SypherPrivacyTalks - September 2024 - Week 38

by Sypher | Published in News - September 16, 2024


Welcome to #SypherPrivacyTalks — Your news and article roundup. Bringing you the top privacy & compliance stories of the week.

Google’s AI model subject to Irish privacy inquiry

euronews.com • 3 min read

🕵️‍♂️ The Irish Data Protection Commission has launched a cross-border statutory investigation into Google, looking into whether the company's AI practices comply with EU data protection rules.
The regulator wants to understand if the tech giant conducted an assessment under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) before processing the personal data of EU and EEA users for the development of its foundational AI model, Pathways Language Model 2 (PaLM2) .… read more


UK's data protection watchdog deepens cooperation with National Crime Agency  

itpro.com • 2 min read

🛡️The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and the National Crime Agency (NCA) are planning to improve the support they give to organisations that have been the subject of cyber attacks.

In a Memorandum of Understanding, the two agencies have set out plans to ensure that victims are signposted to the appropriate agencies and empowered to report cyber crime at the earliest opportunity... read more


Commission services and EDPB will start joint work on guidance on the interplay between DMA and GDPR

digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu  • 1 min read

💡The Commission services responsible for enforcing the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) have agreed to work together to clarify and provide guidance on the interaction between the DMA and the GDPR… read more


EU Data Act, CRA, DSA, AI Act, etc.: Five-minute training videos

vischer.com • 3 min read

🎓 Regulations in the digital space have become so complex, and are growing so fast, that corporate legal departments are constantly having to confront their business and product teams with new requirements. The challenge for many companies is to actually understand which of their specific products, applications and processes are subject to which specific regulations. 

With this in mind, law firm Vischer has produced short training videos for employees in different types of companies to make them aware of the key points of the new regulations... read more


IoT update: Implementing the EU Data Act

lexology.com • 3 min read

📝The deadline for the EU Data Act is fast approaching. By 12 September 2025, all IoT providers/manufacturers will have to implement the Data Act. 
This article by Hogan Lovells outlines the actions that need to be taken to be ready for the Data Act… read more

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