Met dank overgenomen van Europese Commissie (EC), gepubliceerd op vrijdag 30 april 2021.
The Commission welcomes today s political agreement between the European Parliament and the Council on the proposed interim legislation regarding the detection of child sexual abuse online by communications services. This legal adjustment was urgently needed to give certain online communications services such as webmail and messaging services legal certainty in their voluntary measures to detect and report child sexual abuse online and to remove child sexual abuse material, as such services fell under the e-Privacy Directive as of 21 December 2020. The new Regulation will provide guarantees to safeguard privacy and protection of personal data. The voluntary measures play an important role in enabling the identification and rescue of victims and reducing the further dissemination of child sexual abuse material, and contribute to the identification and investigation of offenders as well as the pre
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Following Britain s Brexit from the European Union, the
European Data Protection Board (EDPB) recently published its
opinion about the EU Commission s forthcoming plan to recognize
the United Kingdom as an adequate jurisdiction for data transfers
from the EU. Classifying the UK as GDPR Adequate State may
authorize data transferring from other EU states to the UK.
The EDPB s opinion is generally supportive of the
forthcoming recognition of the UK as an adequate jurisdiction, yet
it indicates several issues which the EU commission should examine
By Neil Hodge2021-04-29T18:27:00+01:00
The European Commission last week unveiled proposals to ensure trust in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) not just for Big Tech, but for all companies that use the technology.
The proposed rules will apply to both the developers and users of AI and will have an extraterritorial reach if the AI system is used in the European Union or affects people located in the single market.
The Commission proposed a risk-based approach in terms of oversight, with four risk levels: unacceptable, high, limited, and minimal.
“Organizations should already be doing a lot of the work envisaged by the new regulation as part of their data protection impact assessments.”
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