Inside the RAID panel debate with the EDPB Chair and national DPAs

Fun day! After moderating a RAID panel with as panelists EDPB Chair Anu Talus, Luxembourg CNPD President Tine A. Larsen, Deputy Head of Data Protection Unit at the Commission’s DG Justice Karolina Mojzesowicz, MEP Brando Benifei and Gibson Dunn Partner Ahmed Baladi, I then was a speaker in a debate alongside Max Schrems of noyb.eu, Romain Gauthier of Didomi and Willy Mikalef of Bird & Bird.

During our RAID panel on “Making Tech Legislation Work in Practice”, we had really interesting exchanges, notably with the Commission expressing a telling view on Article 64(2) GDPR Opinions and the CNPD expressing an interest in more stakeholder exchanges.

Key topics:

1) What are the challenges in implementing the new wave of tech legislation: the AI Act, DSA and DMA?

2) Regional harmonisation: how is implementation and enforcement going to happen in the same way across Europe?

3) Lessons from the experience of GDPR: how can we avoid overstretching DPAs

Then, during the “Future of User Consent” webinar, we discussed some key data protection, ePrivacy and AI topics:

1. EDPB cookie banner taskforce: Compliance and Privacy-by-Design guidelines (tackling some of the questions we’re getting from clients, such as on “dark patterns” and the use of colours)

2. PayOrOkay: Current state of regulation and best practices for publishers (a key topic for many of our clients is the impact of the current Opinion vs the likely scope of the upcoming Guidelines)

3. Privacy and AI: How to ensure legal AI use (issues we often handle for clients have to do with the differences in legal grounds for first-party data and third-party data, notably re training of models)

Recording: https://lnkd.in/e9PfJhkM

Thanks to all co-speakers, really insightful day!