Is It Safe to Use AI for HR and Personnel Writing?
Performance reviews, warnings, and terminations contain some of the most sensitive data you handle. What is safe to run through AI, and what must stay local.
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28 articles tagged Legal. For the wider topic, see Privacy & Compliance.
Performance reviews, warnings, and terminations contain some of the most sensitive data you handle. What is safe to run through AI, and what must stay local.
Read article →SB 947 would bar California employers from firing workers on an algorithm's word alone. What it covers, what it does not, and the deadline that matters now.
Read article →California, New York, and the EU each added AI disclosure duties in 2026. Here is a three-question test to tell which ones actually apply to your work.
Read article →The EU AI Office can now fine general-purpose AI providers. Whether a provider signed the Code of Practice is a due-diligence signal you can actually check.
Read article →Article 50 requires labeling AI-generated text in some cases, not all. Here is exactly which published text needs it, and which everyday drafting does not.
Read article →California just started regulating who is allowed to call themselves an AI auditor. Here is what SB 813 and AB 1405 actually change, and when.
Read article →Agentic commerce lets an assistant place orders for you. When it buys the wrong thing or gets manipulated, who pays? What is settled and how to protect yourself.
Read article →Chat histories can be treated like any other business record in litigation. What that means for what you paste into a prompt, in plain terms.
Read article →Accountability does not transfer to a tool when an agent acts on your behalf. How to frame ownership for teams, and why human review is an accountability control.
Read article →France's CNIL published an exploratory note on agentic AI and personal data in July 2026. What it flags, what it does not decide, and how to read it.
Read article →Vendor privacy pages are written to reassure. Five specific questions that produce answers you can act on, and what an evasive response tells you.
Read article →Open weights is not open source, not a promise of privacy, and not a licence to do anything. What the term actually covers, and the four things people wrongly assume.
Read article →Courts have largely accepted that training is transformative. The live question is now what the model produces and who is liable for it, which reaches ordinary users.
Read article →Data protection authorities and the AI Office now cover overlapping ground. What that means when you choose where your text gets processed.
Read article →From 2 August 2026 the Commission can investigate general-purpose AI providers, demand model access, and fine them. What that means for the companies you buy AI from.
Read article →Colorado delayed, California finalized, Illinois took effect. A patchwork of state AI employment rules is now the practical constraint for US employers.
Read article →Transparency obligations, general-purpose AI enforcement, and the full penalty regime take effect. High-risk duties were deferred. What applies to an ordinary business using AI writing tools.
Read article →High-risk obligations moved to December 2027 and August 2028. Why the deferral happened, what it changes, and why treating it as breathing room is the wrong reading.
Read article →Apache 2.0, MIT, Llama community licenses, and research-only terms give you very different rights. A plain-English guide to what you can legally do with a downloaded model.
Read article →Client contracts increasingly restrict AI use. Here is how to read the common clause types, what they cover, and how to stay compliant without giving up tooling.
Read article →You signed the NDA personally. Here is how to use AI writing tools without breaching client confidentiality, and what to put in your own contracts.
Read article →Nine things to establish before your team uses an AI writing tool on anything containing personal data, from lawful basis to transfers to the record of processing.
Read article →Where AI writing tools sit under HIPAA, why a BAA is the deciding factor, what counts as PHI in an ordinary email, and how on-device processing changes the analysis.
Read article →Ending a contract cleanly: which clause you are using, the effective date, and what happens to work in progress. Plus the sentences to leave out.
Read article →Vendors say zero retention, no training, and enterprise grade. Here is what each claim covers, what it quietly excludes, and the questions that get you a straight answer.
Read article →How attorneys and paralegals are navigating the ethical complexities of AI by adopting secure, local tools for document review and drafting.
Read article →A deep dive into the legal and ethical conflicts between standard Non-Disclosure Agreements and the use of public cloud AI services.
Read article →Legal professionals handle highly sensitive client data. Here is why using cloud-based AI grammar tools might violate confidentiality, and how local AI solves the problem.
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