Two of the more controversial pieces of legislation enacted by the EU dealing with the nebulous concept of governing data are the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the EU AI Act. For companies, these regulations often represent a bothersome compliance hurdle and barrier to entry into the EU market. From a very high level, […]
Month: May 2026
Data protection digest 4-18 May 2026: Digital euro, Age verification, AI rules – challenges facing EU privacy regulators
Digital euro preparations The proposed Digital Euro Regulation is currently being voted on in the European Parliament, and the Eurosystem is preparing for its issuance by 2029. The French and German data protection regulators are closely working together on the privacy implications of the project. Reportedly, the ECB and national central banks will manage the […]
Data protection digest 3 May 2026: 10 years on, the GDPR continues to support the digital market, legal certainty and enforcement
10 years after the GDPR was adopted The GDPR, which replaced the outdated EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC, aimed to respond to changes in Internet technology, an increase in cross-border data flows, and globalisation, which posed new challenges to the protection of personal data. In addition to supporting the digital market, legal certainty and uniform […]
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