Category: Governance

AI governance frameworks, oversight models, accountability structures, and organisational control over AI use

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Transatlantic AI Governance: Two Philosophies, One Control Map

In one week the US chose voluntary, standards-referenced AI oversight while the EU adopted CADA's graded sovereignty test. A deployer operating across both cannot run on a single mental model. Here is one control map, with two triggers per control, that answers the European and American regimes at once.
An engineer alone bears the full weight of building AI in-house, with supplier crates left unused behind.

So You Decided to Build. Now You Have to Govern It.

The moment you move from buyer to builder, provider obligations, auditability, logging and exit discipline become yours. Here is how a mid-market organisation keeps a proprietary or co-developed AI tool governable, without a large-firm budget, and where the Cyber Resilience Act starts to bite.
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The AI Confidentiality Risk Hiding in Your Everyday Tools

Two US rulings show that material run through public AI tools can lose privilege and confidentiality. For EU practitioners, contract terms, deployment environment and acceptable-use rules are the controls that decide whether sensitive work stays protected before the next dispute.
Single sheet ruled into six fields with a magnifying glass and an open leather volume beside it, illustrating the Annex III classification memo against the Commission's draft guidelines

Annex III Classification: 6 Critical Fields

The Commission's draft guidelines of 19 May 2026 set worked examples across all eight Annex III categories. The Annex III classification memo now has an external benchmark. Six fields make the call defensible before the 23 June consultation closes.
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Right to Explanation: 3 Critical Gaps

The Dutch DPA's consultation on the right to explanation closes on 26 May 2026. The draft reframes Article 22 GDPR and Article 86 AI Act obligations as a deliverable on demand, not paperwork. Three deployer gaps to close before the final guidance arrives in Q3 2026.
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The Europrivacy Transfer Tool: What Changes in AI Procurement

The EDPB has confirmed Europrivacy as both a Data Protection Seal under Article 42(5) and as an Article 46 transfer tool when combined with binding and enforceable commitments. Five concrete updates to make to your procurement file this quarter, with a decision sheet as the operational companion.
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