GDPR at Eight: Enforcement challenges, high‑risk AI & Europrivacy seal

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GDPR anniversary, 2025 annual reports and looking ahead

iapp.org • 5 min read

🏛️ Notes from the IAPP Europe: years after the GDPR entered into force, European regulators report record‑high complaints, rising case complexity and intensifying AI‑related oversight, as the EU prepares for a new wave of digital policy from cloud sovereignty to children’s online safety… read more

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• Eight years of GDPR: 40% of the €7.1B in fines annulled or under challenge
• Cyprus commissioner marks eight years of GDPR implementation

European Commission publishes long-awaited guidelines on high-risk AI systems

hoganlovells.com • 8 min read

🤖 The Commission’s long‑delayed draft guidelines on classifying high‑risk AI systems land with sweeping implications for GPAI providers, signalling that many more systems may fall in scope unless documentation clearly excludes high‑risk use cases… read more

Technology transactions across Europe, the Middle East, and the US: Navigating convergence, sovereignty, and digital transformation

morganlewis.com • 9 min read

🌎 Cross‑border technology contracting is rapidly becoming a geopolitical and regulatory balancing act, as Europe’s sovereignty rules, Middle Eastern digital transformation, and US innovation pressures converge in complex cloud, AI, and data‑sharing deals… read more

EDPB approves first EU data protection seal for data transfers

orsingher.com • 2 min read

🛡️ The EDPB has approved Europrivacy as the first EU data protection seal usable for international transfers, marking a major shift in how organisations can demonstrate GDPR‑compliant safeguards beyond the EEA… read more

Meta’s employee mouse tracking program could reportedly violate EU privacy laws

engadget.com • 2 min read

🖱️ Meta’s internal mouse‑ and keystroke‑tracking tool may inadvertently capture EU employees’ emails and chats, raising fresh questions over whether the programme breaches GDPR transparency and legal‑basis requirements… read more

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