The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), Wojciech Wiewiorowski, has published his Final Recommendations on the AI Act.  According to the official press release, “the EDPS considers that individuals affected by the use of AI systems should be provided with the right to lodge a complaint before a competent authority, in case providers and users of AI systems infringe on the AI Act. To this end, the AI Act should explicitly include the competence of the EDPS to receive complaints. More broadly, the EDPS recommends that data protection authorities are designated as national supervisory authorities under the AI Act to cooperate with authorities that have specific expertise in deploying AI systems, to ensure trustworthiness”. Click here to find out more.

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For 2024, the EDPB has selected the topic for its third coordinated enforcement action, which will concern the right of access. Further details will be specified during the rest of 2023, while enforcement actions themselves will start in 2024. 

According to the official press release, “in a coordinated action, the EDPB prioritises a certain topic for data protection authorities (DPAs) to work on at the national level. The results of these national actions are then bundled and analysed, generating deeper insight into the topic and allowing for targeted follow-up on both the national and the EU level. Last year, the EDPB selected the designation and position of data protection officers (DPOs). The report on the outcome of the 2023 coordinated action will be adopted in the coming months”. Click here to find out more.

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Clearview, a company that enables its customers to search images scraped from the internet for facial matches, was issued a fine of £7.5million in May 2022.  At the First Tier Tribunal it was concluded that, although Clearview was engaged in “data processing related to monitoring the behaviour of people in the UK,” the ICO, nevertheless, did not have the jurisdiction to take enforcement action against the company due to their users being primarily law enforcement agencies outside the U.K. Click here to find out more.