United States: Data Protection

Rob Keller, Associate General Counsel at Cisco, joins Sara Morgan to challenge conventional wisdom: data governance carries more legal weight than AI itself. Overseeing product legal for $24B in annual revenue, Rob reveals why GCs should prioritize overlapping EU regulations without stalling launches, what good AI vendor diligence looks like, and two near-term compliance deadlines GCs are underestimating—California AB 2013 and EU high-risk AI use case directives, both due this summer.

Integrating AI into hiring and other employment processes increasingly raises important legal and compliance risks — especially if those tools cross the line from supporting decisions to making them.

CMPs are sold as compliance solutions, but plaintiffs’ counsel and regulators increasingly treat them as evidence. When the CMP says one thing and the site does another, that isn’t just a configuration glitch..