Category Archives: English – posts in English on this blog

New handbook by world wide AML/CFT policy makers

A group of world wide policy makers of AML/CFT legislation published guidance on data sharing. Read Effective informal operational and strategic information exchange. A practical guide for FIUs (pdf) and International Co-operation on Money Laundering Detection, Investigation, and Prosecution Handbook … Lees verder

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EDRi and other NGOs in an open Letter: The European Commission and Member States must keep AI Act national implementation on track

EDRi announced: Open Letter: The European Commission and Member States must keep AI Act national implementation on track EDRi, along with a broad coalition of civil society organisations, demands urgent action from the European Commission and Member States to ensure … Lees verder

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Statewatch | More profiling and surveillance under new EU anti-money laundering rules (on Privacy First’s consultation response)

Statewatch paid attention to Privacy First’s constribution to a Dutch consultation on the implementation of the new European anti-money laundering legislation (AML Package). Read the article More profiling and surveillance under new EU anti-money laundering rules, with the following introduction: … Lees verder

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BSI publishes a Test Criteria Catalogue for AI Systems in Finance

The German Federal Office for Information Security (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechniek, BSI) published a Test Criteria Catalogue for AI Systems in Finance (pdf). Read their article. BSI’s information on the document is as follows: The catalogue provides practical … Lees verder

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The WP29 letter of 12 December 2016 to the OECD on automatic exchange of information mechanisms for tax purposes

The predecessor of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), WP29 {1} on 12 December 2016 wrote a letter to the OECD {2}, that is still very relevant. In this letter, WP29 emphasises that data protection principles must also be complied … Lees verder

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The latest on FATCA and Citizenship-Based Taxation

This article contains some recent information about FATCA / Citizenship-Based Taxation and about attempts to persuade national governments and the EU to give substance to the fundamental rights to which European citizens are entitled. Article: ‘Reconsidering Citizenship Taxation’, by Tsilly … Lees verder

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Flawed assumptions about human oversight of Human Oversight of Automated Decision-Making | EDPS TechDispatch

The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) today published a document on Human Oversight of Automated Decision-Making, available in html and pdf. Flawed assumptions about human oversight of ADM In the document the EDPS first discusses the incorrect assumptions about human … Lees verder

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The European CEO AI and critical tech declaration

Digital Europe, a network of companies, including Intel, EY and Philips [*], in a declaration urges the EU to reduce the regulatory burden. Data In the executive brief they write: Europe’s data framework has grown increasingly complex, going beyond the … Lees verder

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30 September 2025 | EDRi Privacy Camp 25

On 30 September 2025 European Digital Rights (EDRi) organises the Privacy Camp 25 in collaboration with academic partners [*]. The theme is ‘Resilience and Resistance in Times of Deregulation and Authoritarianism‘. Among the topics are: Strategic litigation as resistance against … Lees verder

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Sophie in ’t Veld: nationalism is the weak spot of the EU

In the article Kings, Jacks and Jokers | How the nationalist lie is robbing Europe of its cards Sophie in ’t Veld explains that the EU is weak because of nationalism: How come a Union that is bigger than the … Lees verder

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