Category Archives: English – posts in English on this blog

Joint Statement on AI-Generated Imagery and the Protection of Privacy by data protection authorities

In the Joint Statement on AI-Generated Imagery and the Protection of Privacy the co-signatories respond to serious concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) systems that generate realistic images and videos depicting identifiable individuals without their knowledge and consent (deepfakes). The statement … Lees verder →

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Anti-money laundering activities by experts (rather than by the amateurs at the banks and the like)

Miles Kellerman in his article The Case for Financial Crime Bounty Hunters proposes to combat money laundering and financing of terrorism by specialised experts. His view is that the existing systems for detecting financial crime are failing. In his article … Lees verder →

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Lighter record-keeping obligations for data protection purposes for ‘small mid-cap companies’

In this press release the ECON, ENVI and LIBE committees of the European Parliament announce lighter GDPR rules for small mid-cap companies: Lighter record-keeping obligations for data protection purposes Under the new law, current SME exemptions from record-keeping obligations under … Lees verder →

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When National Security Becomes a Shield for Evading AI Accountability

In the article When National Security Becomes a Shield for Evading AI Accountability Ashwin Prabu and Marlena Wisniak explain: As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes embedded in state security and surveillance across Europe, the legal safeguards meant to constrain its use … Lees verder →

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Hoepman: “Online age assurance raises thorny questions. (And privacy is not really one of them.”)

In his newest article Jaap-Henk Hoepman discusses the major problems caused by age verification: Roughly speaking there are four problems. First of all, bad approaches to age verification or age estimation, that heavily intrude in our private lives, are already … Lees verder →

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ECHR judgment on the Italian tax authorities’ excessive access to bank account data

The European Court of Human Rights (EHRM) on 8 January 2026 decided in the Ferrieri and Bonassisa case [*] that the excessive access to bank account data by the Italian tax authorities violates Article 8 of the Convention. The abstract: … Lees verder →

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Report on AI adoption in public administrations + the warning of the Dutch Cyber Security Council

According to a publication announced by the Joint Research Centre of the Commission (JRC) the main challenges of implementing artificial intelligence (AI) solutions are trustworthiness and organisational and cultural change. The paper is published here. It is interesting to see … Lees verder →

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The Monitoring Action for Civic Space (MACS) | further deterioration of civic space in the Netherlands

The Netherlands Helsinki Committee prepared the Monitoring Action for Civic Space (MACS) country report on the Netherlands. The Committee announced the report in this article. From the article: The Netherlands Report The MACS country report on the Netherlands includes an … Lees verder →

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AML Package: “the reform was of a massive size, and there are important novelties” [2] | the European anti-money laundering lawyers’ paradise

I have previously written [1] about the significant tightening of the rules for companies required to carry out crime-fighting tasks on behalf of the government under the new European anti-money laundering package (AML Package). The AML Package is much more … Lees verder →

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First Dutch Workshop on AI to Combat Financial Crime

On 6 May is the ‘First Dutch Workshop on AI to Combat Financial Crime‘, announced on the dedicated website dwacfc-2026.com. It’s surprising that this is supposed to be the first AI workshop on this topic. I’ve seen ABN Amro and … Lees verder →

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