As AI gets better at inferring people’s health insights, sentiments, and cognitive states, in-house counsel face mounting legal, ethical, and governance challenges. Regulators are signaling stricter oversight of practices such as emotion detection, sentiment analysis and health inferences, while global frameworks — from Europe’s AI Act to UNESCO’s work on a global standard on the ethics of neurotechnology — are reshaping expectations for corporate accountability. For GCs, the mandate is clear: prepare governance structures and compliance playbooks that align innovation with evolving regulatory, ethical, and stakeholder demands.
Through interactive discussion, we will:
- Examine how neural data and sensitive inferences are being treated as emerging “sensitive data” categories under U.S. and international privacy frameworks.
- Explore global legal and ethical trends, including neurorights initiatives and AI governance standards.
- Share practical guidance for embedding privacy-by-design, conducting data protection impact assessments (DPIAs), and aligning internal stakeholders.
- Discuss strategies for de-identifying data as a means for compliance.
- Analyze real-world use cases — from wearables and advertising to wellness, education tech, and gaming.
Join Cooley partner Kristen Mathews and Joe Mornin, General Counsel at Science for a forward-looking discussion on how legal teams can develop ethics-first, compliance-ready strategies for navigating the next wave of AI and data regulation.
This program is eligible for up to 1 hour of CLE credit in 50-minute states and 1 hour of CLE credit in 60-minute states.
Credit hours are estimated and are subject to each state’s approval and credit rounding rules. This course is appropriate for experienced attorneys only. The L Suite has been certified by the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board and the State Bar of California as an Accredited Provider of continuing legal education. We have also recently received accreditation in Illinois and Texas. Additionally, we will seek CLE accreditation in WA, FL, PA, CO, GA, and any of the other 50 states by selecting your jurisdiction in the affidavit form received from the ABA. Canadian participants may use their certificates to submit for credit directly to the Law Society of British Columbia, the Law Society of Ontario, and the Maison du Barreau du Quebec.
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