Posts by Matt Kelly
AI and Policy Chatbots, Part II
Today I want to return to the idea of using an AI-driven chatbot as a compliance policy adviser for employees. On one hand, the potential gains for your compliance program are clear; but are we miscalculating some of the potential risks that AI chatbots might bring to your program too? This particular bee crept into…
Read MoreCalifornia Nails Tractor Supply on Privacy
Tractor Supply Co. has agreed to pay $1.35 million to settle charges with California regulators that the company violated the state’s tough data privacy law — the largest privacy fine in state history, and the state’s first enforcement action that extends to privacy rights for job applicants. Let’s take a look. The California Privacy Protection…
Read MoreParty Alert! Boston Compliance Meetup
Calling all compliance, audit, and risk professionals around Boston: we’ll be hosting another after-work cocktail party on Wednesday, Oct. 15. All are welcome to attend, meet colleagues, and talk shop. A merry band of compliance enthusiasts in Boston (me included) try to hold these networking events every few months. Boston doesn’t have nearly as much…
Read MoreWhen Bots Rip Apart Your Business
Corporate compliance officers are always thinking about how to make sure that your organization’s various stakeholder groups — employees, shareholders, customers, donors, business partners — all understand your corporate culture, values, and ethical priorities. Now we have a new stakeholder group threatening that goal: stakeholders that don’t actually exist. So says a fascinating article from…
Read MoreCompliance Jobs Report: Sept. 26
What better way to celebrate World Compliance Officer Day than with the Compliance Jobs Report? This week we have new hires at TD Bank, U.S. Bank, Lockheed Martin, Equifax, Heinecken, and many more. Promotions at AbbVie, Google, Capital One, and elsewhere; and job leads are in insurance, convenience stores, and documents! We also take any…
Read MoreAre Boards Getting Cyber Wrong?
A new report finds that most large corporations in the United States assign oversight of cybersecurity risk to the board’s audit committee, which isn’t the craziest governance decision a board can make but does raise questions about whether boards are addressing cybersecurity as wisely as possible. The report comes from MyLogIQ, a software firm that…
Read MoreStudy Flags Audit Teams, Geopolitical Risk
Here’s a tricky one for corporate risk managers and internal audit teams everywhere: worries about geopolitical risk are surging among organizations around the world, but audit teams still rate geopolitical risk as a low priority — creating an “alignment gap” between risk and risk management in some places is alarmingly large. So says a report…
Read MoreAI Chatbots and Policy Management
Compliance officers talk all the time about how artificial intelligence has the potential to transform the programs you run. Today I want to unpack an example of how that might work, courtesy of a case-study I saw last week involving AI and policy management. The company in question is a global IT services firm (23,000…
Read MoreWhat the H1-B Visa Mess Says About Trump 2.0
Immigration visas might be an obscure topic for corporate compliance officers, but we should spend some time today examining the changes President Trump just announced for holders of H1-B visas. It’s emblematic of so much that we encounter in this messy Trump 2.0 Administration. Here’s what happened. On Friday evening, Trump announced a new $100,000…
Read MoreCompliance Jobs Report: Sept. 19
The Compliance Jobs Report this week has new hires at Albemarle, Becton Dickinson, TMS International, and more; and also departures from Allianz Life, HP, and Commonwealth Financial. Promotions to note at Stripe, Lending Club, AbbVie, and elsewhere; plus job leads in insurance, consumer products, and online auctions. Meme of the Week goes out to AI!…
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