Legal Watch No. 61 – July 2023. APIs at the heart of personal data sharing. Application programming interfaces, commonly known as "APIs" (from their English name "application programming interface"), are frequently used to facilitate the sharing of information between public and private organizations. This sharing of […]

Legal Watch No. 59 – May 2023. Meta fine: €1.2 billion… and then what? The fine imposed on May 12 by the Irish data protection authority on Meta, Facebook's parent company, is the highest ever imposed by a data protection authority since the GDPR came into effect, at the time […]

Legal Watch No. 58 – April 2023. ChatGPT: What legal framework for new artificial intelligence applications? ChatGPT, Google Bard, Stable Diffusion, and Dall-E are Large Language Models (LLMs), a subcategory of existing language models. Language models are computer programs designed to process […]

Legal Watch No. 57 – March 2023. Smart Cameras and Biometrics – What Will Be the Impact of the Law Relating to the Olympic Games? On March 23, the National Assembly adopted Article 7 of the law on the Olympic Games. The bill, passed in a sparsely attended assembly (73 out of 577 members were present), […]

2020 and Beyond Legal Watch – December 2019. It’s a new year, but also a new decade ahead, with its challenges, constraints, and promises. To better address these issues, let’s take a brief look back at 2019. More than a year after the GDPR came into force, a first assessment of the implementation […]

Data security: to err is (often) human Legal Watch – November 2019. Data security: to err is (often) human. This is the observation of the public authorities responsible for the protection of personal data, meeting in Tirana from October 21 to 24. Several resolutions were adopted within the framework of […]

Facial recognition, artificial intelligence and ethics: the debate is gaining momentum Legal Watch – October 2019. Paying with your face rather than a credit card, using Amazon cameras to fight crime, as the Orlando police in the United States did, managing the movement of athletes and journalists at the Olympic Games in […]

We are sometimes more responsible than we think... or than we want to be Legal Watch – September 2019. This is the case when we install a simple plug-in on our website, even if we do not have access to the data collected through this means. A recent ruling by the Court of Justice of […]

A start to summer marked by record fines and new support measures. Legal Watch – July-August 2019. The start of summer sees a rise in the temperature, but also in the amount of fines for breaches of privacy protection rules. We note in particular the announcement by the ICO, the British supervisory authority, of its intention […]

GDPR One Year Later: What Lessons and What Outlook? Legal Watch – June 2019. On May 25, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation came into force. This new text has brought about numerous changes in business practices, whether in terms of their internal organization or contacts […]