30 Jul, 2024 The missing DORA technical standard on subcontracting is found By Harry Eddis Raza Naeem James Morris Olivia Murphy +1 more... Show less The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) have finalised their much-anticipated technical standard on subcontracting ICT services...
17 Jul, 2024 ESAs finalise second batch of DORA Level 2 rules – but one is missing… By Raza Naeem James Morris Simon Treacy The European Supervisory Authorities have finalised more technical standards under the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act. EU...
04 Jul, 2024 EU institutions explore AI in financial services By Simon Treacy As our mid-year legal outlook shows, the legal impact of AI adoption is not limited to the tech sector. Financial services firms are...
10 Apr, 2024 EU Digital Identity Wallet: redefining digital identification and transactions across the EU By Ceyhun Pehlivan Elena Valín Casilda de Urbina The EU Digital Identity Regulation has recently been adopted. Consequently, the implementation of the new EU Digital Identity Wallet – a...
11 Oct, 2023 Breaking open financial data in the EU By Simon Treacy Need to know:A draft EU law suggests requiring financial firms to open up access to their customers’ dataFirms would have to join schemes...
09 Oct, 2023 How critical is critical? European Supervisory Authorities issue DORA Technical Advice By Simon Treacy Jamie Johnson DORA, the EU’s regime for operational resilience, imposes obligations on technology firms providing critical services to the financial...
29 Sep, 2023 EU shows how daunting DORA is by mapping how tech firms support financial services By Raza Naeem Jimi Piggott-Bader Simon Treacy Survey suggests financial firms use a wide range of ICT providers……but rely on a relatively small group to support their most important...
22 Jun, 2023 EU’s new Data Act is almost here By Ceyhun Pehlivan Elena Valín The European Parliament and the Council are about to reach a political agreement on the Data Act. The ongoing discussions include data...
14 Jun, 2023 EU's AI Act moves to the final stage of adoption By Ceyhun Pehlivan Elena Valín Today, the European Parliament has adopted its position on the AI Act. The EU now comes a step closer to passing the first ever...
06 Jun, 2023 EU and US working on voluntary AI code of conduct By Ceyhun Pehlivan Elena Valín EU and US lawmakers are working together to create a voluntary code of conduct for artificial intelligence (AI). The aim of this code is...
19 May, 2023 EU Data Act: A trade secret exception? By Ceyhun Pehlivan Elena Valín Trade secrets have been one of the most controversial topics of the EU’s Data Act. While trilogue negotiations among the EU’s...
12 May, 2023 EU AI Act: A step closer to the world’s first AI regulation By Ceyhun Pehlivan Elena Valín Yesterday, the Internal Market Committee and the Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament adopted the first ever rules...
06 Oct, 2022 Classification of platform workers: Belgium ahead of the forthcoming European framework By Jennifer Granado Aranzana Whether people working through platforms have to be classified as employees or self-employed is a question that continues to absorb court...
14 Sep, 2020 Fake tales of San Francisco: The EU says that self-regulation can't prevent disinformation By Ben Packer The way social media platforms tackle disinformation has been under intense scrutiny during the COVID-19 pandemic (see this article and...
05 Aug, 2020 Policy papers into practice: Google / Fitbit is a test case for future data-heavy mergers By Verity Egerton-Doyle Another day, another development in antitrust enforcement against Big Tech, as Google's acquisition of fitness tracker Fitbit was...
27 Jul, 2020 How has Big Tech’s response to the COVID-19 “infodemic” impacted online harms proposals in the UK? By Rebecca Dickie The answer is “not really”. On Tuesday 21 July, the UK Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee published their report...