The U.K. Government has announced the creation of a new U.K-wide Health Data Research Service that will provide a secure single access point to national-scale data sets. The Wellcome Trust and the Government will invest up to...more
The event included speakers from assurance providers Yoti, and VerifyMy, digital platform providers such as Google, TikTok, the BBC and Epic Games, age-appropriate design platform K-ID, data protection regulators from the UK...more
On January 23, 2025, Mrs Justice Collins Rice of the UK High Court issued a ruling in the case of RTM v Bonne Terre Limited and Hestview Limited (trading as Sky Betting and Gaming, (SBG)).
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On January 13 2025, the UK Prime Minister announced the AI Opportunities Action Plan (Action Plan) and associated UK Government response.
Prepared by Matt Clifford CBE, the Action Plan is a series of 50 recommendations on...more
1/27/2025
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On December 12 2024 the ICO published an outcomes report on its 2024 generative AI consultation series (the Report).
The Report addresses five key areas regarding generative AI and its relation to data protection:
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On 6 November 2024, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published a report on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in recruitment (the Report) following a series of consensual audits with developers and providers...more
As further initiatives come in to play and legislation is on the horizon, existing regulators (such as the ICO, CMA, Ofcom and FCA) continue to press on with their approach to AI regulation, including through the Digital...more
11/22/2024
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As the EU presses ahead with its implementation of the AI Act, the UK continues to develop its evolutionary approach to AI policy and regulation. As the new Labour Government starts to implement its perspective and ahead of a...more
11/22/2024
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This is the final note in a three-part series on the regulation of artificial intelligence in the financial services sector in the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom. Our first note, we provided a...more
10/21/2024
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Many governments are grappling with the question of how to regulate artificial intelligence to ensure it is adopted safely and used responsibly without hampering innovation. Governments have generally indicated similar...more
10/8/2024
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The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopted a report on the challenges faced by Data Protection Officers (DPOs) (the Report) on 16 January 2024. This Report follows a coordinated investigation involving 25 EEA...more
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) published, on its own initiative, an Opinion on the EU’s draft Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act (Opinion 44/2023) on 23 October 2023. The EDPS provides specific suggestions for...more
The UK-US data bridge is the UK Government’s preferred terminology to describe its decision to permit the flow of personal data from the UK to the US, achieved through the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. The...more
On 10 July 2023, the European Commission adopted the adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF). This decision enables the free flow of personal data from the EU and three EEA countries (Iceland,...more
On 26 April 2023, in case T-557/20 (Single Resolution Board v EDPS), the Court of Justice of the European Union in its General Court configuration (the Court) annulled the decision of the European Data Protection Supervisor...more
The EDPB published its 2022 activity report “Streamlining Enforcement Through Cooperation” (the Activity Report) on 17 April 2023, which provides an overview of the work it carried out in 2022. The report reflects on, amongst...more
As generative AI products hit the headlines and organisations look to make the most of AI across all aspects of business, regulators continue to try and keep pace with the technology....more
On 12 October 2022, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) announced the outcomes of its plenary meeting held on 10 October 2022....more
On 28 September 2022, the European Commission published two proposals aimed at modernising product liability rules in the digital age. The proposal is the first specifically designed to address compensation for damage caused...more
On 18 July 2022, the UK Government published an interim paper “Establishing a pro-innovation approach to regulating AI”, outlining proposals for AI regulation in the UK (the AI Paper). In the UK’s National AI Strategy (see...more
On 13 June 2022, the UK’s Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) published its 2022 Digital Strategy (the Strategy)....more
On 3 May 2022, the European Commission launched the European Health Data Space (EHDS).
The EHDS aims to make it possible for individuals to have access to their personal electronic health data in easily readable,...more
On 3 May 2022, the European Commission (the Commission) launched the latest in a long line of data related initiatives intended to support a genuine single market for digital and data within the EU. ...more
The genie is out of the bottle on what can only be described as a revolution in the online operations of certain companies providing services in the UK. After a number of developments during February and March 2022, the UK...more
On 23 February 2022, Margrethe Vestager (European Commission’s Executive Vice President for a Europe fit for the Digital Age) unveiled proposals for the EU’s latest legislative development, the EU Data Act. Originally...more