Automated facial recognition breaches GDPR, says EU digital chief
Margrethe Vestager, the European Commission’s executive vice president for digital affairs, has said that automated facial recognition breaches GDPR as […]
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EU backs away from call for blanket ban on facial recognition tech
New draft of AI paper drops suggestion of five-year moratorium on surveillance tech. In a draft of a paper on […]
EU-US Privacy Shield passes third Commission ‘health check’
The European Commission published its report on the third annual review of the EU-US Privacy Shield. This despite the EU […]
Commission urges member states to allocate resources to DPAs
In July, the European Commission urged European countries to allocate sufficient human, financial and technical resources to national data protection […]
European Commission refers Greece and Spain to Court
The European Commission decided to refer Greece and Spain to the Court of Justice of the EU for failing to […]
EDPB and the EDPS consider the European Commission to be a processor of patient data in the eHealth Digital Service Infrastructure
On July 12, 2019, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) issued a joint […]
Amazon Faces EU Inquiry Over Data From Independent Sellers
European antitrust regulators have opened an investigation into the data that Amazon uses from third-party sellers who rely on the […]
European Commission Releases Factsheet on Artificial Intelligence
On July 4, 2019, the European Commission published a factsheet on artificial intelligence for Europe. In the Factsheet, the European […]
EU Commission publishes report on GDPR application issues
The European Commission has published Multistakeholder Expert Group’s report on eperience of application of the General Data Protection Regulation’s (GDPR). […]
Pilot promised for new EU ethical guidelines for AI
Businesses in Europe exploring the use of artificial intelligence (AI) will be given a chance this summer to pilot the […]
European Commission Issues Updated Q&A on Interplay between the GDPR and the Clinical Trials Regulation
On April 10, 2019, European Commission Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety issued a revised Q&A analyzing the interplay between […]
European Commission Releases Study on GDPR Data Protection Certification Mechanisms
European Commission has published a final report “Data Protection Certification Mechanisms: Study on Articles 42 and 43 of the Regulation […]