On February 11 2025, the European Commission (the EU Commission) released its 2025 work programme in which it published its AI and privacy initiatives for 2025 (the Work Programme) in order to boost competitiveness, enhance...more
2/27/2025
/ AI Act ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Privacy Laws ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Technology Sector
On January 21 2025, the Council of the European Union (Council) announced its decision to adopt the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Health Data Space (EHDS).
As we have previously...more
1/29/2025
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Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
EU ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Member State ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
Personal Data ,
Privacy Laws ,
Regulatory Agenda
On November 14 2024, the Constitutional Court of Chile approved Bill No. 11144-07, regulating the protection and processing of personal data and creating the Personal Data Protection Agency, and Bill No. 11092-07, regulating...more
On 1 July 2024, the European Commission (the ‘Commission’) announced its preliminary findings in an investigation of a leading social media platform, concluding that its ‘pay or consent’ advertising model implemented in the...more
7/23/2024
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Consent ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Digital Markets Strategy ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
European Economic Area (EEA) ,
Pay or Play ,
Privacy Laws ,
Social Media ,
Technology Sector
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) during its 90th plenary session, on 14 February 2024, amongst other things:
- adopted an opinion (the Opinion) on the notion of a controller’s main establishment, including...more
On 17 October 2023, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) adopted a joint opinion on the proposed Regulation on the digital euro (the Proposal) as a central bank digital...more
After the controversial Google Spain decision (which besides the right to be forgotten also dealt with applicable law rules), the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) handed down another important – and yet again rather...more
10/16/2015
/ Cybersecurity ,
Data Protection ,
Data Protection Authority ,
Debt Collection ,
Edward Snowden ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
European Commission ,
European Court of Justice (ECJ) ,
Facebook ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Google ,
Hungary ,
International Data Transfers ,
Internet ,
Internet Privacy ,
Ireland ,
Member State ,
Multinationals ,
National Security ,
National Security Agency (NSA) ,
Online Advertisements ,
Personal Data ,
Privacy Laws ,
Real Estate Market ,
Right to Be Forgotten ,
Right to Privacy ,
Safe Harbors ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework ,
Websites
To become law, the proposed text will need to be adopted jointly by the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers (i.e. ‘ordinary legislative procedure’). In March 2014, the European Parliament voted in plenary and...more