Compliance Perspectives: The EU Whistleblower Directive
For critical infrastructure markets such as industrial, communications, transportation, education, and financial sectors, what AI is and is not, and what is it used for, and its risk classification has great bearing on the...more
The European Union (EU) is leading the global charge with AI regulations. U.S. companies are not beyond their regulatory reach, however, and should be preparing their AI risk mitigation efforts accordingly....more
To help organizations 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 topical digital regulatory and compliance...more
European Parliament Approves EU AI Act - On March 13, 2024, the European Parliament approved the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (“AI Act”). A first of its kind legal framework for AI, the AI Act has extraterritorial effect,...more
Businesses increasingly rely on technology containing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to streamline operations, enhance employee experiences and drive strategic decision-making. The integration of AI into work systems, including...more
On March 13, 2024, the European Parliament approved the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act. This law is the first-ever comprehensive legal framework on AI and will likely be a model around the world. The AI Act takes a...more
On February 2, 2024, EU member states approved the final text of the EU's Artificial Intelligence Act, providing an official framework for the use of AI. According to the European Parliament, its priority is to "make sure...more
To help organizations 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 digital regulatory and compliance...more
On January 17, 2024, the Council of the European Union (Council) and the European Parliament (Parliament) announced that a political agreement had been reached on (i) a new Regulation setting forth a single anti-money...more
Welcome to this week’s issue of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and its government affairs affiliate, ML Strategies. The year 2023 has been a significant one for artificial intelligence and AI...more
On October 7, 2023, California took a significant step toward promoting transparency and integrity of voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) and climate-related claims by enacting Assembly Bill 1305: the Voluntary Carbon Market...more
Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past...more
On April 20, 2023, the agreed text of the proposed European Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation was given final approval by the European Parliament. The Regulation is intended to improve legal certainty in the regulatory...more
On June 29, 2022, the European Parliament, the Commission, and the Council reached a provisional agreement on the European Union proposal to update Regulation 2015/847 on information accompanying the transfer of funds ("TFR")...more
A draft report on the impact of crypto and blockchain on taxation was tabled before the European Parliament sub-committee on tax matters on 25 April 2022. The draft report consists of a motion for a European Parliament...more
Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption developments from the past month, with links to...more
CFTC - CFTC Adopts New Position Limits Requirements - On October 15, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission adopted new rules on position limits. As described in greater detail in Katten’s advisory, CFTC Adopts New...more
An ECON draft report on digital finance recommends legislative action in relation to cryptoassets and cyber resilience and a framework for digital onboarding. On 4 June 2020, the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary...more
Last week, the European Parliament approved a resolution calling on the EU Commission (Commission) to protect individuals’ rights in the context of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making (ADM). The...more
Facebook has agreed to pay $550 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit claiming that Zuck & Co.’s use of facial recognition technology violated Illinois’ biometric privacy law. Though the settlement is little more than “a...more
On September 19, 2019, the European Parliament Research Service (EPRS) released a paper, European Union (EU) Guidelines on Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (AI): Context and Implementation (“Paper”), to shed light on the...more
In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the European Parliament's report on whether and how the use of blockchain technology can comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, as well as...more
On 12 February 2019, the European Parliament adopted a Resolution on a comprehensive European industrial policy on artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. After describing AI as "one of the strategic technologies of the...more