Season 5, Episode 7: Understanding the EU's AI Act (with Mikołaj Barczentewicz)

My guest on this week's episode of the podcast isMikołaj Barczentewicz. Mikołaj has appeared on the podcast a number of times -- he's a professor of law at the University of Surrey and holds a PhD in Law from the University of Oxford. He also regularly publishes thoughtful commentary on the EU regulatory landscape on hisSubstack.

In this episode of the podcast, among other topics, we discuss:

• The EU's AI Act, which was passed in July 2024;
• The broad status of AI regulation in the EU;
• The Hamburg DPA's proposal that large language models do not store personal data and whether that view might be adopted broadly;
• The EDPB's updated guidance on the ePrivacy Directive;
• Google's decision to route cookie deprecation in Chrome through consent and whether the CMA is likely to accept that.

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