privacy compliance

Microsoft’s latest Teams admin center update is less about flashy end-user features and more about control, visibility, and governance. The company is rolling out a new voice and face enrollment dashboard for administrators, giving IT teams a clearer view of who has enrolled biometric profiles...

Seattle’s new mayor has put a major technology decision on hold: Mayor Katie Wilson’s administration has paused a planned citywide rollout of Microsoft Copilot for city employees to allow for a more deliberate review of privacy, public‑records, and labor implications before turning the tool...

OpenAI’s recent maneuvering in the public square has accelerated a market re‑sorting: users and organizations worried about privacy, vendor ties, or cost are actively trying alternatives to ChatGPT, and a lively crop of contenders now offer legitimately different trade‑offs — from ultra‑long...

Microsoft’s Copilot just added a quietly default‑on switch that lets the assistant harvest cross‑product usage signals — including searches and browsing activity from Edge, Bing, and MSN — to populate its Memory and personalize replies, and you should check and consider turning this off now if...

Microsoft has confirmed that a configuration error in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat allowed the assistant to read and summarise emails stored in users’ Drafts and Sent Items — including messages labelled confidential — for several weeks, exposing a blind spot in enterprise controls and reigniting...

Microsoft Teams will begin prompting users to create voice profiles directly inside meetings, removing the manual steps that previously kept many employees from enrolling and enabling several voice-driven AI features across Teams. Background Microsoft announced the new express voice enrollment...

Jena Zangs’s short, practical recommendation — summarize before you upload — is the clearest, most actionable piece of AI safety advice a campus administrator can hear right now. As universities rush to fold generative AI into advising, administration, research and classroom workflows, the...

Microsoft’s Copilot is quietly broadening the sources it uses to personalize your experience — and unless you turn a buried setting off, it may be drawing on your activity across other Microsoft services such as Bing, MSN, and Edge to feed its “memory” feature. Background Copilot’s memory and...

Microsoft’s flagship productivity AI for Microsoft 365 has a glaring privacy problem: for weeks a code error allowed Copilot Chat to read and summarize emails that organizations had explicitly labelled as confidential, bypassing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) controls and undermining a core tenant...

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...