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The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill

On 1 April 2025, the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology issued a policy statement setting out its key proposals for the new Cyber Security and Resilience Bill. The Bill is intended to respond to an...more

EU Commission seeks stakeholder contributions to shape guidelines on GPAI models

On April 22, 2025, the AI Office within the EU Commission launched a multi-stakeholder consultation to assist in the preparation of guidelines aiming at clarifying the scope of the rules for providers of GPAI models in the AI...more

The EU AI Act: Prohibited practices and AI literacy requirements take effect

On 2 February 2025, the first provisions of the EU’s groundbreaking AI Act started to apply. These provisions include a range of AI-related practices that are now prohibited and a duty on companies to introduce AI literacy...more

Unpacking the UK’s AI Opportunities Action Plan: A critical review

On the 13 January 2025, the UK Government endorsed a new and potentially transformative AI Opportunities Action Plan. The announcement makes clear an ambition to invest in, and promote, AI development by the private sector to...more

The start of your AI Act compliance journey

Businesses across the world are currently looking at ways of implementing artificial intelligence (AI) in their operations. In doing so, they face complex new regulatory compliance obligations, including those set out in the...more

UK King’s Speech 2024: Key takeaways on data protection and cyber security

On 17 July 2024, the King’s Speech and associated background briefing notes were presented and published. These contain a summary of the new government’s plans, including two proposed bills that relate to changes to the UK’s...more

The AI Act has finally arrived | Here is what you need to know

On Friday 12 July, the European Union published the final text of its long-anticipated AI Act in the Official Journal, marking a key milestone in the implementation of this transformative piece of digital regulation....more

UK CMA publishes AI Foundation Models update paper

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) has published an “Update Paper” outlining its evolving views on AI foundation models as well as its approach to supporting Government consideration on possible regulation. This...more

The EU AI Act: an impact analysis (part 1)

In December 2023, political agreement was reached by EU policy makers on all substantive aspects of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act. Since then, the close-to-final text of this transformational piece of European...more

The AI Act is coming: EU reaches political agreement on comprehensive regulation of artificial intelligence

On 8 December 2023, after marathon “trilogue” negotiations, the Council of the EU, the European Parliament and European Commission reached a groundbreaking agreement on the forthcoming AI Act. Although the final text is still...more

The UK AI Summit and the global race to regulate AI

This week’s UK AI Safety Summit is once again bringing the topic of AI regulation to the forefront of public debate. Amongst the hype and steady stream of news stories, something very important is happening. The AI Safety...more

UK CMA Publishes Initial Report on Regulation of AI

Further to the UK CMA’s ‘Initial Review’ of AI foundation models back in May, the regulator has now published an ‘Initial Report’ setting out its evolving thinking on the regulation of AI. While there are no immediate...more

Global AI Governance Principles

With the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, governments and policymakers are racing to release their own proposals on regulating the technology. Major jurisdictions including the EU, US, UK, and China are all at various...more

Roundtable discussion on Global Standards for AI Governance and the UK's AI regulatory framework

A cross-practice Global Regulatory & IPMT team hosted a roundtable discussion on the key requirements that industry would like to see incorporated in the UK Government’s approach to developing its AI regulatory framework....more

The UK’s bid to be at the centre of a global AI regulatory framework

A few months after the UK Government published a White Paper on its approach to artificial intelligence regulation and invited comments from stakeholders, the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced the UK will host a global...more

AI & Data Regulation: What privacy professionals need to know about the EU, UK, and U.S. approaches

AI technology is surging ahead of regulation and this gap has left companies in quandary. Privacy professionals are asked how can we plan for the lawful use of AI when the legal landscape for its adoption is unsettled....more

UK government announces its competing vision for AI regulation in Europe

On 29 March 2023, the UK government published its long-awaited white paper on its intended approach to regulating AI. The proposal seeks to strike a balance between the primary policy objective of creating a ‘pro-innovation’...more

UK data protection reform: A second bite of the cherry

On 8 March 2023, the UK Department for Science, Information and Technology (DSIT) published the Data Protection and Digital Information (No.2) Bill (DPDI 2) which provides an update to the Government's reforms to the UK data...more

NIST publishes Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework and resources

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has officially released the initial version of its Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF). The AI RMF is one of the first international...more

The role of AI in the new UK Consumer Duty

This article is the second in a series on areas impacted by AI. It focuses on the upcoming implementation of a new Consumer Duty, a higher standard of behaviour for financial services firms directly or indirectly interacting...more

UK FCA, PRA and BoE publish discussion paper (DP5/22) on AI and machine learning

In the discussion paper, the UK financial supervisory authorities have not provided a new legal framework or their intended future approaches for regulating the use of AI and machine learning in financial services. However,...more

The EU Cyber Resilience Act: what to expect

The European Commission recently proposed the EU Cyber Resilience Act, a regulation on cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements. The proposal introduces wide-ranging technical and governance measures that...more

UK data protection reform: How the UK GDPR may change - Amendments that the UK Data Protection and Digital Information Bill...

On 18 July 2022, the UK government introduced the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill to Parliament for its first reading. Following the UK leaving the European Union in 2020, the Bill sets out the proposed reforms...more

UK government announces its proposals for regulating AI

On 18 July 2022, the UK government published its cross-sector proposal for regulating artificial intelligence. The proposal outlines what is referred to as a ‘pro-innovation’ regulatory framework which is underpinned by a set...more

How the UK intends to reform data protection law

On 17 June 2022, the UK government published its refined plans for reforming UK data protection law, following a detailed consultation exercise undertaken last year. The proposals form part of wider changes to the UK...more

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