privacy compliance

Corrections in New Zealand has labelled staff use of generative AI to draft formal casework “unacceptable,” after an internal review found a small number of probation and community‑corrections staff had used Microsoft Copilot Chat to assist with reports that contain personal and health...

Barry University’s drive to become an “AI‑integrated university” is emblematic of a broader shift on U.S. campuses: administrators are moving beyond pilot programs to embed generative AI across marketing, enrollment, planning, and analytics — but they’re doing so while wrestling with serious...

Corrections has quietly moved from piloting generative tools to policing them: after a small number of staff were found to have used Microsoft Copilot Chat to help draft formal casework — including Extended Supervision Order reports — the department has labelled that behaviour “unacceptable,”...

Corrections in New Zealand has moved quickly to reprimand staff after an internal breach of its AI rules, saying use of generative tools to draft formal, personal-information‑bearing reports is “unacceptable” — a development that spotlights how public-sector organisations are wrestling with the...

The Interactive Advertising Bureau’s launch of Project Eidos marks the industry’s most explicit, cross‑sector effort to reforge how advertising is measured in an era governed by AI, privacy constraints, and fragmented attention — and it arrives alongside competing projects from the ANA and major...

Microsoft’s Teams roadmap keeps delivering steady, practical improvements that will quietly reduce friction for millions of users — from a fix for the dreaded “howling” echo when multiple laptops share a room to privacy-first recording consent, cleaner admin navigation, better captions, and even...

A single row on X and an in-depth profile in The Irish Times together underline two linked realities for technology and legal professionals in 2026: the instantaneous reputational damage social media can inflict, and the long game of corporate investment, local economies, and the governance...

The long-running feud between John Donovan and Royal Dutch Shell has entered a new, surreal phase: a public “bot war” in which generative AIs — prompted from a partisan archive and then set against one another — openly contradict, correct, and amplify contested claims about events that began in...

Apple’s holiday-season playbook suddenly reads like a product roadmap: a single Christmas‑Eve social post from the company’s CEO — framed by widespread rollout of on‑device generative features and third‑party integrations announced at WWDC — pulled into focus how AI‑powered personalization can...

Portable North Pole this week rolled out a major upgrade to its seasonal app: a live, AI‑driven “Talk to Santa” experience that the company says uses Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services Speech to deliver real‑time, two‑way voice conversations between children and a Santa persona. Background /...

Bosses across industries are quietly turning to a familiar management lever—cash—to get wary employees to use generative AI, rolling out bonus pools, spot cash awards, and small prize schemes tied to measurable actions like Copilot prompts as a short‑term tactic to overcome resistance, measure...

Microsoft’s AI chief calling public scepticism “mind‑blowing” has crystallized a wider, uncomfortable debate: the technology at the heart of Microsoft’s next‑generation OS is undeniably powerful, but many enterprise buyers are not yet convinced that it is ready to be trusted with...

Compliant’s new Agentic AI Suite for Media lands as a sharply timed attempt to solve what many marketers now call the “automation paradox”: AI agents can drive dramatic efficiency in programmatic advertising, but without trustworthy signals about publisher data practices those same agents risk...

Microsoft's long-running experiment with desktop AI has moved decisively from sidebar novelty to a system-level assistant: Windows Copilot places an AI-powered helper directly on the taskbar, can read and act on screen content with user permission, integrates Bing Chat-style retrieval, and —...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT is no longer just a one‑on‑one assistant — it’s now a shared workspace: group chats let up to 20 people collaborate with ChatGPT in real time, and the feature is rolling out beyond pilot regions into wider markets, including availability for users in Singapore as the global...

Microsoft is rolling out a Teams feature that will automatically mark whether a user is “in the office” by detecting connections to corporate Wi‑Fi or desk peripherals — a change that promises to make in‑office collaboration easier for managers and teammates but raises immediate privacy...

Microsoft’s Copilot for Windows has taken a significant step toward deeper integration with personal productivity workflows: a new Insider build introduces Copilot Connectors that let the app reach into third‑party accounts, and a document creation and export capability that can generate Word...

Microsoft will begin automatically pushing the Microsoft 365 Copilot desktop app to Windows devices that already have Microsoft 365 desktop clients installed, in a background rollout scheduled to start in October 2025 and described by Microsoft as beginning in “Fall 2025.” Background Microsoft...

Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot desktop app on Windows machines that already have Microsoft 365 desktop clients installed, a background rollout slated to start in early October and run into mid‑November 2025 — and while enterprise tenants can opt out, most...

Microsoft will begin installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app automatically on Windows devices that already have the Microsoft 365 desktop apps, a background rollout that starts this fall and is expected to reach completion by mid‑November — but it won’t happen for devices in the European...