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EU: ENISA report on Digital Identity Standards
Yesterday, on 3 July 2023, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity released its report on the most important standards and standardisation organisations of Digital Identity.
U.S. Secretary of Commerce: EU-US Data Privacy Framework
Yesterday, 3 July 2023, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo stated that the U.S. has fulfilled its commitments for implementing the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. Accordingly, on 30 June, Attorney General M. Garland designated EU/EEA countries as “qualifying states” for the redress mechanism of the Executive Order 14086 on Enhancing Safeguards for the U.S. Signals…
CJEU Advocate General opinions: personal data in criminal cases
The CJEU published the opinions of the Advocates Generals on (i) liability for the damage occurred relating to unlawful data processing, (ii) judicial remedy available to data subject against an independent supervisory authority.
EU: Google’s abusive practices in online adtech
The EU Commission considers that Google breached EU antitrust rules, distorting competition in the advertising technology (adtech), by favouring its own online display ad tech services to the detriment of competing providers of adtech services, advertisers and online publishers.
Google Ad-tech: What do we expect tomorrow?
Yesterday, the WSJ and Bloomberg reported on the EU antitrust legislators’ consideration to break Google’s advertising-technology business up by a formal antitrust complaint against this giant tech. This complaint alleges that the company abuses its position as “one of the largest brokers, suppliers, online auctioneers of digital ads on third-party websites, apps”. Back in January,…
EU court: personal data defined from recipient’s perspective?
Yesterday on 26 April 2023, the Court of Justice published Case T‑557/20 assessing the personal data from the data recipient’s position.
EU strengthens cybersecurity capacities
On 18 April 2023, the Commission adopted a new proposal for the EU Cyber Solidarity Act and amendment to the Cybersecurity Act
EU: Updated rules to guarantee machinery safety
EU Parliament finally approved the machinery regulation recently accepted by the Council in December 2022. These new regulations aim to increase user-safety, improve predictability for the machinery industry, and modernise the existing machinery framework of 2006. They introduce a stricter conformity assessment procedure for machinery, such as those of self-evolving behaviour (e.g., machine learning) of…
EDPB Annual Report 2022
On Monday 17 April, the European Data Protection Board released its Annual Report providing the highlights of the EDPB in last year.
EU: ENISA Cloud Cybersecurity Market Analysis
On Monday 27 March 2023, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity released its analysis report on the cloud cybersecurity market.
EU: Sunrise period of the Unified Patent Court
The Unified Patent Court (UPC) launches the so-called 3-month Sunrise period beginning on 1 March 2023 at 9:00 am CET.