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After a long series of delays, the UK's Online Safety Act (OSA) has finally finished its journey through Parliament, and just awaits Royal Assent to become law.
Like Europe's Digital Services Act (DSA), the UK law aims to tackle the challenge of online harms and protect vulnerable groups online, but varies significantly in both its scope of application and range of imposed obligations.
Now in (almost) its final form – who does the Act apply to? When can we expect it to take effect? And what do businesses need to do to make sure they comply?
In our latest Bytesize Legal Update, Fieldfisher's James Russell and Imogen Boffin distill down the key takeaways and outline the next steps for businesses.
The Fieldfisher Silicon Valley team delve into the final decision issued by the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in relation to Snap's data protection impact assessment (DPIA) for its MyAI chatbot. Megan Ward and Hannah El Gazzar discuss how Snap's initial DPIA fell short of the UK GDPR...
Published 09/12/24
It's finally here - the EU's Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act) has now been published in the Official Journal of the European Union and will enter into force on the 1st of August 2024. So what happens now?In this episode, we explore what the timeline for implementation of the Act looks...
Published 07/18/24