Much of the current conversation about generative AI centres on what these models output and what users see and engage with. But the less visible side of machine learning echoes an older and unresolved debate that deserves renewed attention. From credit scoring to software that scans our emotions, to old standbys like facial recognition, these…
The Information Commission (ICO) has published a call for evidence on how data protection law applies to agentic AI. The ICO says it wants to support responsible innovation and give organisations greater regulatory clarity. The call focuses on issues that are new, or that arise in different ways, when AI systems act autonomously. Responses will…
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The Consumer Protection Cooperation (CPC) Network has launched action related to nine video games companies, with the aim to strengthen protection of gamers’ rights. The CPC Network is made up of national consumer law regulators. It is coordinated by the European Commission and acts against consumer law breaches that affect many people and involve more…
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The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Google €403 million, following an inquiry it launched in February 2020 in its capacity as the Lead Supervisory Authority for Google. The inquiry followed complaints from several European consumer rights organisations regarding Google’s processing of location data related to certain services and products. The inquiry concerned Google’s…
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Andy Burnham and Ursula Van der Leyen give speeches in New York on AI and child online safety The Prime Minister and European Commission President have given speeches in New York. Andy Burnham presented AI and disinformation as increasingly interconnected national-security and democratic-resilience challenges, describing how bots, fake websites, falsified media and other techniques spread…
The European Commission has adopted the EU KIDS Act with the aim of improving online safety for children in the EU. The proposal bans social media platforms from accessing children under the age of 13 and sets 15 as the EU-wide minimum age for minors to open an account of their own. Under the proposals,…
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The Advocate General has recently issued an opinion in Case C-317/25 about whether a company can send marketing to people who agreed that their personal data could be used by another company’s partners, where those partners were not actually named. In 2021, Groupe Canal+ sent electronic marketing to around 3.9 million people. Their details had…
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The GDPR was enacted in 2016 and became applicable in 2018. As it approaches a decade since its application, it has become one of the defining instruments of technology law worldwide. Yet the questions facing data protection have continued to evolve, perhaps most notably with the rise of AI. In this episode, host Mauricio Figueroa…
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The European Parliament has issued a resolution which calls for stronger EU-wide measures to protect children and young people online, including restrictions on addictive design, greater algorithmic transparency, privacy-preserving age assurance and tighter controls around AI companions and synthetic intimate content. MEPs called for an “integrated European strategy” under which responsibility for online safety would…
UK law Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal strikes off lawyer for use of AI (among other things) In SRA Ltd v Abhishek Kumar (Case 12884), the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal ordered Kumar to be struck off the register of Registered Foreign Lawyers, following findings relating both to a criminal conviction for knowingly employing a person disqualified from employment…