The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 11: Signal and Noise: The New Administration, Privacy, and Our Digital Rights with Cindy Cohn of Electronic Frontier Foundation
Digital rights, privacy, and government policies have been a hot topic over the past month as the Trump Administration comes on board. But the truth is, data protection and safeguarding our freedoms are not partisan issues....more
On 9 December 2023, European Parliament negotiators and the Council presidency agreed on the final version of what is claimed to be the world's first-ever comprehensive legal framework on Artificial Intelligence; the European...more
In our last update, we relayed reports of the final roadblocks to adoption of the EU’s AI Act. The AI Act has been in development in the EU since 2017 when the European Council called for a “sense of urgency to address...more
The EU Commission considers intervening in the commercial relationship between large Content and Application Providers (CAPs) and Internet Access Providers (ISPs) by introducing a sort of compensation payable by certain...more
Judge Albright of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas granted, in part, Meta Platforms, Inc.’s (“Meta”) 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss (“Motion”) in Grecia Estate Holdings LLC v. Meta Platforms, Inc....more
To help organisations stay on top of the main developments in European digital compliance, Morrison & Foerster’s European Digital Regulatory Compliance team reports on some of the main European digital regulatory and...more
On January 26, 2022, the European Commission published its proposal for a “European Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles for the Digital Decade”. The Declaration transposes fundamental rights of EU citizens into the...more
The Central Bank of Russia did another “shot” at the rights of cryptocurrency holders on July 19, 2021. The Bank issued an Information Letter No. IN-06-59 / 52 “On certain types of financial instruments” on this day. Now...more
In Valve v. UFC-Que Choisir, the Paris Court of First Instance (the “Paris Court”) ruled that the principle of copyright exhaustion does apply to digital copies of video games. The principle of copyright exhaustion—also known...more
What businesses need to know for a strategic approach - Benchmarks focus on human rights, labor rights, political rights, “digital rights” (human rights in the Internet era) and wider sustainability efforts. They...more