Regulation doesn't block Europe from leading in AI innovation, but fragmentation in areas such as employment and the capital markets makes it harder to scale up, EU AI Office Director Lucilla Sioli said Thursday on a Center for Strategic & International Studies webinar.
The EU Data Act, which takes effect Sept. 12, is awash with uncertainties that will likely spark challenges from consumer and plaintiff lawyers and impel data protection authorities (DPAs) to "become active very early on," Latham & Watkins data, cyber and tech lawyer Tim Wybitul told Privacy Daily this week.
The Polish Data Protection Authority slammed ING Bank Slaski on Tuesday with a $5 million fine (18,416,400 Polish zloty) for excessive and unjustified scanning of customer ID documents.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and data protection attorneys are looking to advise companies on key changes to the U.K.'s privacy landscape as a result of the U.K. Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA), in effect as of Wednesday.
Femtech offers groundbreaking innovations in women's health but also poses serious privacy threats, data protection lawyers said. Even the EU, with its General Data Protection Regulation and AI Act, and the U.K., with its version of the GDPR, may not always provide adequate protection for the highly sensitive personal data that femtech apps collect and use, they added.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's announcement Tuesday that the U.K. dropped its demand that Apple provide "backdoor" access to users' encrypted data brought cheers from the tech and privacy sectors.
Europeans seeking compensation for non-material damages such as emotional stress arising from data breaches shouldn't generally expect large sums, according to attorneys from William Fry and Austrian lawyer and privacy advocate Max Schrems.
Legislation significantly revamping Israel's data protection law took effect Thursday, but the country's privacy watchdog said it will delay enforcement of one of its provisions until October.
London's High Court of Justice Monday tossed a challenge by nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation to provisions of the U.K. Online Safety Act (OSA) it claimed could jeopardize the privacy and safety of Wikipedia contributors, but stressed that contributors must be protected.
Australian telco Optus could face fines of more than 21 trillion Australian dollars ($13.7 trillion) for a September 2022 data breach that compromised the privacy of nearly 10 million people, the Australian Information Commissioner (AIC) said Friday.