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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 […]
Ask them where they got their legal degree”, someone recently exhorted people to do whenever someone made a link between Recital 4 of the GDPR and Article 16 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, on the freedom to conduct business. Yet now the EU Court of Justice has confirmed for the second time that […]
Today’s CJEU judgment on press & fair compensation indirectly impacts the “Consent or Pay” & broader discussions on online advertising, through its teachings on the freedom to conduct business: any measure liable to have a sufficiently direct and significant effect on the freedom of the operators concerned to exercise a trade or profession constitutes a […]
What does the EU Council’s draft Presidency compromise text on the GDPR & ePrivacy Digital Omnibus tell us? (1) The Council (for now) seems to recognise the need to clarify the concept of “personal data”. As a Recital 27a would provide: The identification of a natural person should be assessed *ex ante and in concreto*, […]
Is “personal data” an asset? A study on human dignity & data protection has been released that on paper sounds like it should cover all the key topics. Its authors argue that individuals are “the primary right-holders in relation to the processing of their personal data” and that these “are dignity-relevant manifestations of the person […]
