data privacy

The City of Cold Lake’s council unanimously approved a new Artificial Intelligence policy on Jan. 27 that deliberately steers between outright prohibition and laissez‑faire adoption: it gives municipal staff a principles‑based decision framework to use embedded AI features while erecting...

The City of Cold Lake has moved from deliberation to action: on Jan. 27 council unanimously approved a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) policy that aims to let municipal staff use AI where it delivers efficiency, while erecting clear guardrails to protect personal and organizational information...

Connecticut stands at a familiar crossroads: energized lawmakers pressing for guardrails around artificial intelligence, a governor’s office urging caution to avoid driving away businesses, and a business community warning that heavy-handed rules could stifle investment. As the 2026 legislative...

Two major signals landed in the same week — the International AI Safety Report 2026 and Microsoft’s refreshed Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) for AI — and together they show a clear, practical risk: as AI is woven deeper into customer journeys, customer trust is becoming the first casualty of...

Microsoft’s Copilot is becoming a practical, low‑friction entry point for charities that want the productivity gains of generative AI while keeping data inside familiar Microsoft 365 boundaries — but doing it well means pairing the tool with governance, measurement and new staff skills...

Google’s Gemini is quietly testing a way to pull another assistant’s entire conversation history into its own workspace — a small UI change with potentially huge implications for portability, privacy, and how people choose (or switch) AI chatbots. Background / Overview Google has been spotted...

Google’s latest Gemini builds are quietly testing a set of features that could change the dynamics of the AI assistant market: a native “Import AI Chats” flow to bring entire conversation histories from rivals into Gemini, higher-resolution image download presets (2K and 4K), and a new...

A modest January meeting in Penn Yan produced a consequential decision for Yates County’s technology and governance future: the legislature formally adopted a countywide Artificial Intelligence Use Policy, approved staffing and contract measures, and moved forward several programs funded by...

Two years of a professor’s academic scaffolding — grant drafts, lecture materials, exam banks and publication revisions — vanished in an instant when a single change to ChatGPT’s data controls emptied his workspace, and there was no undo, no support recovery, and no comeback from the company...

College administrators are leaning into AI chatbots as quiet partners—using them to parse regulations, draft communications, summarize enrollment trends and even stress‑test strategy—but the rapid expansion of that “shadow” use is colliding with legacy privacy rules, brittle governance and a...

Retailers are rushing to put their merchandise into the hands of AI agents — and in doing so they’re trading direct consumer relationships, deep behavioral data, and parts of the customer experience for convenience, reach and the promise of a new discovery channel. Background: the quick pivot to...

The Northwest Territories government says it has no plans to create a standalone AI policy for the public service, relying instead on a high‑level generative AI guideline released in May 2025 and existing information‑management rules — a stance that has prompted praise for caution from some...

Central Bucks School District’s plan to embed AI literacy into classroom instruction lands at a moment of sharp contrast: districts across the country are moving quickly to teach students how to use and evaluate artificial intelligence, even as security researchers expose new ways those same AI...