On May 8 2025, the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) confirmed that the Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) is directly applicable to AI-supported data processing.
The FDPIC clarified...more
5/23/2025
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On February 11 2025, the European Commission (the EU Commission) released its 2025 work programme in which it published its AI and privacy initiatives for 2025 (the Work Programme) in order to boost competitiveness, enhance...more
2/27/2025
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On December 17 2024, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) issued Opinion 28/2024 addressing data protection aspects of processing in the context of AI models. This Opinion was requested by the Irish Data Protection...more
The Italian supervisory authority (Garante) issued an urgent order against Luka Inc. (Luka), a US-based developer and operator of the online app “Replika” (Replika), an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot on 2 February 2023....more
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the U.S. Department of Commerce published its AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) on 26 January 2023, a guidance document for organisations designing,...more
2/9/2023
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On 16 June 2022, the Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry and Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada introduced the Digital Charter Implementation Act 2022 to modernise the regulation on...more
On 15 September 2021, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published a report, “The right to privacy in the digital age”, that analyses how artificial intelligence (AI), through the use of...more
On 22 September 2021 the UK Government published its promised National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy, coming on the back of a raft of related plans, strategies and roadmaps, such as 2020’s National Data Strategy, the...more
On 21 April 2021, the European Commission published its Proposal for a Regulation on a European approach for Artificial Intelligence (the draft AI Regulation). The press release can be found here. The proposal differs...more