Acting on one of the priorities laid out in President von der Leyen’s Mission Letter to Commissioner McGrath, the European Commission (EC) has published a communication on an EU toolbox for safe and sustainable e-commerce (the Communication).

The EU’s AI Act imposes extensive obligations on the development and use of AI.

The EU AI Act’s obligations begin to apply from 2 February. The first obligations to apply are the prohibitions, which ban the provision or use of AI in some scenarios. Fines are up to 7% of total worldwide annual turnover for non-compliance.

Ofcom has published its guidance for implementing age assurance measures for regulated service providers. User-to-user (U2U) services and search services take note: a decision not to implement highly effective age assurance measures means that your service may be deemed by Ofcom to be accessible by children.

The UK government has issued a new consultation, Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, under which it is proposing to address a tension that exists between:

The final days of 2024 were very eventful in the world of AI and data protection: the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published its Article 64 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) opinion on training AI models using personal data (the EDPB Opinion).

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) was asked by the Irish supervisory authority to issue an Opinion under Article 64(2) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on AI models and processing personal data (the Opinion). The Opinion sets out the EDPB’s answers to the four questions the Irish supervisory authority put to it.

Directive (EU) 2024/2853 on liability for defective products (the Revised Product Liability Directive) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 18 November 2024.

Does a browser plug-in that suppresses advertisements on websites (a so-called “ad blocker”) by manipulating browser-generated data structures constitute an unauthorised modification of a computer program, and so amount to an infringement of copyright under Germany copyright law?

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), including Generative AI, into company secretarial and governance tasks, such as recording or otherwise assisting with board meeting minutes, has the potential to enhance efficiency and productivity.