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GDPR scoop: EU privacy regulators decided this week that Meta shouldn't be able to require users to accept behavioral ads as a condition of its platforms' terms of service. EDPB is ordering Data Protection Commission Ireland to issue a decision to that effect wsj.com/articles/metas…

#AI Act: In a new set of compromise amendments, the co-rapporteurs outline: ▶️Fundamental rights impact assessment ▶️Obligations for high-risk AI users ▶️Conditions for third parties to become high-risk AI providers euractiv.com/section/artifi…

This morning: we publish analysis of #GDPR enforcement as we near 5 years. Insight 1 --> 75% of Irish GDPR decisions in EU-level cases have been overruled by the European Data Protection Board. EDPB iccl.ie/digital-data/i…

🚨 Does client-side scanning really allows you to detect known illegal content without breaking encryption? In a new IEEE S&P paper, we show that secondary features such as targeted facial recognition could actually be hidden into it. A thread 🧵

Looks like the trilogue is already starting tonight! 😮

Ny offentlig utredning: Förslag på kompletterande svensk reglering till Digital Services Act (DSA) - EUs förordning om digitala förmedlingstjänster, t ex internetleverantörer, onlineplattformar och sociala medier. regeringen.se/rattsliga-doku…

#DMA: 7 companies notified the European Commission that they meet the gatekeeper thresholds: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft & Samsung. But the real point will be which Core Platform Services they reported. No visibility on that yet. Expect some surprises.

As expected, the #SingleResolutionBoard case is appealed before the CJEU: eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/… Get ready for a fundamental ruling that addresses if (and under which circumstances) data can be regarded personal data.

As term gets underway you can find my half-year module in Internet Law and Policy at UCL Laws (almost all #OpenAccess) here. It's usually 20 weeks not 10 weeks but I have an eagerly awaited sabbatical in Term 2. Please share yours if you have one! homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/sylla…

Bravo to Datatilsynet. EDPB has voted to extend the Norwegian ban on Metas behavioural advertising without proper consent to the whole EU, and directed Ireland to implement the ban. Norwegian authority says it’s doubts Meta’s new consent or pay is legal. www-datatilsynet-no.translate.goog/aktuelt/aktuel…

…what. I don’t know what to say about this one. Is this a first? It appears that the ALPHV (BlackCat) ransomware group has…filed an SEC complaint on behalf of one of their victims. Are we entering into a new era of extortion via compliance failure? I have questions…

Judge dismisses most claims in the Sarah Silverman AI copyright case against Meta (with leave to amend except for negligence). storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Well, the AI Act deal is finally done. Here are the prohibitions we ended up with.

🚨 The latest 4-column document on the Media Freedom Act #EMFA, to be discussed in trilogue tomorrow, is in Contexte Médias . Analysis to come in tomorrow's briefing ! contexte.com/medias/pdf/med…

It is official: the EU Data Act was signed into law and published in EURLex. See lnkd.in/e6-MFU98. So proud of you, Malte Beyer.

Curious about the moving parts of the AI Act and their implications? Check out our draft paper, ”Between Regulatory Fixity and Flexibility in the EU AI Act”. lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/portalfiles… By me, Jockum Hildén & Kasia Söderlund Lund University RISAI.SE Future Challenges in the Nordics WASP-HS

CJEU rules the proprietary harmonised standards on, e.g., the AI Act, must be made freely available without charge pursuant to a request to access to documents, as they form part of EU law and consequently always overriding public interest in disclosure. curia.europa.eu/juris/document…

Significant news, after many years of fighting... This morning the European Court of Justice has ruled that IAB Europe is responsible for "TCF" consent spam popups the Internet iccl.ie/digital-data/e…

CJEU: The TC String is personal data and the IAB EU is a joint controller. Congratulations to @johnnyryan.bsky.social and the gang.