Stibbeblog | Digital Law

This blogpost explores the evolving legal landscape governing AI in life sciences, with a focus on medical device regulation, data protection and intellectual property.

The European Health Data Space (EHDS) will enter into force on 25 March 2025. The aim of the new European Regulation (EU) 2025/327 on the EHDS is to optimise the exchange of and access to health information within the EU.

The CJEU's recent ruling emphasizes the GDPR's demand for algorithmic transparency in automated decisions, challenging companies to explain their logic. The decision also shows the difficulty of balancing such transparency with trade secret protection.

In 2021, a Belgian hospital fell victim to a ransomware attack that disrupted critical operations and compromised the personal data of 300,000 people. As a result, the Belgian data protection authority imposed a fine of €200,000 three years later.

On 16 January, 2025, the EDPB released its guidelines on pseudonymisation. These guidelines are not yet finalized, as they remain open for public consultation until 28 February. In this blogpost, we highlight the key takeaways.

Following our successful TMT seminar series in 2023, our TMT team is happy to announce five new seminars taking place in 2024. Please find an outline of the seminars in the article below.

The European Commission recently unveiled its vision for the Metaverse and virtual worlds.

In this blogpost, our TMT expert Thibau Duquin elaborates on the AI Act, the rules on generative AI such as ChatGPT, and the next steps.

On 16 march 2023, Advocate General Pikamäe issued his opinion on the scope of data subject rights in the context of algorithmic credit scoring.

More businesses and organisations will have to strengthen their cybersecurity strategies, as the European legislator revised the NIS Directive. NIS 2 will impose stricter cybersecurity obligations on more organisations.