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European Data Protection Board Report on AI Privacy Risks & Mitigations in Large Language Models

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Large Language Models (“LLMs”) are a subset of artificial intelligence (“AI”) which use a type of machine learning called deep learning in order to understand how characters, words, and sentences function together. The advent...more

Alston & Bird

European Commission Moves to Extend Free Flows of Personal Data to the UK

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On March 18, 2025, the European Commission proposed to extend its adequacy decision in favor of the United Kingdom (‘UK’) for an additional six-month period. This would allow free flows of personal data from the EU to the UK...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Forget It!: EDPB Announces Focus on Right to Erasure in 2025

Right of erasure (or “right to be forgotten”) has been selected by the European Data Protection Board as its priority enforcement topic for 2025. This work is being done under the “Coordinated Enforcement Framework” or “CEF.”...more

DLA Piper

EU: EDPB Opinion on AI Provides Important Guidance Though Many Questions Remain

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A much-anticipated Opinion from the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) on AI models and data protection has not resulted in the clear or definitive guidance that businesses operating in the EU had hoped for. The Opinion...more

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EDPB Opinion on controller accountability in sub-processing chains

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On 9 October 2024, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published its Opinion 22/2024, clarifying the responsibilities of controllers when relying on processors and sub-processors. This guidance emphasizes the importance...more

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EU Data Protection Regulators Publish Additional Guidance On The EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework

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Last month, the European Data Protection Board – which is composed of the national data protection authorities (‘Supervisory Authorities’) of the countries in the European Economic Area (‘EEA’), as well as the European Data...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Can Privacy Be Bought? How Scrutiny of Meta’s Subscription Model Has Wider Implications –PART II

In Part I, we discussed the European Commission’s (“Commission”) disapproval of Meta’s “pay or consent” subscription model. In Part II, we delve into the European Commission’s findings, prior findings by the European Data...more

International Lawyers Network

Data Privacy Guide - Romania

Governing Data Protection Legislation - 2.1. Overview of principal legislation - The General Regulation Data Protection (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (“GDPR”), as implemented by Law 190/2018 is the principal data...more

Cooley LLP

Breached the GDPR? Calculate your own fine!

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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a difficult piece of legislation to comply with, and not meeting some of its requirements may lead to hefty fines of up to 4% of global annual revenues of the preceding year or...more

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This Is Not a Test: The Significant Impacts of the Ireland Data Protection Commission’s Meta Decision

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It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), through Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), issued another fine against a large US technology company. What may come as a surprise is the...more

McDermott Will & Emery

EU-US Transatlantic Data Flows Framework: EU Supervisors Shine Light at the End of the Tunnel

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In a recent non-binding opinion, EU regulators expressed timid positivity about the European Commission’s draft adequacy decision on the EU-US transatlantic data flows framework (Data Privacy Framework or DPF). While some...more

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EDPB publishes opinion on the draft adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework

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The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) issued its opinion on the draft adequacy decision of the European Commission (Draft Decision) regarding the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF) on 28 February 2023. The DPF is a...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

One-Two Punch: Lessons from the Irish DPC’s WhatsApp Decision

2023 continues to be a busy year for European data protection authorities. Following its release of the Irish Data Protection Commission’s (DPC’s) binding decisions in cases against Facebook and Instagram, the European Data...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

"42", the Answer to the Number of Authorities Notified in Cross-Border Breaches – Don't Panic!

Last week, the European Data Protection Board ("EDPB") published a long-awaited update of its guidance on breach notification—which did not contain much news generally. However, it does bring a significant new burden for...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

#tiktokcringe: Targeted Ads Are No 'Legitimate Basis' for Data Processing, Says Italy's Data Privacy Protection Authority -...

European data authorities are increasingly united in policing data and privacy violations - It began, innocently enough, with an update to TikTok's privacy policy. Via upbeat messaging, users learned that they would soon...more

Lighthouse

2021 Data Privacy Overview: New Regulations and Guidance

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While everyone hoped that 2021 would be less tumultuous than 2020, it certainly did not turn out that way in the end. The same was true in the world of data privacy – with sweeping new data protection regulations and guidance...more

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Europe OPTS for Pragmatism with New SCCS and ICO Opens Consultations on UK SCCS — What Companies Need to Do Next

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The dust has settled on the new EU standard contractual clauses for cross-border data transfers (“New SCCs”), but confusion still reins on how the New SCCs cover data transfers and what companies need to do to take advantage...more

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Hogan Lovells responds to the European Commission’s consultation

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On 6 August, Hogan Lovells submitted its response to the European Commission’s public consultation on its proposed AI Regulation (Draft Regulation). Our view is that the Draft Regulation is an ambitious and comprehensive...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Updata: Your quarterly privacy & cybersecurity update - April to June 2021

Welcome to the latest edition of Updata - the international update from Eversheds Sutherland’s dedicated Privacy and Cybersecurity team. Updata provides you with a compilation of privacy and cybersecurity regulatory and...more

BakerHostetler

International Data Protection Update – First Quarter 2021

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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

Hogan Lovells

How much can your car know about you? – EU guidelines on data protection and connected vehicles

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Cars today are able to keep us permanently plugged-in, while collecting and generating increasing amounts of information as a result of their interaction with the driver, passengers, pedestrians, other vehicles, road...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

EDPB Publishes New Guidance for Data Breach Notification

On January 18, 2021, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), comprised of all national supervisory authorities (SAs) of the European Union, published draft guidelines for data breach notification (the Guidelines)....more

Jones Day

Jones Day Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Update | Vol. 27

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United States - Regulatory—Policy, Best Practices, and Standard - NIST Unveils Draft Guidance to Protect Critical Infrastructure - On October 22, 2020, the National Institute of Standards and Technology ("NIST")...more

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Recent Developments in Data Privacy Laws Impacting U.S. Companies

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American companies should take notice of some important developments in data privacy laws in the U.S. and in the European Union. California Privacy Rights Act - On November 3, 2020, California voters approved the...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

European Data Protection Board Forms Two New Taskforces to Address Schrems II Aftermath

On Friday September 4, 2020, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), a body consisting of representatives of all the Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) in the European Economic Area, announced that it had formed two new...more

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