The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) won't take further regulatory action for the moment against LinkedIn for using personal data to train its generative AI model. That's because the platform has sufficiently addressed its concerns, the watchdog announced Friday. The DPC stressed, however, that it hasn't approved the use and will continue monitoring LinkedIn's GDPR compliance.
The European Court of Justice accepted an appeal (Latombe v Commission, Case C-703/25 P) filed by French Parliament member Philippe Latombe of a General Court ruling that tossed his challenge to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (see Ref:2510300002]).
French DPA CNIL is taking part in an initiative to assess the impact of AI on the role of data protection officers (DPOs), it announced Wednesday.
The ICO updated its guidance Tuesday on personal data processing for law enforcement purposes. Privacy rules for the police, criminal courts, prisons and other law-enforcement-related entities are governed by Part 3 of the Data Protection Act 2018, which is separate from the U.K. GDPR regime, the watchdog noted.
Differences in data transfer regulatory regimes adversely affect international trade in digital and data-reliant services, economists from the European Centre for International Political Economy said in a paper published last month.
The EU's new traveler prescreening system must ensure that people's fundamental rights are protected and that they have an effective judicial remedy if they're denied entry to the EU, European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Wojciech Wiewiorowski blogged Monday.
The European Data Protection Board could approve guidelines for processing personal data to target or deliver political ads at its Tuesday plenary session, according to the agenda. Other items teed up for action include updates to guidelines on web-scraping in the context of generative AI and an opinion on the European Commission's draft adequacy decision for Brazil.
"Data protection isn’t just paperwork and fine print -- it actually shapes how migration and asylum systems work on the ground," U.K. civil liberties and human rights charity Statewatch said Friday as it published a guide to privacy for practitioners.
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) should revise its guidelines on the interaction between the GDPR and the Digital Services Act (DSA), and refrain from interpreting DSA provisions that fall outside its expertise, the Interactive Advertising Bureau Europe said Friday.
The ICO wants feedback on new guidance about its investigation and enforcement processes under the U.K. GDPR and Data Protection 2018, it announced Friday.