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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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