International Report February 2024

International Report - Issue 187

02 February 2024

International Report February 2024

Overview

Contents

PUBLISHER'S COVER NOTE

• The EU GDPR may be open to revision

COMMENT

• Old EU adequacy decisions survive scrutiny

LEAD STORIES

• Generative AI – implications, risks and challenges
  Generative AI dominated the Davos World Economic Forum discussions recently. Frank Madden of IBM provides an update on the management of Generative AI.
• EU retains all existing adequacy decisions
  A sigh of relief for the jurisdictions in question, and welcome news for organisations. Laura Linkomies reports.

NEWS

• Data transfers and progress with Mexico’s EU adequacy
• Digital euro plan aims to provide enhanced consumer privacy

ANALYSIS

• Dubai’s California dreamin’: Whitelists for adequacy needed
• Japan: New interpretations on, and amendments to, existing laws
• The data privacy implications of AI in the US healthcare sector

MANAGEMENT

• Data protection as a corporate social responsibility

NEWS IN BRIEF

• Council of Europe prepares AI Convention
• CNIL fines Amazon France Logistique €32 million for employee data monitoring
• Consent or pay model referred to the EDPB
• EU to create an AI office
• New Jersey’s privacy bill signed into law