The European Union’s new AI Act (the Act) went into efect on 1 August 2024. The Act is the first-ever comprehensive law focused on artifcial intelligence and machine learning (collectively, AI). The Act impacts many...more
Regulation almost always follows innovation, and the AI sector is no exception. The EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act is a world premiere. Published in the EU’s Official Journal on July 12 after many months of intense debate,...more
The European Union’s new AI Act (Act) will come into effect on August 1, 2024. The Act is the world’s first comprehensive artificial intelligence and machine learning (collectively, AI) focused law. It will have a sweeping...more
The EU AI Act was adopted by the Council of the European Union on May 21, 2024. It will be officially published in the EU Official Journal during the second half of July and likely to come into force by August this year,...more
The lead negotiators of the Council of the EU and the European Parliament have reached an agreement on a new EU regulation for the European Health Data Space (EHDS). Once adopted, the regulation will expand individuals’...more
The European Court of Justice (CJEU) recently issued a significant final decision affecting the online advertising industry, particularly concerning the Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) developed by the Interactive...more
A recent decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union will extend the EU General Data Protection Regulation’s automated decision-making restrictions to many present and future use cases of such technologies. While...more
The new EU AI Act contains provisions that reach beyond EU borders that could conflict with US copyright law, among others, when proprietary datasets are used for AI training. Therefore, US companies doing business in Europe...more
While the European Parliament and European Commission look to finalize the EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, many are interested to see how its relationship with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will play out,...more
After lengthy negotiations, representatives of the EU Council, European Parliament, and European Commission have reached a compromise in principle on rules for the use of artificial intelligence (AI), ushering in new...more
The Council of the European Union adopted the Data Act on November 27, 2023. The Data Act, together with the Data Governance Act and EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), as key elements of the broader European data...more
In two recent judgments, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) mandated information access rights by independent vehicle repairers to vehicle data under Regulation (EU) 2018/858. The judgments are likely to facilitate access to...more
Representatives from the European Parliament, the European Council, and the European Commission agreed on wording to Article 6 of the draft AI Act addressing important classification rules for high-risk artificial...more
The EU AI Act is currently still in the negotiation phase, or trilogue, in Brussels. If passed, it will have a significant impact on the M&A sector. The EU is encouraging European companies to become more active in the...more
The European Parliament voted on June 14, 2023 to adopt its position on the draft EU Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act) that would impose a comprehensive regulatory regime on AI. More rules are expected to follow for...more
The European Commission (Commission) is adopting an Adequacy decision for certain transfers of personal data to the United States. This adoption would foster trans-Atlantic data flows and address the concerns raised by the...more
The European Commission recently released a draft adequacy decision for the European Union and United States Transatlantic Data Privacy Framework (TDPF). If the decision is finalized, data transfers between the European Union...more
The European Court of Justice in a recent judgment nullified a key provision in the 2018 version of the EU Money Laundering Directive requiring that information regarding beneficial owners registered in the European national...more
US President Joseph Biden issued an Executive Order On Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities on October 7, which establishes safeguards relating to the handling of personal information in the...more
US President Joseph Biden signed the long-anticipated Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguard for United States Signals Intelligence Activities (EO) on October 7, 2022, providing enhanced protections in an effort to restore...more
The European Union adopted its 8th sanctions package of restrictive measures against Russia on 6 October 2022 in response to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. ...more
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The Swiss government has drafted a proposed list of countries that are approved to receive personal data transfers out of Switzerland. Japan and South Korea are excluded from the current and proposed lists, requiring...more
The German Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe (OLG Karlsruhe) recently repealed the July 13, 2022, decision of the Procurement Chamber of the German state of Baden-Württemberg that had argued that the mere risk of access to...more
The German Conference of DPAs (the DSK) has released new (legally non-binding) detailed Guidelines dated February 18, 2022 with respect to direct marketing in Germany. ...more
A new contract type has been introduced in the German Civil Code for the supply of digital content or services by companies to consumers in Germany: The German Federal Parliament has added 22 new sections (337-327u) on the...more