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EU GDPR enforcement and AI guidance
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Executive Summary
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.
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Key Points
- 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.
Featured Article
The European Data Protection Board adopted the 2026-2027 work programme in Brussels on February 12 to ease GDPR compliance and strengthen cross-border cooperation.
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