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In the eleventh part of our EU AI Act unpacked blog series, we delve into the penalty framework of the EU AI Act (AI Act). Similar to the GDPR and other laws being part of the EU Digital Strategy, the...
Author(s): Christoph Werkmeister, Theresa Ehlen, Lutz Riede, Philipp Roos, John-Markus Maddaloni
As the threat landscape evolves, organizations worldwide face increasing challenges related to ransomware attacks (see our previous blog post on ransom payments). Recently, the German Federal Criminal...
Author(s): Moritz Pellmann, Christoph Werkmeister, Timothy Howard, Cristina Hajek Gross, Felix Mayer, Lina Berezgova
On 12 July 2024, the Artificial Intelligence Act ("AI Act") was published in the Official Journal of the European Union. It will enter into force on 1 August 2024 and will be directly applicable law i...
Author(s): Satya Staes Polet, Boris Dzida, Julia Förster, Sarah Rohmann, Brunhilde Van Den Haute, Hubertus Reinbach, Olga Chislova, Giovanni Gaudio
In the ever-evolving landscape of data regulation, the EU Data Act stands as a pivotal milestone. Beyond its wide-ranging data access provisions, the Data Act introduces a comprehensive framework to t...
Author(s): Gernot Fritz, Estella Dannhausen, Tanja Pfleger
In the tenth part of our EU AI Act unpacked blog series, we take a look at one of the most well-known standards already existing in relation to AI: ISO 42001 on the AI management system. The EU’s Arti...
Author(s): Laura Knoke, Lutz Riede, Christoph Werkmeister, Theresa Ehlen, Philipp Roos, Verena Kirchmair, Yannick Chatard
On 11 June 2024, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) in Hong Kong released an Artificial Intelligence: Model Data Protection Framework for AI (the AI Procurement Framework)...
Author(s): Richard Bird, Harshavardhan Ganesan
While we have already explored different obligations that apply under the EU AI Act (AI Act) in previous posts of our blog series, we will now take a deeper dive regarding the question of which regula...
Author(s): Christoph Werkmeister, Theresa Ehlen, Lutz Riede, Philipp Roos, Victor Garcia Lopez, Vincent Fischer
The amount of fines imposed under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) reached a new high in 2023. A recently leaked proposal for a regulation laying down additional procedural rules relat...
Author(s): Yannick Chatard, Christoph Werkmeister