On 17 July 2020, in the Schrems II judgment, the CJEU declared the Privacy Shield invalid as a mechanism for the transfer of personal data from the EU to the United States.

Today the EBA published a Peer Review Report on the authorisation of Payment Institutions (PIs) and Electronic Money Institutions (EMIs) by the national authorities / financial regulators.

The European Central Bank (ECB) provided its opinion in February 2021.

Chances are you have already interacted with generative AI – whether by prompting ChatGPT to write a poem about the unbearable lightness of being on a Thursday night, or by generating images of "Pikachu riding a horse in Tuscany, ukiyo-e style" with Dall-E.

On 29 June 2022, the main European institutions reached a political agreement on the text, which will soon be put to a vote in the European Parliament.

On 29 December 2021, a data subject filed a complaint with the Belgian Data Protection Authority (BDPA) due to the receipt of a direct marketing e-mail from a company which he had not been a customer for two years.

On 10th October 2022, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) approved Europrivacy, the first and currently only European Data Protection Seal under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

US is one of the few industrialized countries in the world that lacks a single national privacy law.

As from 1 January 2023, provisions of the new law of contracts will apply.

Since 1 August 2022, Directive (EU) 2019/790 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market and amending Directives 96/9/EC and 2001/29/EC (‘DSMD') has been transposed into book XI of the Belgian Economic Law Code.

The security of IT systems and the data they contain is becoming increasingly crucial for businesses and public institutions, to the point of becoming a political priority in the face of what are now global and sometimes state-run IT threats.

Who has never found themselves clicking on a huge green button underneath the privacy settings, convinced that this would validate their choices, only to realise that they had just, against all odds, accepted all the default settings?

Over the past years, "legal tech" solutions have become increasingly popular to help inhouse legal departments and law firms share and reuse existing knowledge.

On May 3, 2022 the European Commission released a proposal of the European Parliament and of the Council for a European Health Data Space Regulation.

In addition to the GDPR and national framework laws on the protection of personal data, many specific national laws impose or regulate certain data processing operations by public and private entities.