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Christel Schaldemose, the European Parliament's rapporteur on the Digital Services Act (DSA), said that with the DSA "we are going to take a stand against the Wild West the digital world has turned in...
Author(s): Lutz Riede, Tobias Timmann, Philipp Sebulke
The revision of Directive 2366/2015/EU (PSD 2), which entered into force in 2015, is eagerly awaited. After seven years, an adjustment of the legal regime appears sensible to take account of market ch...
Author(s): Alicia Hildner, Alexander Glos
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP has provided a comment letter to the Securities & Exchange Commission with respect to the SEC’s proposed rulemaking regarding special purpose acquisition compani...
Author(s): Michael Levitt, Jeremy Barr, Brian Lewis
EU study into medical AI highlights the key risks and shortcomings of legal frameworks. In short A new study from the European Parliament Parliamentary Research Service examines medical AI and the par...
Author(s): Harriet Hanks, Andrew Austin, Victor Garcia Lopez
The Digital Services Act (“DSA”) is currently one of the hot topics in the industry. As previously outlined in this blogpost, the DSA is one step closer to becoming law but there are still a lot of qu...
Author(s): Christina Moellnitz, Theresa Ehlen
Cryptoassets continue to be in the spotlight with prices no longer heading ‘to the moon’, the recent high-profile failure of an algorithmic stablecoin and the difficulties experienced by various servi...
Author(s): Richard Layther, Emma Gateaud, Claire Harrop
Across the EU and the UK, data privacy litigation is on the rise. Potential plaintiffs have multiple avenues at their disposal to bring actions for alleged violations of the General Data Protection Re...
Author(s): Christoph Werkmeister, Martin Mekat, Rhodri Thomas, Mark Egeler, Severin Kehrer, Basya Klinger, Sunil Singh, Vincent Piegsa
The UK government’s response to the data protection reform consultation “Data: a new direction” was published on 17 June 2022. While the response suggests that the main framework of the GDPR will be h...
Author(s): Giles Pratt, Katie Hyewon Sa