From today, 2 August 2026, the EU AI Act becomes enforceable, and yet some of the obligations that dominated every compliance roadmap of the past two years are not the ones that start to bite.
Employee email monitoring can expose companies operating in Italy to heavy GDPR fines, even when it uncovers genuine misconduct.
After years of operating in a regulatory grey zone, online casino gambling is now subject to a formal licensing regime in New Zealand. The Online Casino Gambling Act 2026 (the Act) is now in force, and the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) has opened the first stage of a competitive process to award a strictly limited number of licences.
Privacy class actions in Italy have moved from theory to practice after the Court of Milan admitted the first GDPR representative action — and the international data shows where this leads.
The AI Act transparency obligations finally have their rulebook: on 20 July 2026, the European Commission published the final guidelines on the implementation of Article 50 of the AI Act. Thirteen days before 2 August 2026 when the relevant provisions of the EU AI Act become applicable.
Google gambling advertising on YouTube can now trigger direct liability under the Italian so-called Dignity Decree, after the ECJ ruled that a platform running a revenue‑sharing partnership with its creators loses the hosting safe harbour.
The EDPB web scraping guidelines finally set out how the GDPR applies to the data that trains generative AI — and they raise open questions that could determine whether AI models can still be built in Europe.
Prediction markets in Italy are back at the top of the gaming law agenda, after the Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli (ADM) ordered a fresh wave of blackouts against unlicensed online gambling and put Polymarket.com back on the list. For a vertical that generated record trading volumes worldwide only a few months ago, the message from the Italian regulator could hardly be clearer: without an Italian remote gaming license (i.e. a so-called concession), the door stays shut.
The new EDPB anonymisation guidelines update rules on personal data for the first time in over a decade introducing changes that heavily impact artificial intelligence systems.
The Austrian government has finally put its cards on the table on the Austria online gambling licence regime that will replace the country's decades-old monopoly, publishing a draft amendment to the Glücksspielgesetz (the Austrian Gambling Act) for public consultation.