5/19/2025 9:34:17 PM Congress Advances Broad Legislation to Tackle Non-Consensual Imagery By Beth George Janet Kim Sean Quinn Madeline Cimino +1 more... Show less Today, on May 19th, President Trump signed the Take It Down Act into law, starting the one-year clock to May 20, 2026, when covered...
2/12/2025 2:08:46 PM Lights, Cameras, AI Action By Rachael Annear Beth George Natasha Good Giles Pratt Laéna Bouafy +2 more... Show less Energised by our attendance at the recent Tortoise Responsible AI Forum, Paris AI Action Summit and City & Financial AI Regulation...
2/11/2025 4:11:30 PM The Responsible AI Forum 2025: Companies are facing growing regulatory and litigation risks over the use of AI, and not just from the new laws grabbing the headlines By Giles Pratt Freshfields is a Knowledge Partner on the Responsible AI Forum 2025, hosted at Spencer House by Tortoise Media, in partnership with the...
2/5/2025 7:53:27 PM German Election #2: Digital Policies in the 2025 Election Campaign – How Germany’s Political Parties Want Germany to Catch Up on Digitalisation By Alex Schmidtke On 23 February 2025, almost 60 million German voters will elect a new federal parliament in snap elections after the collapse of the...
1/31/2025 5:32:31 PM Polish proposal on CSAM delays decisions on content scanning By Christoph Werkmeister Elena Brandt Max Grewe Negotiations on the EU’s regulation to combat the dissemination of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online have been stalled in the...
1/21/2025 12:33:28 PM Freshfields Fintech: Our Predictions for 2025 By Cyrus Pocha Claire Harrop David Sewell Emma Probyn Rikki Haria Daphne van der Houwen Christine Simpson Eva Schneider Daniel Klingenbrunn Nariné Atamian Tristan Lockwood Noah Schmidt +9 more... Show less As we did in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, we have crowdsourced predictions for the year ahead from the Freshfields global fintech team....
12/13/2024 2:39:10 PM AI Regulation Is Evolving Globally and Businesses Need to Keep Up By Beth George Giles Pratt Lutz Riede This article was first published on Bloomberg Law on 10 December 2024. Freshfields’ attorneys examine generative AI’s global...
12/10/2024 5:02:33 PM The UK’s new approach to international data transfers: making international transfers easier? By Rachael Annear Joseph Mason Adam Gillert Rhea Dennis +1 more... Show less On 23 October 2024, the UK government introduced the Data (Use and Access) Bill to Parliament (the DUAB). Our previous blog summarised...
11/20/2024 11:54:17 AM Your 3-month trial: Consultation on new UK rules for consumer subscriptions By Daniel Wylde Andrew Austin Rikki Haria Morag Elwis Kate Collister +2 more... Show less For the next three months, the UK Government will consult on new rules for consumer subscription contracts, which are due to come into...
10/4/2024 2:19:37 PM Consumers at the core of the new European Commission mandate: paving the way for a new ‘Digital Fairness Act’ By Natalie Pettinger Kearney Jimena Gonzalez Christoph Werkmeister Lutz Riede Mark Egeler +2 more... Show less On 3 October the European Commission published its long-awaited Digital Fairness Fitness Check report (see link here). Based on the...
9/25/2024 4:24:53 PM New era for European compulsory licensing on the horizon? By Victor Garcia Lopez Corin Gittinger On 26 June 2024, just days before the end of the Belgian presidency, the Council of the EU adopted its position on a proposed regulation...
9/16/2024 4:30:20 PM Navigating change – UK election and its impact on tech regulation – key takeaways By Giles Pratt Rachael Annear It was great to welcome so many clients to our offices in London and to be part of a wide-ranging event that explored how businesses...