On 4 June 2021, the European Commission adopted two sets of new Standard Contractual Clauses ("SCCs"), taking into account the Schrems II judgment...

The UK Government's consultation on questions contained in its AI white paper for the implementation of a pro-innovation approach for AI regulation has now closed and further guidance on how to achieve...

The EU Regulation on harmonized rules on fair access to and use of data (the "Data Act") has been formally adopted by the Council of the EU as of 27 November 2023 at its first reading.

As previously reported, on 13 December 2022, the European Commission published its draft adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (the "Framework").

President Biden signed an Executive Order on "Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities" ("Executive Order") on 7 October 2022.

On 13th of October 2023, the Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA") imposed a financial penalty on Equifax Ltd ("Equifax UK") of £11 million for the role Equifax UK...

On 24 August 2023, in conjunction with data protection authorities in eleven other countries, the UK's Information Commissioner's Office ("ICO") published a joint statement regarding data scraping and

The new legislative framework is aimed at fostering the government's ambition to capture a 6% share of the AV market by 2035 which the (DfT) has estimated could be worth upwards of £41.7 billion.

In this article, we describe the main features of the incoming DSA and briefly analyse its interaction with the e-Commerce Directive in relation to the liability of online intermediaries.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority has published an initial report on its investigation into AI Foundation Models (FMs), which addresses competitive concerns in the FM...

On 4 May 2023, the CJEU provided a preliminary ruling for Case C-487/21, in which the Austrian Court sought guidance on the scope of information accessible to data subjects under the right to access a copy of personal data, as provided for by Article 15(3) of the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR").

Clearview AI is a company which enables its users to search a database of billions of images scraped from the internet for matches to a particular image and face.

On 16 March 2023, an Advocate General Opinion (the "Opinion") established that automated credit-scoring for the purpose of obtaining a loan constitutes ‘profiling'.

In a significant development concerning data privacy and protection, Ireland's Data Protection Commission's ("DPC") final decision imposes a fine of €345 million on the popular social media platform...

The 11th December — the day that Google lost its first antitrust trial. Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite, launched their litigation against the anticompetitive management of Google and Apple's App Stores in 2020.

On 4 May 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") delivered a preliminary ruling for the case UI v Österreichische Post AG (Case C-300/21).

A new Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (the Bill) in the UK is proposed to substantially modify the prevailing privacy framework derived from EU law.

The NIS Directive was the first piece of EU-wide legislation on cybersecurity, and aimed to achieve a high common level of cybersecurity across the EU.

R (PACCAR Inc and others) v Competition Appeal Tribunal and others [2023] UKSC 28 considers the statutory interpretation of a "damages-based agreement" ("DBA")...

As artificial intelligence ("AI") continues to evolve, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity ("ENISA") has recently published an overview report on AI cybersecurity and standards.