On April 14 2025, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) announced the outcomes of its plenary session that took place on April 8 2025, during which the EDPB adopted draft Guidelines on processing of personal data through...more
4/25/2025
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On February 3 2025, the European Commission published an updated version of the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 on harmonised rules on fair access to and use of data (Data Act). Key...more
2/27/2025
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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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On November 14, 2024, the European Commission published the first draft of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (the Draft Code).
The Draft Code is designed to help providers of general-purpose AI models (GPAI) and...more
12/2/2024
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The Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) entered into force on 1 August 2024 and is the world's first comprehensive legal framework for AI regulation. As companies start incorporating AI tools into their business, products...more
We are delighted to present our view of the most important developments in EU digital market regulation. We present our perspective on those developments as a snapshot of the current state of regulatory progress, and it will...more
11/8/2023
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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
In the five years since the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation came into force, what have been the main learnings for business, and what will the future hold?...more
The first week of May 2023 saw further EU case law emerge on the right to compensation under the GDPR, and in this blog we analyse the implications of these latest rulings and consider what may be coming next....more
Within the past year, a number of countries around the world, including the United States, United Kingdom, France, and The Netherlands have initiated regulatory inquiries and developed new strategies for the purpose of more...more
4/25/2023
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The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) issued its opinion on the draft adequacy decision of the European Commission (Draft Decision) regarding the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF) on 28 February 2023. The DPF is a...more
Read the latest updates on the progress of legislation and regulation in the EU relating to technology, data, digital markets and cybersecurity....more
The entire privacy community waited anxiously for the outcome of the EUR 11 billion class action claim, launched in the summer of 2020 by The Privacy Collective (TPC) against several Oracle and Salesforce entities at the...more
Employers are working in a new and disrupted world, with different volumes and types of data, processed for different purposes, including those driven by societal development, expectations and changing ways of working. These...more
In 2020 companies around the world were hit by a wave of cybersecurity incidents. Our Amsterdam Technology & Data team spoke with over 30 organisations that represent a cross-section of the Dutch corporate community about...more