UK’s top Websites Receive Cookie Warnings from the Information Commissioner
By Claude-Étienne Armingaud and Sophie Verstraeten The UK’s Information Commissioner (the “ICO”) has recently sent warnings to the UK’s most visited websites to inform them that they may face...
View ArticleProvisional Political Agreement on Landmark AI Regulation in Europe
By: Giovanni Campi, Petr Bartoš, and Kathleen Keating In a landmark development, EU lawmakers reached on 8 December 2023 a provisional political agreement on the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act)....
View ArticleCJEU Holds German Provisions for Imposing Fines on Companies for GDPR...
By Dr. Thomas Nietsch In a judgment dated 5 December 2023 (Case C-807/21 – Deutsche Wohnen) presented by the Higher Regional Court Berlin (Kammergericht), the Court of Justice for the European Union...
View ArticleCJEU Decides on Use of Automatically Generated Scoring Values
By Dr. Thomas Nietsch In its judgment dated 7 December 2023 (C-634/21 – Schufa) presented by the Administrative Court Wiesbaden (Germany), the court held that Article 22 of the GDPR (Art. 22 GDPR)...
View ArticleFTC Bans Rite Aid from Using AI Facial Recognition Without Reasonable Safeguards
By Whitney E. McCollum and Eric F. Vicente Flores The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a first-of-its-kind proposed order prohibiting Rite Aid Corporation from using facial recognition technology...
View ArticleFTC Issues First Order Prohibiting Sale of Sensitive Location Data
By Eric F. Vicente Flores and Whitney E. McCollum On 9 January, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its first settlement prohibiting a data broker from sharing or selling sensitive...
View Article“Grandma, I have [not] been kidnapped”: The FCC Bans AI-Generated Robocalls
By: Andrew Glass, Gregory Blase, and Joshua Durham Effective immediately, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) banned AI-generated phone calls with its recent Declaratory Ruling (the Ruling)....
View ArticleICO Introduces Consultation Series on Data Protection and Generative AI
By Claude-Étienne Armingaud & Sophie Verstraeten The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) recently launched a consultation series on how data protection laws should apply to the development and...
View ArticleAnticipated Tightened Data Privacy Regulations: Raid on Worldcoin
By Paul Haswell and Sarah Kwong In late January 2024, Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog, the Personal Data Privacy Commission (“PCPD”) raided six premises of Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency initiative...
View ArticleTennessee Moves First on AI Protections With ELVIS Act
By Jason W. Callen and Christopher J. Valente On 21 March 2024, Tennessee became the first state in the United States to prohibit unauthorized use of artificial intelligence (AI) to replicate an...
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