Gloria González Fuster

History of data protection: 2026

Key developments

  • 🇪🇺 European Commission, Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, COM/2026/314 final, 23/06/2026.
  • 🇪🇺 Regulation (EU) 2026/1881 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 July 2026 on a temporary derogation from certain provisions of Directive 2002/58/EC as regards the use of technologies by providers of number-independent interpersonal communications services for the processing of personal and other data for the purpose of combating online child sexual abuse.

Key developments in AI law

  • 🇪🇺 Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 July 2026 amending Regulations (EU) 2024/1689, (EU) 2018/1139 and (EU) 2023/1230 as regards the simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI).

Also this year

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CJEU

EDPB

  • 19/01/2026: Contribution of the EDPB to the European Commission’s evaluation of the Data Protection Law Enforcement Directive (‘LED’) under Article 62 LED.

ECtHR

  • ECHR

Literature

Films

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