On 15 April 2026, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen announced that the EU’s long-anticipated age-verification app is now “technically ready”. Positioned as a “gold standard” to protect minors...

The UK has taken another step in moving online safety compliance beyond content moderation into formal law enforcement reporting. Since 7 April 2026, regulated user-to-user (‘U2U’) services covered by the UK’s Online Safety Act (‘OSA’)...

At a time when many organizations are seeing a rise in strategic, and sometimes even outright abusive, data subject access requests (“DSARs”), the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (“CJEU’s”) 19 March 2026 decision...

The UK government plans to pass a law which will force tech companies that allow users to share content to remove intimate images shared without consent within 48 hours of receiving notification.  The offence of sharing intimate...

The European Commission has launched the AI Act Service Desk, a single information platform bundling a new Compliance Checker, an official AI Act Explorer, a timeline, and an online helpdesk. The aim is to support businesses...

A UK tribunal has issued a sharp reminder that generative AI is a drafting aid and not an authority, after a barrister was referred to the barrister’s regulator, the Bar Standards Board, for allegedly misleading the...