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Energised by our attendance at the recent Tortoise Responsible AI Forum, Paris AI Action Summit and City & Financial AI Regulation Summit, the international Freshfields AI team looks at five key theme...
Author(s): Rachael Annear, Beth George, Natasha Good, Giles Pratt, Laéna Bouafy
Freshfields is a Knowledge Partner on the Responsible AI Forum 2025, hosted at Spencer House by Tortoise Media, in partnership with the Rothschild Foundation. The Responsible AI Forum sets out an agen...
Author(s): Giles Pratt
In today’s digital landscape, organisations heavily rely on third-party service providers for processing personal data. These service providers, e.g. cloud service or software providers, often engage ...
Author(s): Christoph Werkmeister, Philipp Roos, John-Markus Maddaloni
On 23 February 2025, almost 60 million German voters will elect a new federal parliament in snap elections after the collapse of the governing coalition of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (S...
Author(s): Alex Schmidtke
The first substantive parts of the EU’s AI Act are now binding on businesses in the EU – and beyond. Although most of the new law’s obligations will start to come into effect on 2 August 2026, the fi...
Author(s): Lutz Riede, Christoph Werkmeister, Theresa Ehlen, Mark Egeler, Verena Kirchmair, Sam Kloosterboer, Julia Utzerath
Negotiations on the EU’s regulation to combat the dissemination of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online have been stalled in the Council for some time. Previous drafts proposed mandatory detectio...
Author(s): Christoph Werkmeister, Elena Brandt, Max Grewe
The High Court has rejected a proposed representative action brought by Thomas M. Barwick, Inc (Barwick), on behalf of c.50,000 photographers who have exclusively licensed their copyright works to Get...
Author(s): Dr. Christopher Stothers, Emma Probyn, Christine Simpson, Alexandra Morgan, Phoebe Campbell
Below is a link to our anticipated 2025 Trends in Transnational Litigation, which examines several pivotal developments poised to shape cross-border disputes in the year ahead. We delve into the incre...
Author(s): Timothy Harkness, Amella Viso, Taylor Jachman, Paloma Palmer