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Ius Laboris

Massive fine for Uber of EUR 290 million

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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

DLA Piper

Ireland: Increased Regulatory Convergence of AI and Data Protection: X Suspends Training of AI Chatbot With EU User Data After...

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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

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European Commission publishes second report on application of GDPR

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On 25 July 2024, the EU Commission published its second report on the application of the GDPR (the ‘Second Report’), following its first report published in 2020....more

Alston & Bird

Dutch Data Protection Authority Warns that Using AI Chatbots Can Lead to Personal Data Breaches

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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

Fenwick & West LLP

EDPB and the Role of DPAs Under the EU AI Act

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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

BCLP

Auction of Personal Data: Clarification of the Concepts of Personal Data and Data Controller

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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

White & Case LLP

AI Watch: Global regulatory tracker - Italy

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Italy plays a prominent role in EU AI Act negotiations and engages in political discussions for future laws. Laws/Regulations directly regulating AI (the “AI Regulations”) Currently, there are no specific laws,...more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

The Netherlands: New Data Scraping Guidelines

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The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) has recently issued new guidance on data scraping. The guide highlights the significant legal risks it poses to personal data and the restrictions required under the GDPR....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Italian Data Protection Authority Alleges Breaches of GDPR by ChatGPT Platform

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On January 29, 2024, the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) notified OpenAI of breaches of data protection laws involving its ChatGPT platform....more

MoFo Tech

AI Trends For 2024 - Privacy Regulators Will Increase Scrutiny Of Data Collection For AI Training

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Privacy regulators, including the EU data protection authorities (EU DPAs), are expected to increase their scrutiny of data scraping to train AI algorithms. Data scraping involves the collection of large amounts of publicly...more

MoFo Tech

AI Trends For 2024 - EU DPAS Will Apply Requirements Of The EU AI ACT

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EU data protection authorities (DPAs) will likely start enforcing the requirements of the EU AI Act, the world’s first comprehensive AI regulation, despite the Act likely not entering into full force until 2026....more

BakerHostetler

DSIR Deeper Dive: Absent Legislation, Privacy Regulators Offer Guidance on AI

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By now, many of us are using AI, advising others about how to use AI, and waiting for some legislative miracle to give us some guardrails for what we can or cannot be doing with AI. A lot of effort has been put into tracking...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Die anwaltliche Tätigkeit in Verfahren wegen Geldbußen nach Art. 83 DS-GVO

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Europäische Datenschutzbehörden verhängen immer höhere Geldbußen. Dementsprechend nimmt auch die Bedeutung einer effektiven Verteidigung von Unternehmen in Bußgeldverfahren wegen DS-GVO-Verstößen stetig zu. Ursprünglich...more

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DSIR Deeper Dive: How International and Domestic Regulatory Enforcement Spotlights the Information Governance Tensions Between...

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As we noted in our 2023 DSIR, there has been a flurry of activity within the information governance space, at home and abroad. This activity deserves further analysis, because while it seems from a distance that there are...more

Morgan Lewis

European Parliament Adopts Position on Artificial Intelligence Act

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The European Parliament voted on June 14, 2023 to adopt its position on the draft EU Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act) that would impose a comprehensive regulatory regime on AI. More rules are expected to follow for...more

White & Case LLP

Somewhere Between a Summary and a Data Dump – CJEU Finds Controllers Must Provide Data Subjects a “Faithful And Intelligible” Copy...

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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

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European Advocate General rejects the need for “strict liability” in GDPR violations – The last word, however, is not yet spoken

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It is, by now, well known that not taking data protection seriously can prove costly for organizations. Since the introduction of the European General Data Protection Regulation (the "GDPR") in 2018, non-GDPR-compliant...more

Hogan Lovells

Public consultation on binding rules for phone marketing – Spanish update

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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

Latham & Watkins LLP

DSGVO-Bußgelder: Reicht eine „strict liability“ oder ist der Nachweis eines Verschuldens nötig?

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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

Latham & Watkins LLP

European Data Protection Board Focuses Coordinated Enforcement on Data Protection Officers

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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

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CNIL Weighs in On GDPR Applicability to US Company

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The French Data Protection Authority capped off 2022 by terminating an investigation into Lusha Systems, Inc.’s compliance with GDPR. CNIL concluded that the law did not apply to the US company’s activities...more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

Fine Imposed on Israeli Cyber Tech Company for Violating GDPR

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Greece’s privacy protection authority recently announced it was fining Intellexa, an Israeli cyber tech company, EUR 50,000.   The Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA) imposed the fine as part of an investigation it...more

Hogan Lovells

Building a common EU and UK BCR framework

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Hogan Lovells and Privacy Laws & Business have submitted a joint memorandum to data protection leaders in the EU and the UK advocating for a common framework for Binding Corporate Rules (BCR). The memorandum, submitted to the...more

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Hamburg DPA issues optimistic stance on Executive Order for EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework

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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

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Key Takeaways from the Latest Developments in the EU-U.S. Data Deal

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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

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