Category: Data law news
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Data Protection Day: podcast on AI & GDPR
Fun 45min interview with Legal4Tech on the GDPR, data protection concerns and AI, the concept of personal data and more – with a short video excerpt here. Listen to the full podcast on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.Happy Data Protection Day! Thanks Rosalia Anna D’Agostino, Giacomo Amodio & Giacomo Di Gregorio for the chat.
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Op-Ed: Who dares question the primacy of data protection?
Let the name-calling begin. Companies looking to leverage data are now told that it is just like they are responsible for oil spills, cancer and drug cartel violence. As a lawyer working for some of the companies facing these absurd comparisons, I thought I would tackle another controversial stance now: just how absolute (or relative)…
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Op-Ed: A critical analysis of the EDPB’s “Pay or Consent” Opinion
Illustration: Dall-E rendering of just how potentially evil the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and certain privacy rights campaigners view the “Pay or Consent” approach + large companies. I didn’t try to get any drug cartel references in there, though as a lawyer acting for adtech companies I have been likened to a drug cartel…
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Op-Ed: If AI replaces work for junior lawyers, what happens next?
“AI won’t replace you – a lawyer who uses it will” is quickly becoming a cliché – but what about junior lawyers and the next generation(s)? A newly published study on legal contract review brings this question again into focus (Better Call GPT, Comparing Large Language Models Against Lawyers), as it concludes that “LLMs perform…
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Op-Ed: Maybe no consent needed for advertising under ePrivacy “cookie” rule?
Reading through the CNIL’s new decision against Yahoo on cookies brings back to mind a question that has stuck with me for well over a decade: what is the exact reasoning that has led many EU-based authorities to say that advertising cookies/etc. are not strictly necessary for the provision of a service, and why does…
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EDPB seeks to redefine ePrivacy – Part II: Overbroad notions and regulator activism?
Last week, I questioned the European Data Protection Board’s very authority to adopt its newly published Guidelines 2/2023 on Technical Scope of Art. 5(3) of ePrivacy Directive (i.e. the so-called “cookie” rule), guidelines according to which those rules should also apply to a broad range of other technologies and information, such as IP addresses, pixels…
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EDPB seeks to redefine ePrivacy – Part I: By what authority?
“They will cover many scenarios”, said an EDPB member informally a couple of days ago, talking about what would become the EDPB’s new Guidelines 2/2023 on Technical Scope of Art. 5(3) of ePrivacy Directive (subject to a public consultation – more on that later). After having gone through them in detail, I cannot help but…