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.
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On June 10, 2026, Italy's Council of Ministers approved two implementing decrees under Law No. 132/2025, making Italy the first EU Member State to operationalize a comprehensive national AI regulatory framework aligned with the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689).
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The Italian Data Protection Authority (the Garante) issued its first GDPR fine on, among others, the unlawful retention of metadata from employees’ emails and web browsing activities applying in Italy for the first time its highly discussed guidelines of 2024 on the use of metadata in workplace email systems.
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The Italian Privacy Authority, the Garante, released an information note with detailed guidelines on how to defend personal data published online by public and private entities from web scraping as part of the training of artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
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