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AI EU Commission’s 2027 Work Programme: Digital Package, Industrial AI, and the Fight Over Gold-Plating
On November 4, 2026, the European Commission published its 2027 work programme and, with it, a map of which digital and AI…
AI Apple Watch’s Live Rewind Doesn’t Save Audio. Two-Party Consent Laws May Still Apply
Apple’s newest Apple Watch features are built on a promise that sounds simple: no recording exists.
AI EU Leaders Hold Their First AI-Only Meeting in Dublin. The Agenda Puts Sovereignty Ahead of Safety, and Privacy in Between
For the first time, the European Union’s heads of state and government will sit down for a discussion devoted entirely to artificial…
AI Children Already Confide in Chatbots. A New Survey Tests Whether the EU KIDS Act Draws Its Age Lines in the Right Place
The European Union is about to decide how old a child must be to use social media, and the debate has mostly…
AI Gartner’s 15% Agentic AI Forecast Is Back in Circulation. The Employment Rules It Runs Into Are New
A forecast that AI agents will make “at least 15% of day-to-day work decisions” by 2028 is now circulating again, this time…
DATA Neural Data Laws Now Cover Six U.S. States. They Don’t Agree on What Neural Data Is
A few years ago, “neural data” was a phrase for ethics papers.
AI Bavaria’s Privacy Regulator Puts AI Agents on Its 2027 Audit List: What Its New GDPR Guidance Asks
Bavaria’s data protection authority for the private sector has told companies where it will be looking next year.
AI Britain’s New AI Framework Puts Sovereignty First. What That Means for Data, Compute and Compliance Teams
The UK government has settled on a short phrase to describe how it wants artificial intelligence to develop in Britain: control and…
GOVERNANCE RISK AND COMPLIANCE The NCSC’s Tenth Annual Review Counts 80 Nationally Significant Incidents. Privacy Teams Should Read Past the Headline
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre published its tenth Annual Review on November 3, 2026, covering the twelve months from 1 September…
LAW FIRMS Legal Engineers Are Rewiring Law Firms for AI. Someone Has to Govern the Client Data They Move
For most of the last two decades, the people who knew how a law firm’s software worked and the people who knew…
AI When AI Use Becomes a KPI, Usage Logs Become Employee Monitoring Data
A growing number of employers have stopped encouraging AI use and started requiring it.
AI Guernsey’s Privacy Survey: Children’s Safety Tops Worries, and Few Can Spot AI
Small jurisdictions make good laboratories. Guernsey has roughly the population of a mid-sized town, its own data protection law and a regulator…