Dutch court rules Meta must respect persistent user feed choices
A Dutch court ordered Meta to offer a persistent, accessible non-profiled feed under the DSA, reinforcing EU-wide user autonomy and limiting dark patterns in recommender systems.
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Commission Publishes AI Act Incident Reporting Guidance and Template
Article 73 of the EU AI Act establishes mandatory serious incident reporting for high-risk AI, with draft guidance and a template available now and a consultation open until November 7.
EDPB and European Commission release joint guidelines on DMA and GDPR
EDPB and European Commission publish joint DMA–GDPR guidelines, clarifying consent, data use, and interoperability, with a public consultation open until 4 December 2025.
New Commission Guidelines on age assurance and minors’ protections under the DSA
Commission issues non-binding DSA Guidelines setting a benchmark for proportionate, by-design measures to ensure minors’ privacy, safety, and security, including robust age assurance beyond self-declaration.
Ombudswoman opens inquiry into EU Commission’s handling of AI standards
The Ombudswoman is probing the Commission’s oversight of AI harmonised standards to ensure transparency, inclusiveness, and accountability in work by CEN and CENELEC.
EU Commission launches twin strategies to scale trustworthy AI across industry and science
The Commission’s Apply AI and AI in Science strategies mobilize funding, infrastructure, and governance to scale trustworthy AI across EU industry and research under the AI Act framework.
EU Digital Omnibus: Commission Plan for Digital Law Simplification
The EU Digital Omnibus targets technical simplification and coherence across GDPR, ePrivacy, AI Act, and other digital laws without weakening substantive rights or enforcement.
Google drops inter-cloud data transfer fees in Europe under EU Data Act push
Google waives inter-cloud data transfer fees in the EU and UK ahead of the EU Data Act, outpacing AWS and Microsoft and lowering costs for multicloud portability and switching.
General Court upholds Zalando DSA very large online platform designation
General Court upholds the Commission’s DSA designation of Zalando as a very large online platform, endorsing the 83+ million active recipients metric and rejecting legality and proportionality challenges.
EU fines Google €2.95 billion for distorting competition in adtech
EU fines Google €2.95 billion for adtech self-preferencing, orders structural conflict fixes within 60 days, and signals possible divestiture amid parallel US remedies proceedings.