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.
Online contracts in Italy concluded with a simple checkbox cannot enforce their most protective clauses, the Italian Supreme Court has just ruled in an order that every foreign company selling into Italy should read.
The EDPB data breach notification template is a genuine step forward for GDPR compliance, yet it raises five open questions — from forensic-level detail to cross-border coordination — that controllers should debate before the public consultation closes on 5 August 2026.
Google AI Overviews liability is an issue that might impact the whole industry, after the Munich Regional Court I held Google directly responsible for the false information its AI Overviews invent, in what is believed to be the first ruling of its kind on AI-generated search answers.
Prediction markets in Europe have moved to the very centre of the gambling law debate, after nine national regulators issued a rare joint statement warning against unlicensed platforms just as the 2026 FIFA World Cup gets underway.
Italy has quietly rewritten how players put money into their online betting accounts, and the new Italy gambling top-up rules now bite with considerable restrictions in case of purchase of gaming vouchers from shops (the so called PVRs).