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On April 21, the European Commission published the landmark This bulletin summarizes the European Commissions Proposal and compares it to Canadas current regulatory landscape, including the federal and provincial governments recent efforts to create more responsive laws governing AI. What you need to know The Proposal defines AI systems to include software that is developed with one or more named techniques and which can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, generate content, predictio...

By Justin Hendry on May 14, 2021 9:51AM But intelligence committee gives in principle support. A parliamentary inquiry has recommended additional safeguards be embedded in a bill that paves the way for a landmark reciprocal data access regime between Australian and US authorities. The bipartisan Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) handed down its report [pdf] this week, recommending that the International Production Order...

The Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (International Production Orders) Bill 2020, introduced on 5 March, seeks to address Australia’s evolving technological landscape where data previously held in the country is now stored overseas. Its Explanatory Memorandum states that Australian law enforcement and national security agencies need access to electronic and communications data from foreign communications providers for criminal investigations. Currently, the country has relied on mutua...

By Justin Hendry on May 12, 2021 1:05AM Budget 2021: Govt opens wallet ahead of election. Government agencies have scored funding for a range technology projects, mostly aimed at improving service delivery, in this year’s pandemic recovery-fuelled and pre-election budget. With most IT-related funding contained within the digital economy strategy announced ahead of time, distinctly fewer centrepiece initiatives were to be found on budget night than in...

Margrethe Vestager is the Executive Vice President of the European Commission, responsible for all things digital. She is also very well known for being the most powerful regulator of big tech in the world. In an exclusive interview, she tells us about the global battle for data, Europes place in this battle, data sharing, big tech and more. To watch the full interview with Executive Vice President, Margrethe Vestager, click on the media player above. Is the European Union in the global battle ...

Maximising the user value of statistics: lessons from globalisation and the pandemic Speech by Philip R. Lane, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the European Statistical Forum (virtual) 26 April 2021 Economic and financial statistics play a central role in guiding monetary policy decisions: central banks constitute an important user group for the output of statistical agencies, while also helping to collect the data underpinning many macro-financial statistical series. Events such as...

EU lawmakers from the Greens/European Free Alliance group have called on the European Commission in an open letter to "ensure that the digital transition promotes and does not hamper the green transition", just before the Commission was due to present part of its green taxonomy proposal.

There is plenty of talk at European level of improving health care, with the COVID pandemic adding its own impetus to the trend – but talk will not be enough to secure real advances for European patients. A policy framework with real actionable agendas, concrete detailed targets and timelines, and clear links among all stakeholders […]

The European Union and the United States have concluded negotiations to adjust their agricultural quotas following the UKs withdrawal from the EU.  The agreement is the culmination of two years of negotiations in the WTO framework to divide these EU quotas, from the UK’s, based on recent trade flows. The agreement covers dozens of quotas […]

Find out how MEPs want to shape the EUs rules for non-personal data sharing to boost innovation and the economy while protecting privacy. Data is at the heart of the EUs digital transformation that is influencing all aspects of society and the economy. It is necessary for the development of artificial intelligence, which is one […]