The Italian Data Protection Authority "Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali" recently banned the use of ChatGPT in Italy due to allegations of unlawful collection of personal data and the lack of an age verification system for children.

Der Gesetzgeber täte gut daran, rasch Rahmenbedingungen für KI-Anwendungen zu schaffen. Das hilft, Österreich als Innovationsstandort zu positionieren. Auch das Spannungsfeld zum Datenschutz muss aufgelöst werden.

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OpenAI, revered for its cutting-edge technology and leadership in the field of AI, unveiled "Sora", a groundbreaking text-to-video generator, just a few weeks ago.

The first meeting of the European Network of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Excellence Centres ("AI Network") took place at the beginning of October 2020.

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The taxation of cryptocurrency transactions is a hot topic. The Austrian Ministry of Finance recently issued an interesting ruling outlining when mining for cryptocurrencies in Austria by a non-resident taxpayer...

Decentralised Finance (DeFi) is without question a rapidly evolving area at the intersection of blockchain technology, crypto assets and traditional financial services.

2022 was a difficult year for cryptocurrencies and other digital assets, with markets generally performing poorly, the collapse of terra luna, ...

The hype surrounding NFTs and crypto assets appears infinite and is raising more and more questions and challenges for the legal profession in Austria and beyond.

November 2025 – As Europe moves ahead with the AI Act, the European Commission has made clear that there will be "no stop the clock, no grace period, and no pause"...

The NFT boom continues. After Christie's managed to auction an NFT linked to an artwork for over USD 69m this March, the original program code of the World Wide Web...

The Digital Content Directive lays down subjective and objective requirements for "conformity" of the digital content or digital service.

Starting 2 February 2025, Art. 4 of the AI Act will require businesses to ensure their workforce is equipped with a sufficient level of artificial intelligence (AI) literacy.

Business secrets are essential assets of companies, and are often the reason for a company having a competitive lead in a market.

To mint NFT art, you need to have enough cryptocurrency in your wallet (and even more to buy it). A successful NFT artist could then also pay his or her studio assistants in cryptocurrency from the proceeds of the sales.

The revision of the NIS Directive (EU) 2016/1148 ("NIS 1") was published on 27 December 2022 in the form of Directive (EU) 2022/2555 ("NIS 2") and entered...

30 November 2022. Overnight, AI becomes a commodity accessible to everyone. Within a short period of time 152 million users had interacted with OpenAI's ChatGPT.