The Irish Data Protection Commission circulated a draft decision in a TikTok inquiry to other concerned supervisory authorities across the EU and European Economic Area (EEA), the Irish DPC said Monday.
The European Commission is "studying the impact" of President Donald Trump's executive order that requires independent agencies and executive branch bodies to submit regulatory actions to the White House before they're finalized (see 2502180069). The order could influence the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, an EC spokesperson emailed Friday.
Ireland will announce plans to introduce a Regulation of Artifical Intelligence Bill in its spring legislative program that will enact the EU AI Act into the country's law, AI attorney Barry Scannell, wrote in a post on LinkedIn Thursday. "[S]till in its early stages," the legislation would enact the EU AI Act into national law, said Scannell, a member of the country's AI Advisory Council. The council was established in 2024 by the Minister of State for Digital to provide independent expert advice to the government on AI policy.
The Iceland Data Protection Authority announced that it fined Primary Care of the Capital Area $36,000 for processing personal data in the common health register system without properly meeting the requirements of the Medical Register Act. Its investigation showed that Primary Care hadn't been authorized to merge its health care system with those of other parties.
The Latvian data protection authority Wednesday advised organizations on gaps it sees in privacy policies and how to fix them. One problem, the Data State Inspectorate said, is that privacy policies tend to be posted on a website in a way that makes them hard to find and access. Another is that organizations often use standardized or copied privacy policies instead of adapting them to their own unique business.
X is challenging a decision in the Berlin Regional Court that it said Tuesday "egregiously undermines our fundamental right to due process and threatens the privacy rights and free speech of our users."
Public administrations must take data protection by design into account in public contracts and that requirement isn't fulfilled by simply including generic clauses regarding General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) obligations, Spain's data protection agency said Wednesday.
The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) published its Tech Horizons 2025 report, identifying privacy and data protection implications of four emerging technologies: (1) connected transport, (2) quantum sensing and imaging, (3) digital diagnostics, therapeutics and healthcare infrastructure (such as AI-assisted diagnosis) and (4) synthetic media (partly or wholly generated using AI/machine learning) and its identification and detection.
A high school in Romania breached the General Data Protection Regulation by processing personal data through a video surveillance system whose monitors were illegally and excessively installed in the principal's office, giving his personal phone access to images and audio captured in hallways, the stairwell and bathrooms. The Romanian National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing announced results of its investigation Feb. 7.
The EU needs a consistent approach to age assurance, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) said in a statement Wednesday after its Feb. 9 plenary. It set out specific guidance and high-level principles arising from the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that it said should be considered when personal data is processed in the context of age verification.