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As part of our blog series on the EU Commission’s (EC) Digital Fairness Fitness Check and a potential new EU legislative proposal, the Digital Fairness Act, we recently took a closer look at ‘Social M...
Author(s): Tobias Timmann, Lutz Riede, Natalie Pettinger Kearney, Oliver Talhoff, Matthias Hofer
The EU is committed to bringing the wider financial sector into the digital age. To this end, it has proposed a new framework for secure and open access to customer data across a broader range of fina...
Author(s): Natalie Pettinger Kearney, Jimena Gonzalez, Elisabeth Schemmer, Daniel Klingenbrunn
On 4 February 2025, the European Commission published guidelines on prohibited practices under the EU’s AI Act (the Guidelines). These Guidelines provide the Commission’s interpretation of the prohibi...
Author(s): Jérôme Philippe, Christoph Werkmeister, Lutz Riede, Theresa Ehlen, Davide Borelli, Laéna Bouafy, Philipp Roos, Julia Utzerath, Isabella Oldani, Valentina Scolari
The European Commission has taken a significant step forward in clarifying the EU AI Act by releasing new implementation guidelines in early February 2025. These guidelines specifically address two fu...
Author(s): Jérôme Philippe, Christoph Werkmeister, Lutz Riede, Theresa Ehlen, Davide Borelli, Philipp Roos, Laéna Bouafy, Julia Utzerath, Isabella Oldani, Valentina Scolari
As you browse the internet, you may notice an increasing number of tech companies promoting their ‘privacy-friendly’ services. This shift toward personal data protection has also caught the eye of reg...
Author(s): Estella Dannhausen, Jérôme Philippe, Thomas Retière, Laéna Bouafy, Elaine Pajeot
The EU AI Act introduces a new regulatory framework that distinguishes between, among others, deployers and providers. Employers will typically assume the role of deployers when using AI systems to ma...
Author(s): Satya Staes Polet, Raquel Flórez, David Mendel, Leonhard Prasser, Hubertus Reinbach, Flavia Lang, Brunhilde Van Den Haute, Olga Chislova, Matteo Tola, Guy Huffen, Marina Sokolova, Blaise Nsenguwera
Today, the ECJ issued the long-awaited judgment in BSH v Electrolux. As expected in our last post, the court has taken a major step to clarify the approach to patent infringement actions in the EU. It...
Author(s): Eva Acker, Corin Gittinger, Allard van Duijn
The Government has now launched its consultation (the Consultation), which proposes an ‘entirely new approach’ to ransomware, aimed at ‘disrupting the business model of the ransomware gangs’. The cons...
Author(s): Rhodri Thomas, Giles Pratt, Rachael Annear, Christine Simpson, Tochukwu Egenti, Sunil Singh