October is Cybersecurity Month, a time to raise awareness about online security and promote best practices to safeguard our data. Despite the enormous increase in cybercrime...

In January, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Action Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology together with car importers, two-wheeler importers and sports retailers initiated a ...

The DMA imposes a set of obligations on gatekeepers.

On 28 January 2021, the Council of Europe published a new set of guidelines on the use of facial recognition technologies

New York-based investment firm Tiger Global Management, focusing on private equity and public equity, is seeking USD 10bln for a record tech venture fund.

Seven out of the 328 pages of the new green/conservative government's programme are dedicated to the health sector.

Austria's Financial Market Authority has announced that its has partially suspended its approval for KuCoin EU Exchange GmbH under the EU's Markets in Crypto Assets regulations.

Cyber-Kriminalität kann jeden treffen. Im Jahr 2016 stieg die Zahl der angezeigten Cyber-Delikte um 30% auf über 13.000. Überdurchschnittlich stark legten Anzeigen von Datenbeschädigungen (+ 358%) und Störungen der Funktionstätigkeit von Computersystemen (+ 72%) zu.

Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 (Digital Operational Resilience Act – "DORA") entered into law on 17 January 2023. DORA will not only apply to most regulated financial institutions...

Austrian state funding bank AWS has launched the new funding scheme "AI Business and Growth" to support the use of artificial intelligence in Austrian companies.

Since 1 January 2019, the refund of Austrian withholding taxes requires a mandatory electronic pre-application to be filed.

The Digital Services Act, targeting numerous online/digital services from internet access providers to cloud and webhosting services, search engines, online platforms such as social media, online marketplaces, app stores and collaborative economy platforms, enters into force on 16 November 2022.

Both the European Commission and the European Parliament are undertaking more consistent activities to provide a new legal regime for Artificial Intelligence.

We reported on the draft of the Austrian Company Law Digitalisation Act 2022 (Gesellschaftsrechtliches Digitalisierungsgesetz 2022) in our TTP newsletter in September 2022.

The European Union Intellectual Property Office has launched the first ever European Blockchain platform to better serve intellectual property offices and their users.

On 13 February 2023 the European Parliamentary Research Service issued a study on the social approach to the transition to smart cities. The document explains what should be understood...

After lengthy negotiations, the European Parliament finally approved the AI Act on 13 March 2024. The adoption of the regulation is a milestone event that all EU...

Last year the EU finalised its pilot regime for market infrastructures based on distributed ledger technology (DLT). The DLT Pilot Regime introduces an EU regulatory sandbox...

KI ist gegenwärtig das wohl heißeste Thema der Rechtsbranche. Auch für den Bereich der internationalen Wirtschaftsstreitigkeiten findet eben eine...

UNIDROIT, one of the main global legal standard setters, is currently developing a common international approach with respect to certain private law aspects of digital assets.