Senate Commerce Committee Advances KOSA and Children’s AI Safety Bills
The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation voted on 5 August 2026 to advance a package of children’s online safety and AI-related bills to the full Senate. The measures include an updated version of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) along with three newer proposals focused on artificial intelligence: the Youth AI Privacy […]
NAI Releases Practical ‘Dos and Don’ts’ Guidance for AI and Agentic Workflows in Adtech
Advertising technology companies have spent more than a decade refining machine learning models, predictive optimization engines, and automated bidding systems. Yet the sudden leap into generative AI and fully agentic workflows is creating governance questions that earlier generations of adtech AI never fully raised. In response, the Network Advertising Initiative has issued a new voluntary […]
The AI Audit Illusion
By any superficial metric, corporate America’s response to artificial intelligence appears disciplined, proactive, and fully funded. Budgets have been allocated, executive committees formed, and acceptable-use policies distributed across enterprise networks. Yet, beneath this surface-level activity lies a dangerous operational paradox—a profound disconnect between perceived regulatory readiness and actual control over non-deterministic systems. Why Enterprise Leadership […]
The DPA You Trust May Not Show You the Full AI Picture
A privacy officer signs off on a new SaaS vendor after reviewing its data processing agreement. The DPA names one AI subprocessor, the risk gets logged, the contract gets executed. What the DPA doesn’t say is that the vendor’s AI feature actually routes data through two or three additional AI providers further down the chain, […]
Can We Teach AI Agents to Respect Human Rights Before They Act?
As AI systems move from answering questions to taking actions—booking travel, filing patents, managing workflows, or coordinating across tools—the gap between abstract principles and real-world behavior is becoming harder to ignore. Chatbots mostly affect the person prompting them. Agentic systems can affect people who never interacted with the model at all. That shift demands more […]
EU AI Act Enforcement Begins
There are some key aspects of the EU AI Act. that are now being enforced. The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act has entered a new and significantly more consequential phase. Beginning 2 August 2026, the European Commission’s AI Office and national authorities can enforce major provisions of the EU AI Act. New transparency requirements also […]
AI Chatbot Regulation: How U.S., EU and U.K. Rules Are Taking Shape
AI chatbots are now handling customer complaints, offering health guidance, screening applicants and building personal relationships with users. The law has not settled on one way to regulate them, leaving companies to navigate a growing mix of AI, privacy, consumer protection and child safety rules. Luckily there’s a team of compliance software experts who can […]
Practical AI Governance in Today’s AI Environment
Artificial intelligence governance can no longer be treated as a future policy project. Companies are already using AI to write software, evaluate applicants, communicate with customers, analyze contracts, detect fraud, generate advertising, summarize confidential documents and make recommendations that affect employees and consumers. At the same time, AI systems are becoming more autonomous. They can […]
What Is Zero Data Retention? ZDR Explained
Every prompt your employees send to an AI model is a disclosure. It may contain customer records, source code, deal terms, health information, or privileged legal analysis, and the moment it leaves your network, a new question attaches to it: how long does the model provider keep it, who can access it, and what happens […]
Shadow AI and Hidden Subprocessors: The Compliance Blind Spot Putting Organizations at Risk
As organizations race to mature their AI governance programs, a quiet but serious gap is opening between the vendors they trust and the actual data processing happening behind the scenes. New research reveals that a majority of technology providers are failing to fully disclose the AI systems and subprocessors operating within their stacks—creating compliance exposure […]