IAPP Country Leader, France, and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Partner Yann Padova and Associate Sebastian Thess wrote about the arguments for reforming the EU General Data Protection Regulation to better adapt to emerging technologies and recommendations on how to…
BBC News reports U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to announce Friday a new, compulsory U.K.-wide digital ID framework. Starmer believes the required identification will help mitigate illegal working and modernize the states. The details of the scheme will…
The U.K. National Crime Agency announced an individual was arrested for allegedly violating the Computer Misuse Act in connection with a ransomware attack on Collins Aerospace, BBC News reports. The security incident caused several airlines to have days-long delays after…
OpenAI and Databricks agreed to a multiyear, USD100 million deal to offer AI services to large enterprises to help their efforts to build AI agents with their own data, The Wall Street Journal reports. The agreement makes OpenAI’s GPT-5 model…
A malware called Brickstorm is targeting intellectual property from security-as-a-service firms to find zero-day vulnerabilities and future victims, CyberScoop reports. The effort, discovered by Mandiant and the Google Threat Intelligence Group, has similar hallmarks to Chinese hacking groups, but researchers…
The Netherlands’ data protection authority, Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, is urging LinkedIn users to consider opting out of data sharing by 3 Nov. to prevent their information from being used for AI training, NL Times reports. AP Vice-Chair Monique Verdier warned once…
Apple asked the European Commission to either repeal or reduce the scope the EU Digital Markets Act, claiming the regulation makes it difficult to conduct business in the EU, The Wall Street Journal reports. If the DMA is not repealed,…
A new report from a former Meta whistleblower alleges the company’s safeguards to protect children on its platform are inadequate, the Guardian reports. The company said the report misrepresents its efforts to protect children, give parents the tools to block…
The AI regulatory space is increasingly becoming fragmented around the world. At the IAPP AI Governance Global North America 2025, stakeholders reflected on the progress to date on building AI governance frameworks and opined on how the global governance conversation…
Stakeholders in the AI copyright debate differ on who should be responsible for infringing content created by the technology, with the legal record far from settled in the U.S. IAPP Staff Writer Caitlin Andrews reports on copyright conversations from AIGG.Full…