As businesses rapidly integrate AI into everyday operations, legal risk assessments are often struggling to keep pace. This creates growing challenges at the intersection of employment law, privacy, data protection, and emerging AI regulations.

In this webinar, Priya Keshav, Founder & CEO of Meru Data, along with Deepa Menon and Hannah Wilkins, Partners at Eversheds Sutherland, shared practical insights on navigating the evolving legal, privacy, and employment-related challenges associated with workplace AI.

The session explored the key risks businesses should consider before introducing AI tools into the workplace and highlighted how businesses can better understand and manage risks throughout the AI lifecycle, from adoption to the ongoing use.

Topics covered:

• Legal and regulatory considerations for workplace AI across jurisdictions
• Risks associated with AI tools such as chatbots, virtual assistants, and transcription platforms
• Employee monitoring, BYOD risks, and biometric data implications
• Managing contracts, privilege, confidentiality, and trade secret risks
• Workforce impacts and governance considerations in AI adoption

Children’s privacy is rapidly evolving beyond traditional COPPA compliance. New state laws, expanding FTC enforcement, age assurance requirements, and app store accountability measures are reshaping how businesses manage data related to minors and teens.

In this episode of Simplifying for Success, Priya Keshav, Founder and CEO of Meru Data, is joined by Nerissa Coyle McGinn, Partner at Loeb & Loeb LLP, to discuss the changing regulatory landscape and what businesses need to do to prepare. The conversation covers key enforcement trends, emerging age verification requirements, app store accountability laws, and the growing expectation for organizations to address children’s privacy through governance and operational practices.

Topics Covered

• Expanding FTC enforcement and its impact on children’s data
• State age assurance and age-appropriate design laws
• App store accountability requirements
• Key lessons from recent enforcement actions
• Age verification, parental controls, and compliance challenges
• Practical steps businesses can take to prepare for evolving requirements

California’s updated CCPA regulations raised the bar for privacy and security governance, introducing phased cybersecurity audit obligations for qualifying businesses beginning in 2026.

In this episode, Priya Keshav, Founder & CEO of Meru Data LLC, and Austin Manes, Privacy Counsel at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP, provide a practical understanding of what these requirements mean, how to determine whether your organization may be affected, and how to prepare for compliance.

Topics include:

• An overview of the new CCPA cybersecurity audit requirements

• What must be audited, who is responsible, and upcoming compliance deadlines

• Practical strategies to meet key compliance obligations

This webinar is approved by the IAPP - International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) for Continuing Privacy Education (CPE) Credits.