Privacy Governance

Workplace monitoring is not new. Employers have long measured attendance, productivity, location, communications, and use of company systems. Artificial intelligence introduces a more intimate possibility: technology that does not merely record what an employee does, but attempts to determine what the employee feels. California has now drawn a boundary around that possibility. On September 30,…

A private message is written for an audience and a purpose. Using it to train artificial intelligence changes that relationship. The information may already sit on a company’s servers, but technical access does not establish a lawful basis for another use. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) addresses this distinction in its September 2026 report, Responsible…