Unpacking the leaked final text of the upcoming AI Act
Very important leak – current version, and potentially final, of the AIAct. Read Luca Bertuzzi’s explanations of the context carefully!
Scope: Artificial intelligence
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Retrospective for 2024, and trends for 2025
Looking back + forwards, 4 big topics for me on LinkedIn in 2024 & likely still for 2025 are the following:– ePrivacy– “Consent or Pay”– AI & personal data– Cybersecurity The key ePrivacy topic was the European Data Protection Board’s guidelines on the technical scope of Art. 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive – basically, “to […]
The Belgian DPA applies the landmark CJEU SCHUFA ruling to automated profiling
The Belgian Data Protection Authority has adopted a new decision that applies the principles on automated decision-making set out by the CJEU in its SCHUFA I decision of 7 December 2023. Some specific considerations: – This decision is a “prima facie” one, i.e. not yet a full decision on the merits, to order the controller […]
Op-ed: AI training data = (non-)personal data? And is consent really relevant?
The European Data Protection Board is at it again: an urgent procedure has been launched to obtain clarification on “some of the core issues that arise in the context of processing for the purpose of developing and training an AI model”. The aim? To bring “some much needed clarity into this complex area”. Yet the […]
Moderating the executive regulatory panel on global data strategies at RAID
Panel I’m moderating at RAID: 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. Topic: “Making Tech Legislation Work in Practice Time: noon CET on Tuesday 24 September Key topics: – What […]
Moving past the generative AI hype to focus on real governance and liability
Yes, GenerativeAI is what people are talking about. Yes, it presents specific risks (notably re disinformation). But from an aigovernance and liability perspective, the risks associated with predictive/discriminative AI are just as relevant. In her speech today re the State of the European Union, Ursula von der Leyen said that we should “not underestimate the […]
The compliance deadlines that matter before the AI Act takes full effect
This is not an AIAct post. Let’s not forget that before 2 August 2026 (the date that matters to most companies re that Act), there are already many other rules that apply – and have applied for some time – to all kinds of AI systems. For instance, data protection rules (such as the GDPR […]
Has any court actually proven that LLMs always process personal data?
Controversial discussion-starter of the day: has any authority or court actually established that LLMs and other such models *do* involve the processing of personal data when they predict what might be a relevant next word/token/string of characters in a sequence, a next pixel in an image, etc.? I would love to see the reasoning. Not […]
CPDP2024 – EU data strategy panel recording
A must-watch: here is the recording of our fun CPDP2024 panel discussion on the EU data strategy (covering GDPR, DMA, AI Act, fundamental rights, Pay Or OK and much more re data protection). The other panel participants were Patricia Vidal Martinez, Luca Bolognini and Rob van Eijk, and it was moderated by Cecilia Alvarez. Really […]
A practical checklist for vendor and supplier risk management under NIS2
Practical checklist: good practices for vendor/supplier risk management inspired by GDPR, NIS2, Data Governance Act and DORA. The underlying question: what good practices do these EU laws highlight and transform into legal obligations in certain cases, and how can we combine them? This checklist is *not* a comprehensive list of best practices, but it should […]