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EU GDPR enforcement and AI guidance
Coverage from Safeguard Global, Europrivacy Certification, and others
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The Topic

EU privacy authorities are tightening GDPR enforcement coordination while expanding practical guidance for AI, data scraping, and cross-border compliance. At the same time, legal disputes continue over how far the GDPR should reach and how much judicial review applies to supervisory decisions.
First Article: 02/19/26
Latest Article: 12/03/26
Summary
- The EDPB is prioritizing harmonisation, enforcement cooperation, and shared guidance across EU data protection authorities.
- AI-related privacy issues are becoming more operational, especially around generative AI, data scraping, and the GDPR-AI Act interface.
- Supervisory authorities are resisting attempts to narrow the GDPR definition of personal data, preserving broad coverage for pseudonymized and AI-related data uses.
- Cross-border enforcement remains a live legal issue, with judicial oversight of EDPB binding decisions now clarified by the ECJ.
- Compliance expectations are extending into HR systems, where international transfers, DPIAs, vendor review, and breach readiness are increasingly formalized.
- The topic is coherent and structurally stable, with most material reinforcing the same regulatory direction rather than introducing separate subtopics.
History
This topic is new, but as new articles are added to it this area will summarize shifts, changes and expansions of the issues.
