Podcast: Digital Taxation—Implications for EU Technology Companies
Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 39, Disclosure of Ransomware Attacks
As part of its 2025 Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act, Maryland is introducing a 3% sales and use tax on a broad range of information technology (IT) services, effective July 1, 2025. This “tech tax” is designed to...more
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
The Online Safety Act (the OSA) received Royal Assent on 26 October 2023 and is now in force. The OSA establishes an extensive regulatory framework for providers of online user-to-user services and search services with...more
The EU’s DSA, which regulates online intermediaries and platforms in digital space, came into effect in February 2024. The purpose of the DSA is to make the online environment safer, fairer, and more transparent by imposing...more
The European Union Digital Services Act (DSA) now applies to all digital “intermediary services” that provide users with access to online goods, services, and content. The DSA took effect on November 16, 2022, and regulates a...more
It has been some time already since the EU Digital Services Act (Regulation 2022/2065, DSA) was published, and since then, the discussions about Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Very Large Online Search Engines...more
On 25 August 2023, the EU’s Digital Services Act (“DSA”) came into effect for very large online platforms and very large online search engines. The DSA becomes fully applicable to other entities within its scope on 17...more
The Cybersecurity Administration of China ("CAC") and six other agencies jointly promulgated Interim Measures for the Administration of Generative Artificial Intelligence Services ("Generative AI Measures" or "Rules"), that...more
The Digital Markets Act aims to complement the enforcement of competition law to ensure that markets where “Gatekeepers” are present—including online search engines, online social networking, video sharing platform services,...more
On July 5, the European Parliament approved the final draft text of the EU Digital Services Act (DSA), a landmark law that will transform the EU’s legal framework for regulating online content. The Council is expected to...more
OFAC continues to aggressively enforce its sanctions programs. In its latest enforcement action, OFAC agreed with Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques SCRL (“SITA”), a Swiss telecom company, to an...more
As businesses continue to digitise their assets and operations, the need to continually assess IT infrastructure and the technical measures in place to safeguard key information assets and data becomes ever more important....more