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On 12 July 2024, the Artificial Intelligence Act ("AI Act") was published in the Official Journal of the European Union. It will enter into force on 1 August 2024 and will be directly applicable law i...
Author(s): Satya Staes Polet, Boris Dzida, Julia Förster, Sarah Rohmann, Brunhilde Van Den Haute, Hubertus Reinbach, Olga Chislova, Giovanni Gaudio
In the ever-evolving landscape of data regulation, the EU Data Act stands as a pivotal milestone. Beyond its wide-ranging data access provisions, the Data Act introduces a comprehensive framework to t...
Author(s): Gernot Fritz, Estella Dannhausen, Tanja Pfleger
In the tenth part of our EU AI Act unpacked blog series, we take a look at one of the most well-known standards already existing in relation to AI: ISO 42001 on the AI management system. The EU’s Arti...
Author(s): Laura Knoke, Lutz Riede, Christoph Werkmeister, Theresa Ehlen, Philipp Roos, Verena Kirchmair, Yannick Chatard
On 11 June 2024, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) in Hong Kong released an Artificial Intelligence: Model Data Protection Framework for AI (the AI Procurement Framework)...
Author(s): Richard Bird, Harshavardhan Ganesan
While we have already explored different obligations that apply under the EU AI Act (AI Act) in previous posts of our blog series, we will now take a deeper dive regarding the question of which regula...
Author(s): Christoph Werkmeister, Theresa Ehlen, Lutz Riede, Philipp Roos, Victor Garcia Lopez, Vincent Fischer
The amount of fines imposed under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) reached a new high in 2023. A recently leaked proposal for a regulation laying down additional procedural rules relat...
Author(s): Yannick Chatard, Christoph Werkmeister
In this next instalment of our EU AI Act unpacked blog series we take a closer look at the new rules on deepfakes. In today’s world, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) has introduced both unprece...
Author(s): Gernot Fritz, Theresa Ehlen, Tina Fokter Cuvan
The harmonisation of European financial services law for cryptocurrencies is approaching with great strides, or is it? As per the provisions of the Market in Crypto-Asset Regulation (MiCA), the regula...
Author(s): Janina Heinz, Daphne van der Houwen, Daniel Klingenbrunn, Eva Schneider, Steffie De Backer, Eloi Roche