Ofcom has opened a formal investigation into X under the Online Safety Act 2023 todecide if it has taken adequate steps to protect people in the UK from illegalcontent. This follows widespread concerns over use of its AI Chatbot Grok to create and shareundressed images of people, which may be considered intimate image abuse orpornography,…
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UK Law ICO publishes updated guidance on international transfers The ICO has updated and enhanced its guidance on international transfers of personal information, with the aim of making it easier for businesses to understand and to comply with the transfer rules under UK GDPR. The updated guidance sets out key requirements, aims to reduce complexity…
As data centres become a critical part of our infrastructure, Peter Dalton, Adil Tirmizi and Sophia Wah review the current risks and regulations around them. Demand for data centres continues to grow globally, driven by increased computing requirements for AI and continued demand for data and connectivity, the trend towards cloud computing and IOT capability….
The ICO has published a Tech Futures report on agentic AI, in which it sets out the ICO’s understanding of the emerging technology, including its potential uses and expected technical developments. The ICO shares its early thoughts about the data protection implications that organisations will have to consider as they explore the deployment of agentic…
Mark Hendry explains how good AI governance is a now cornerstone of cybersecurity AI is already embedded into our day-to-day personal and professional lives. As adoption expands, so do questions about how to govern its use within and across organisations. With the horse having already bolted, will attempts at governance be meaningless, after-the-fact endeavours for…
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UK law Online Safety Act 2023 (Priority Offences) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 made The Online Safety Act 2023 (Priority Offences) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 SI 2025/1352 have been made. They amend the priority offences set out in Schedule 7 to the Online Safety Act 2023, adding offences under section 184 of the OSA 2023 (encouraging or assisting…
UK law UK government publishes progress report on copyright and AI The government has published a progress statement about its work to date on copyright and AI. The statement also explains the steps it is taking to prepare a report on the use of copyright works in the development of AI systems; and an economic…
The Irish parliamentary Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence has published its First Interim Report. The Committee was formed to examine and make recommendations on Ireland’s approach to the development, deployment, regulation, and ethical considerations of AI, and on the means of ensuring that the approach supports economic growth, innovation, public trust, and societal benefit while…
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The European Commission has issued the first draft of the Code of Practice on marking and labelling of AI-generated content which it says is in line with the timeline to finalise the Code in June 2026. Article 50 of the AI Act includes obligations for providers to mark AI-generated or manipulated content in a machine-readable…
UK law ICO updates on action improving cookie compliance across top UK websites The ICO has provided an update on its work to tackle cookie compliance, which it says has brought the vast majority of the UK’s most used websites into compliance with rules on the use of advertising cookies. The ICO focused on three…