Exactly one year from now, on September 12, 2025, the EU Data Act will enter into application. This new regulation provides harmonized rules on data access, switching cloud providers, and interoperability requirements across...more
9/13/2024
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Compliance Dates ,
Data Processors ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Data Subject Access Requests ,
Enforcement ,
EU ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
International Harmonization
In this blog post, we will focus on obligations that the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) sets for deployers, providers, importers and distributors regarding high-risk AI systems....more
8/27/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Compliance ,
Cooperation ,
Digital Service Providers ,
Distributors ,
EU ,
Importers ,
Machine Learning ,
New Legislation ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Risk Assessment ,
Risk Management ,
Risk-Based Approaches ,
Supply Chain ,
Third-Party Service Provider ,
Transparency
In this blog post, we will focus on the identification of “high-risk AI systems” under the Artificial Intelligence Act (“AI Act”) and the requirements applying to such systems. As explained in our previous blog posts, the AI...more
The EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on July 12, 2024, as “Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 laying down...more
This blog post focuses on the transparency requirements associated with certain limited-risk artificial intelligence (AI) systems under Article 50 of the European Union’s AI Act....more
This blog post focuses on Artificial Intelligence (AI) practices prohibited under the EU AI Act. Article 5 of the AI Act essentially prohibits AI practices that materially distort peoples’ behavior or that raise serious...more
On March 13, 2024, the European Parliament adopted the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act). It is considered to be the world’s first comprehensive horizontal legal framework for AI. It provides for EU-wide rules on data...more
3/15/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
European Parliament ,
Extraterritoriality Rules ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Machine Learning ,
Member State ,
New Legislation ,
OECD ,
Risk Assessment ,
Technology Sector
On February 8, 2024, the European Commission (Commission) adopted its revised Market Definition Notice (Notice), replacing a version that was nearly 30 years old. The Notice is not binding, but it provides guidance on how the...more
On 22 December 2023, the EU published Regulation (EU) 2023/2854, the Data Act, in the Official Journal of the EU. The Data Act is a new regulation providing harmonised rules on access to data, switching cloud providers and...more
1/25/2024
/ B2B Organizations ,
Cloud Computing ,
Connected Items ,
Data Controller ,
Data Protection ,
Data Subject Access Requests ,
Digital Single Market ,
EU ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
International Harmonization ,
New Regulations ,
Personal Data ,
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) ,
Technology Sector ,
Third-Party
On November 27, 2023, the Council of the European Union adopted the EU Data Act, a new regulation providing harmonized rules on access to data, switching cloud providers, and interoperability requirements across the EU. The...more
On December 8, representatives from the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the Council of the European Union (EU) reached political agreement on the shape and contents of the EU’s AI Act (the “Act”), setting...more
On November 27, 2023, the Council of the European Union adopted the EU Data Act, a new regulation providing harmonized rules on access to data, switching cloud providers and interoperability requirements across the EU. The...more
On November 27, 2023, the Council of the European Union adopted the EU Data Act (Data Act), a new regulation providing harmonized rules on access to data, switching cloud providers and interoperability requirements across the...more
On November 9, 2023, the European Parliament adopted the EU Data Act, a new regulation providing harmonized rules on access to data, switching cloud providers and interoperability requirements across the EU. It is widely...more
11/16/2023
/ Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) ,
Connected Entities ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Data-Sharing ,
Digital Single Market ,
EU ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
European Commission ,
European Parliament ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Member State ,
New Legislation ,
Personal Data ,
Transparency
On July 10, 2023, the European Commission adopted an adequacy decision for the new EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“EU-U.S. DPF”), the successor to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, which the Court of Justice of the European Union...more
7/19/2023
/ Certification Requirements ,
Compliance ,
Compliance Monitoring ,
Department of Transportation (DOT) ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Framework Agreement ,
International Data Transfers ,
Privacy Framework ,
UK
On July 10, 2023, the European Commission adopted its long-awaited adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“Adequacy Decision”). This ends a three-year journey to set up a successor to the EU-U.S. Privacy...more
7/12/2023
/ Adequacy Requirement ,
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
European Commission ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Iceland ,
International Data Transfers ,
Liechtenstein ,
Member State ,
Norway ,
Personal Data ,
U.S. Commerce Department
On June 14, 2023, the European Parliament adopted its negotiating position regarding the proposal of the European Commission for a regulation laying down harmonized rules on artificial intelligence. This is the most recent...more
6/16/2023
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Contract Negotiations ,
Distributors ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
European Parliament ,
Importers ,
International Harmonization ,
Machine Learning ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Risk Assessment ,
Risk-Based Approaches
The European Court of Justice (the “Court”) issued the long-awaited “Schrems II” decision. (see Facebook Ireland Ltd. v. Maximillian Schrems).
In its decision, the Court (1) struck down the Privacy Shield program that...more
Throughout the world, the coronavirus pandemic is creating enormous challenges. While data protection is not the main concern, the European Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) made it clear that the European General Data...more
Throughout the world, the coronavirus pandemic is creating enormous challenges. While data protection is not the main concern, the European Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) made it clear that the European General Data...more
On February 19, 2020, the European Commission (“EC”) published a series of documents outlining its vision for Europe’s digital future. Amongst these, the EC’s White Paper on Artificial Intelligence: A European approach to...more
The European Data protection Board (“EDPB”), which is composed of representatives of the national data protection authorities and the European Data Protection Supervisor, unveiled a two-year work program on February 12, 2019....more
On January 23, 2019, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”), which is composed of representatives of the national data protection authorities and the European Data Protection Supervisor, adopted an Advisory Opinion...more
2/20/2019
/ Clinical Trials ,
Consent ,
Data Collection ,
Data Protection ,
EU ,
European Data Protection Board (EDPB) ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Personal Data ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Public Interest ,
Scientific Research
The European Data protection Board (“EDPB”), which is composed of representatives of the national data protection authorities and the European Data Protection Supervisor, recently adopted an Advisory Opinion (“Opinion”) on...more
2/12/2019
/ Advisory Opinions ,
Clinical Trials ,
Consent ,
Data Protection ,
Data Protection Authority ,
EU ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Life Sciences ,
Personal Data ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Public Interest
The European Data protection Board (“EDPB”), which is composed of representatives of the national data protection authorities, and the European Data Protection Supervisor, adopted its report on the second annual review of the...more
2/4/2019
/ Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Data Protection Authority ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Information Reports ,
International Data Transfers ,
National Security ,
Personal Data ,
Surveillance ,
Transparency ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework