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On 16 December 2024 the FCA published its much-anticipated Discussion Paper on (i) cryptoasset admissions and disclosures and (ii) the market abuse regime for cryptoassets (DP24/4). This is the first ...
Author(s): Cyrus Pocha, Claire Harrop, Emma Probyn, Christine Simpson, Christopher Bernard, Noah Schmidt, Eden Elder
Our blog series focusses on the European Commission’s Digital Fairness Fitness Check and a potential future Digital Fairness Act which may be on the horizon. In the second part of our series, we took ...
Author(s): Tobias Timmann, Lutz Riede, Oliver Talhoff, Natalie Pettinger Kearney, Matthias Hofer, Nicolai Fornoff, Sophie Misra
On 23 October 2024 the UK government introduced the Data (Use and Access) Bill to Parliament (the DUAB). The DUAB is a wide-ranging and significant reform package with implications for all businesses ...
Author(s): Giles Pratt, Rachael Annear, Tristan Lockwood, Adam Gillert, Hazel Ling
This article was first published on Bloomberg Law on 10 December 2024. Freshfields’ attorneys examine generative AI’s global impactCompanies must understand how regulators approach AI Artificial intel...
Author(s): Beth George, Giles Pratt, Lutz Riede
The Data (Use and Access) Bill (DUAB) proposes wide-ranging and significant reforms to the existing legislative framework around data in the UK. One of the key proposals in the DUAB centres around en...
Author(s): Adam Gillert, Claire Harrop, Cyrus Pocha, Katie Hyewon Sa, Rachael Annear, Tristan Lockwood
On 23 October 2024, the UK government introduced the Data (Use and Access) Bill to Parliament (the DUAB). Our previous blog summarised the changes to the UK’s data protection framework that it will in...
Author(s): Rachael Annear, Joseph Mason, Adam Gillert, Rhea Dennis
As forecasted in our previous blog post, the AI Office published the ‘First Draft General-Purpose AI Code of Practice’ (the draft CoP) on 14 November 2024. The draft CoP specifies the obligations unde...
Author(s): Lutz Riede, Davide Borelli, Verena Kirchmair, Jan Niklas Di Fabio, Federico Cazzaniga, Victor Garcia Lopez, Federica Dominici
Our blog series focusses on the European Commission’s Digital Fairness Fitness Check and a potential future Digital Fairness Act which may be on the horizon. The first part of our series provided a co...
Author(s): Tobias Timmann, Lutz Riede, Natalie Pettinger Kearney, Oliver Talhoff, Matthias Hofer, Nicolai Fornoff