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In 2026, agentic AI has moved from being a trendy tinkerer’s experiment to a tool of mass appeal, with corporate AI agents being deployed increasingly often and most high-profile AI labs launching personal AI agent offerings one after another, over the course of just a few months. The period in which I wrote my previous […]
The smart glasses debate has brought to the fore reactionary views that have been prevalent throughout history, at least since the portable camera was invented. In my previous deep dive (“Blinded by the LED: smart glasses, GDPR, and the illusion of hardware indicators“), I highlighted the fact that the same arguments being made today about […]
Smart glasses are attracting much attention these days. Already significant sales seem to pale in comparison to the explosion of social commentary on them, just as the segment of camera-enabled wearables is growing also in terms of form factors and devices, with AI-powered pins, portable speakers and even headphones around the corner. A few months […]
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) can adopt various legal instruments, including Guidelines and Opinions, that are formally non-binding. Yet if supervisory authorities rarely (if ever) depart from them, controllers and processors structure their compliance efforts around them, and data subjects rely upon them in complaints and litigation, perhaps that formal status deserves a second […]
How the EDPB’s attempt to rewrite key data protection concepts creates more issues than it solves Through its Guidelines 02/2026 on Anonymisation of 7 July 2026, the European Data Protection Board seems at first glance to have done the honourable thing: admitting defeat and moving on. But behind the apparent recognition of the relative nature […]
Another week, another product announcement from someone involving AI in your pocket, on your wrist, in front of your eyes. I have met people whose lives have literally been transformed as a result of some of these tools, such as an individual who is suddenly able to use a camera in glasses to film his […]
OK, a few words about the CNIL decision re IQVIA. Spoiler alert: it’s in my view a completely wrong decision, and it deliberately misquotes the CJEU’s SRB judgment: 1. “[T]his role as controller prevents, in itself, the data from being regarded as anonymous” (CNIL, §90): incorrect! The CJEU explicitly states the following in §76 of […]
The ICO’s new adtech report to the UK government contains important lessons, also for legislators & regulators from all over Europe. Its suggestion is to foresee a consent exemption under ePrivacy rules (PECR in the UK) for “first-party” use of storage & processing capabilities of a device for the following purposes, if certain safeguards are […]
Why is the “personal data” definition aspect of the Digital Omnibus deemed controversial by some? And why are the alleged issues with the definition in fact absent? The Commission’s proposal is to codify recent case law of the EU Court of Justice, notably the SRB judgment (4 Sept 2025), by putting it into the law […]
How solid is your anonymisation? Is “good enough + contractual prohibition to re-identify” really sufficient? The Commission’s DMA team seems to think so, though its own idea of “good enough” relies on magic personal data scrubbers. Perhaps the Commission’s DMA team should read up again on GDPR case law on “personal data” (Breyer, Scania, SRB […]
