France's Data Protection Authority (the “Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés” or “CNIL”) has issued comprehensive recommendations intended to assist businesses that are develop artificial intelligence...more
At the end of 2024 the Italian Data Protection Authority issued a 15 million euro fine in the first generative AI-related case brought under GDPR. According to Garante (the Italian authority), OpenAI trained ChatGPT with...more
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
Recent decisions by the French data protection authority (CNIL) have highlighted the importance of GDPR compliance, particularly in the areas of data retention, consent for processing sensitive personal data, and marketing...more
Dutch data privacy officials recently imposed a staggering penalty on Uber – €290 million ($324 million) – for allegedly breaching the European Union’s comprehensive data privacy and security law. This groundbreaking fine is...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
On 26 August the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) fined Uber EUR 290 million for a breach of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Following a number of complaints from French Uber drivers, the DPA found that...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
On 7 March 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued a ruling (C-604/22 | IAB Europe) clarifying the concepts of personal data and controller in the context of the use of a Transparency and Consent Framework...more
On January 29, 2024, the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) notified OpenAI of breaches of data protection laws involving its ChatGPT platform....more
The Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU)1 has held that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires controllers to provide data subjects a "faithful reproduction" of their personal data, which takes into account the...more
The Spanish Data Protection Authority has opened a public consultation process to obtain comments for an incoming decision establishing the rules for commercial communications via telephone. This decision will be binding upon...more
Der Europäische Gerichtshof (EuGH) wird bald darüber entscheiden, ob europäische Datenschutzbehörden künftig leichter Bußgelder nach Art. 83 DSGVO gegen Unternehmen verhängen können. Diese Entscheidung kann großen Einfluss...more
Organisations should expect increased scrutiny and enforcement activity around the role of data protection officers in the coming year. The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has announced that its coordinated...more
The Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) of the German state Hamburg is one of the first European DPA to publish an optimistic assessment on the U.S. Executive Order on “Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals...more
In a string of executive actions unveiled on October 7, 2022, the U.S. government took steps to implement the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF), the third attempt to secure trans-Atlantic data flows after the European...more
The Executive Order hopes to address what had been shortcomings in the previous Safe Harbor and Privacy Shield programs that were struck down by EU courts in 2015 and 2020 respectively. On October 7, 2022, President...more
The Swiss government has drafted a proposed list of countries that are approved to receive personal data transfers out of Switzerland. Japan and South Korea are excluded from the current and proposed lists, requiring...more
On 26 July 2022, the Lower Saxony data protection authority ("Lower Saxony DPA") announced that it has imposed a fine of 1.1 million euros on Volkswagen ("VW") due to GDPR violations. It found that VW has violated data...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
While the announcement is short on details, once in place, U.S.-based. entities will be able to use the new agreement to comply with the GDPR’s cross-border data transfer requirements. On March 25, the U.S. and E.U....more
Update: UK international data transfer agreement and UK addendum to the EU standard contractual clauses now in force In February, the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”), the United Kingdom (UK) data protection...more