write the password on a sticky note.
The Secrets You Tell a Chatbot Are Becoming a Product Feature
Picture a chatbot designed to keep you in the thread a little longer.
Healthcare AI Deals Fail When Privacy Enters After the Demo
The request usually arrives late. A vendor has already demoed well. Clinical or operations leaders like the time savings. Security may have…
GOVERNANCE RISK AND COMPLIANCE TaxAct’s $275,000 Privacy Settlement Shows Regulators Are Moving From Privacy Policies to Continuous Tracker Monitoring
A new privacy settlement involving TaxAct, Meta and Google offers businesses one of the clearest examples yet of how regulators expect companies…