On 19 November 2025, the European Commission published two legislative proposals – the Digital Omnibus on AI Regulation Proposal and the broader Digital Omnibus Regulation Proposal (“Proposals”) – as part of a wider initiative to simplify and streamline the EU’s digital regulatory framework. Together, the Proposals introduce targeted but significant amendments across a broad range of instruments, including the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), the GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679), the ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC), the NIS2 Directive ((EU) 2022/2555), and the EU Data Act (Regulation (EU) 2023/2854).Continue Reading EU Digital Omnibus: What the Proposed Reforms Mean for Pharma and MedTech
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UK ICO Announces Cookies Compliance Review of the UK’s Top 1,000 Websites
By James Castro-Edwards on
Posted in Data protection
The ICO recently announced its plan to bring the UK’s top 1,000 websites into compliance with applicable data protection law, in relation to their use of cookies. At the time of the announcement, the ICO had already checked 200 websites, and communicated its concerns to 134 of their operators. This suggests a prevalence of non-compliant…