The 25 May 2022 marks the fourth anniversary of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into force. In this newsletter, the Pangea DICL team reflects on key trends across 10 of jurisdictions (Poland, Ireland, Switzerland, Italy, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Austria, Belgium, Germany and Croatia) in particular looking ahead to issues that are coming into focus (cookies, cloud services, video surveillance and services of facial recognition, etc.).
DICL Practice Group – Newsletter 5
It would be impossible to ignore the rise of AI over the past few months – with ChatGPT taking most of the headlines but facing competition from Google’s Bard and from Amazon and Facebook’s own AI offers.
With AI taking the headlines of the day it’s easy to forget about some of the other news stories that were (and may yet be) the next big thing, whether that be the continued evolution of the GDPR, the rise of the Metaverse or the implementation of new laws around digital services.
It’s a challenging time to be a data lawyer – with lots of potential distractions. In this issue we’ve picked up various of these ongoing themes, taking the perspective of different jurisdictions