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The transparency obligations under Article 50 of the AI Act have applied since 2 August 2026. We outlined the four areas covered by those provisions in an earlier article. In practice, however, the question of disclosure rarely arises in the abstract; it usually concerns a specific use case. A company may have used AI to

Administrative Court of Berlin (VG Berlin), Judgment of 28 May 2026 – VG 42 K 98/26 Any controller that discloses personal data to third parties on the basis of consent must identify the recipients within the consent declaration. The question is how specific this identification must be: is a reference to a category of recipients,

On 2 August 2026, the transparency and labelling obligations under Article 50 of the EU AI Act will enter into force. The obligations apply to providers and deployers of AI systems throughout Europe: chatbot providers, platform operators and medium-sized enterprises that publicly deploy AI-generated content alike. On 20 July 2026, the European Commission published the final

When an employee misappropriates customer data for personal purposes, the question arises: does the company bear liability for this under the GDPR? In March 2026, the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht) of Brandenburg issued a landmark ruling on this point, reaffirming a position of immediate relevance to all companies and processors with access to customer data.

The European Commission has published a draft of guidelines on the classification of high-risk AI systems pursuant to Art. 6 of the AI Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, hereinafter: the AI Act) for public consultation. The guidelines specify the conditions under which an AI system is to be classified as “high-risk” and thus subject to the extensive

The European Union has substantially extended the application deadlines under the AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, hereinafter: “AI Act”). On the basis of a political agreement reached on 7 May 2026 between the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council, several application dates have been deferred and a number of substantive adjustments made. The

Businesses that use terms such as “climatically neutral,” “environmentally friendly,” or “sustainable” in their corporate communications will, as of autumn 2026, be operating within a fundamentally altered legal framework. With Directive (EU) 2024/825 – known in legal practice as the EmpCo Directive – the European legislator has fundamentally reorganised the rules governing environmental advertising claims.

In recent weeks, there has been heated debate over so-called “lifestyle part-time work”.At the heart of this is criticism of employees who reduce their working hours seemingly without a “valid” reason (such as raising children or providing care) in order to have more free time. There are even calls to completely abolish the legal right

Businesses of every size and sector today depend on a wide variety of software solutions – from complex ERP and HR systems to simple collaboration tools, security software, and cloud-based specialist applications. Every such introduction regularly involves the processing of personal data, in particular employee data. In practice, this regularly creates a tension: works councils

What the Fernandes/Ulmen Case Reveals About a Growing Gap in the Law, and What Individuals and Businesses Need to Know Now. I. A Prominent Case With Far-Reaching Implications One of the most sensational revelations in German media law in the spring of 2026 involved actress and television host Collien Fernandes, who levelled serious allegations against