The Future Is Now: The Disruptive Power of AI and Its Legal Ramifications in The Metaverse

AI is perhaps one of the fastest evolving technologies ever devised, with enormous capabilities to entirely reshape the very foundations of a range of businesses, enable significant financial development and forever alter our way of living and interacting with one another. There are high expectations that the metaverse, which relies greatly on AI technologies, will…

CJEU clarifies the interpretation of purpose and storage limitation principles under the GDPR

On 20 October 2022, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) issued its decision in Case C-77/21 Digi Távközlési és Szolgáltató Kft. (“Digi”) v. Nemzeti Adatvédelmi és Információszabadság Hatóság (National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, “NAIH”), relating to the request for a preliminary ruling presented by the Court of Budapest-Capital. Specifically, the…

New EU-US Data Privacy Framework

President Biden signed an Executive Order on “Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities” (“Executive Order”) on 7 October 2022. In conjunction with the regulations issued by the US Attorney General to establish a Data Protection Review Court (“DPRC”), the Executive Order implements into US law the agreement in principle revealed by President Biden…

Why TikTok may be fined £27m by the ICO

The UK’s data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”), has issued a “notice of intent” to Tiktok. This notice is a precursor to imposing a potential £27 million fine, following an investigation conducted by the ICO which found that TikTok may have breached data protection law between May 2018 and July 2020. The maximum…