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While many systems that are described as AI have been around for decades (e.g., internet search engines), today’s AI tools are much more powerful and are widely accessible. Generative AI and agentic AI extend the power of...more
On May 25th, the Belgian Supervisory Authority (“GBA”) announced that it had imposed a fine of EUR 50,000 on a Belgium-based news media company for using cookies on its websites without complying with applicable cookie law...more
Hong Kong proposes to widen the current definition of “personal data” to cover not just “identified” persons but also “identifiable” persons. The amendment is expected to cover the use of online tracking technologies such as...more
A cynical online commenter once wrote this about the data collection practices of the online news site Digg: “If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.” This is true of almost...more
What is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? The GDPR is an EU law that was passed by parliament and went into effect on May 25, 2018. The GDPR unifies the EU under a single data protection regime for all member...more
This quarterly update highlights some of the international data protection issues that have caught our attention, and the attention of our clients, in the past three months....more
On November 8, the Spanish data protection authority (AEPD) published new Guidelines on the Use of Cookies (Guidelines) (Spanish only). The Guidelines have been prepared in collaboration with different organisations in the...more
EU Court Allows Class Action to Proceed, Sets Precedent for Future Data Breach Class Actions - A class action brought against Google will be allowed to move forward after the plaintiff’s appeal was permitted, allowing him to...more
The French Data Protection Authority (“Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés” - CNIL), the independent French administrative regulatory body whose mission is to ensure that data privacy law is respected, has...more
On 19 July the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) published new guidelines on cookies and trackers. These replace the existing Recommendation No. 2013-378 of 5 December 2013, are intended to be in line with...more
The EU Parliament Committee in charge of reviewing the EU Commission's Proposal for an e-Privacy Regulation (Proposal) released a Draft Report proposing amendments this week....more
On December 28, 2016, the New York Department of Financial Services ("DFS") released a revised version of a proposed regulation that would require banks, insurance companies, and other financial services institutions...more
Last month, privacy and security professionals from around the world gathered in Washington, D.C. for the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ Global Privacy Summit 2016. The conference focused on the new...more