The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)’s Schrems II decision[1] clarified strict rules for personal data transfers outside of the European Union. The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) followed up with recommendations[2]
Marcus Evans (UK)
Marcus is a communications, media and technology lawyer based in London. He focuses on data privacy and IT services.
Singapore proposes Governance Framework for Generative AI
On 16 January 2024, Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), in collaboration with the AI Verify Foundation, announced a public consultation on its draft Model AI Governance Framework for Generative AI (Draft GenAI Governance Framework), showing…
International Data Privacy Day: Unpacking recent significant ECJ decisions
A flurry of significant European Court of Justice judgments relating to data protection were published in the final few months of 2023.
In celebration of International Data Privacy Day, in this 1 hour webinar our European data protection specialists will…
The EU AI Act: What obligations will apply to your business?
Political agreement was achieved at the beginning of December in relation to the EU’s AI Act (AIA) – the first major step in the regulation of artificial intelligence.
Although the final texts are not yet available, the key elements are…
The EU’s AI Act: the position is agreed
In the early hours of the morning of Saturday 9 December 2023, the European Parliament (the Parliament) and the Council of the EU (the Council) reached an agreement on the outstanding points on the EU’s Regulation on artificial intelligence (AI…
Artificial Intelligence (Regulation) Bill: UK Private Members’ Bill underscores wide-spread regulatory concerns
A Private Members’ Bill, the Artificial Intelligence (Regulation) Bill (the Bill), has been introduced into House of Lords (the UK’s upper House of the UK Parliament) and is currently at the second Parliamentary stage.
The King’s Speech, which…
President Biden issues sweeping artificial intelligence directives targeting safety, security and trust
On October 30, 2023, after recognizing that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the most consequential technology of our time and anticipating that it will accelerate more technological change in the next five to ten years than witnessed in the past fifty…
Avoiding, Managing And Responding To Cyber Incidents
Informative preparatory papers on state of frontier AI and potential safety risks for UK AI Safety Summit published
On 26 October, the UK prime minister gave a speech on the AI Safety Summit to be hosted in the UK on 1 and 2 November. The summit will bring together representatives from large lab AI companies, world governments and…
European Commission adopts its adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework
On 10 July, the European Commission adopted its adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (the DP Framework). It thereby declared that the United States (the US) ensures an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred…