In alignment with the ongoing concerns from several European data protection authorities publishing guidelines on data scrapping (i.e., the Dutch DPA, the Italian DPA and the UK Information Commissioner’s Office), the Global...more
This series of blogs rounds up some of the key data protection regulatory trends we have seen during 2024, focused on the EU and UK. 2024 has seen behavioural advertising and cookies continue to dominate the agenda of...more
On 19 September 2024, the Belgian Data Protection Authority (DPA) issued new Guidance on the interplay between the recently adopted EU Regulation on Artificial Intelligence (the AI Act) and the General Data Protection...more
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has welcomed X’s agreement to suspend its processing of certain personal data for the purpose of training its AI chatbot tool, Grok. This comes after the DPC issued suspension...more
On August 6th, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) issued guidance cautioning companies about the potential data protection risks associated with the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots....more
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) recently adopted a statement suggesting the Data Protection Authorities’ (DPAs) role with regard to the EU AI Act recently published in the Official Journal of the EU....more
Italy plays a prominent role in EU AI Act negotiations and engages in political discussions for future laws. Laws/Regulations directly regulating AI (the “AI Regulations”) Currently, there are no specific laws,...more
On January 29, 2024, the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) notified OpenAI of breaches of data protection laws involving its ChatGPT platform....more
Privacy regulators, including the EU data protection authorities (EU DPAs), are expected to increase their scrutiny of data scraping to train AI algorithms. Data scraping involves the collection of large amounts of publicly...more
EU data protection authorities (DPAs) will likely start enforcing the requirements of the EU AI Act, the world’s first comprehensive AI regulation, despite the Act likely not entering into full force until 2026....more
By now, many of us are using AI, advising others about how to use AI, and waiting for some legislative miracle to give us some guardrails for what we can or cannot be doing with AI. A lot of effort has been put into tracking...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
On May 16, 2022, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), the independent body of data protection supervisors that promotes consistent data protection rules and application thereof throughout the European Union (EU),...more
On 18 June 2021, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) issued a joint opinion on the European Union’s proposed AI Regulation, which was announced earlier this year....more
UNITED STATES - Regulatory—Policy, Best Practices, and Standards - Cybersecurity Standards Issued for Government Contractors - On January 31, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and...more
White & Case Technology Newsflash - The development of autonomous vehicles has attracted significant attention in recent years. The technologies being used in order to enable vehicles to navigate without human assistance...more