Legal vigilance
at AI scale.

We monitor what the law cares about — continuously and under privilege. You keep moving.

The law didn’t change.
Your exposure did.

AI decides who’s hired, approved, flagged. It also writes, calls, sells — faster than anyone can review. Most laws don’t ask who did it. They ask what happened.

Title VII · ADEA · ADA

Who gets hired

Your AI can’t disfavor candidates on protected class: race, sex, age, disability. Outcomes are scrutinized, intent or not.

ECOA · Reg B

Who gets credit

Your AI’s lending calls carry liability for protected-class outcomes, plus a duty to explain denials.

Fair Housing Act

Who sees housing

Your AI steering ads or scoring tenants can’t disfavor protected classes; disparate impact alone is liability.

ACA §1557

Clinical decisions

Your AI in patient care can’t yield discriminatory outcomes; HHS now reaches decision-support tools directly.

CO SB21-169 · NAIC

Unfair pricing

Your AI rating risk can’t produce unfair discrimination, and states now make you test and govern the models.

FCRA · Reg V

Adverse actions

When your AI scores someone, they can might demand the reasons and dispute the result; private suits attach.

GINA

Genetic and health

Your AI can’t use or infer genetic or family-health data in an employment call; flat ban.

Title VI

Federal funds

Take federal money and your AI can’t discriminate by race or national origin; one hook into health, schools, benefits.

State AI laws

Audit and notice

These duties land state by state, and no two regimes agree: CA, NYC LL144, IL, TX, and counting.

FTC §5 (deception) · State UDAP

Deceptive claims

Every false thing your AI tells a customer; FTC, 50 state AGs, and under state law the customer.

FTC §5 (unfair) · State UDAP

Manipulation

How your AI pressures, steers, or exploits a customer; actionable even when nothing it said was false.

UDAAP · Dodd-Frank

Financial conduct

Your AI inside a financial product can be unfair, deceptive, or abusive; CFPB and state regulators bring these.

Defamation

Hallucinated claims

When your AI asserts a falsehood about a real person, tort liability attaches; no statute, no cap.

Right of publicity

Likeness and voice

If your AI conjures someone’s face, name, or voice to sell, that's their property and their lawsuit.

FTC Reviews Rule

Fake reviews

Reviews or testimonials your AI fabricates are deceptive per se, and the FTC penalizes them.

TCPA

Robocalls and texts

Your AI dialed it: $500–$1,500 a message, and consumers can sue.

FDCPA · Reg F

Debt collection

How your AI contacts people about debts (harassment, falsehoods, timing) all still bind; private right of action.

CAN-SPAM

Email at scale

Your AI’s marketing mail must honor unsubscribes and identify the sender; liability accrues per message.

COPPA

Kids’ data

If your AI profiles or targets children, consent rules are strict and FTC penalties steep.

BIPA · TX · WA

Biometric data

If your AI reads a face or voiceprint, each person gets a private suit and statutory damages.

HIPAA · HITECH

Health data

PHI moving through your AI’s training or inference triggers privacy, security, and breach duties; OCR enforces.

NLRA

Worker surveillance

When your AI monitors workers, the NLRB can treat it as interfering with protected organizing.

ADA Title III

Accessibility

Your AI’s chat, scoring, and scheduling must work for people with disabilities; DOJ-readable, private suits.

We watch. Counsel advises. You ship.

We measure real outcomes with custom legal classifiers — a live read on what your AI does. Not a yearly audit. Not policy document. Where you stand, and the moment it changes.

Raw outcomes
Structured findings
About the Platform

Knowing shouldn’t be a liability. We turn it into an asset.

Your diligence can create evidence for the other side. But skip it, and not knowing becomes the exposure.

Privilege is the answer. Working through counsel, we examine your systems without building the other side’s case — turning diligence into a record that works for you, not against you.

Answers, not homework.

We don’t sell questionnaires. We put our questions to your systems and measure the answers.

Our team takes you from your risk map to live oversight in weeks.

01

Map

We map your systems and data onto your legal obligations. Counsel ranks the risk.

02

Quantify

We bind that data to custom legal classifiers. Counsel sets the thresholds.

03

Monitor

We monitor continuously, surfacing findings to counsel. Counsel tells you what it means.

Let’s talk

Ship faster. Cover more. Change freely.

Under privilege, the more you know, the stronger your position gets — which is exactly how it’s supposed to work.

Faster Value

Counsel sees a live record and actionable advice, not a quarterly memo. Pilots stuck in legal review finally ship.

Broader Coverage

Monitoring reaches the exposure — customer-facing, adverse-outcomes. The use cases you’d have shelved come back on the table.

Same Flexibility

We care about outcomes, not how you got there. The model underneath is yours to change — what matters stays checked.

Principals you can trust.

We’ve built enterprise systems for regulated enterprises, represented Fortune 500 companies, advised the White House and federal regulators, and led delivery in defense and intelligence environments.

Joe Ewing

Joe Ewing

Co-Founder, & Chief Technology Officer

Twenty years building, modernizing, and scaling complex platforms across commercial, regulated, and defense environments. From generative AI to FedRAMP / IL4 / IL5 cloud delivery.

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Joe Ewing is the (acting) Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer, and Co-Founder of Privlex, where he leads the firm's technical vision and delivery. He previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Clarion AI Partners.

His experience spans large-scale enterprise implementations, AI-enabled and data-integrated systems, and modernization for mission-critical workflows. From generative AI to advanced analytics, automation, cloud platforms, and enterprise application modernization.

Earlier in his career, Joe led platform and cloud modernization for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies, delivering secure systems under NIST, FedRAMP, and IL4/IL5.

Aaron Rieke

Aaron Rieke

Co-Founder & Chief Legal Engineer

Lawyer-technologist working at the intersection of law, engineering, and public policy. Has advised the White House, Congress, federal regulators, and leading technology companies.

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Aaron Rieke is the Co-Founder and Chief Legal Engineer of Privlex, where he helps organizations navigate the legal, regulatory, and technical realities of deploying AI in high-stakes environments. He previously served as a Senior Partner at Clarion AI Partners.

Aaron has advised the White House, Congress, federal regulators, and leading technology companies on AI governance, risk, and compliance. Most recently, he served as Chief of Staff and Attorney-Advisor to a Commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission.

Prior to the FTC, Aaron was Managing Director at Upturn, a technology policy nonprofit. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, and The Economist.

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