Weekly highlights

Weekly highlights

This subtopic is an archive of weekly highlights from Lexis+® UK Information Law.

Information law weekly highlights

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EDPS issues Opinion on proposed EU return system for third-country nationals

The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has published an Opinion on the European Commission’s Proposal for a Regulation establishing a common system for the return of third-country nationals staying illegally in the European Union. The EDPS, led by Wojciech Wiewiórowski, was appointed by joint decision of the European Parliament and the Council to provide independent oversight of personal data processing by EU institutions and bodies.

ILPA analysis examines UK Government's passport-free border control proposals

The Immigration Law Practitioners' Association (ILPA) has published an analysis of the UK Government's May 2025 White Paper proposal to implement passport-free entry using facial recognition technology at UK borders. The analysis scrutinises the legal implications for state sovereignty and passport authority, while also highlighting ongoing technical difficulties with the UK's digital immigration system. The proposed pilot for passport-free eGates, scheduled for late 2025, would use facial recognition and Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) data. Elspeth Guild and Catriona Barclay warn that this could undermine international relations, state sovereignty and data protection, recommending these issues be addressed before implementation.

Information Law weekly highlights—29 May 2025

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Information Law weekly highlights: a hand-picked summary of news analysis, updates and new content related to laws governing the use and dissemination of information and personal data. Each week these highlights focus on developments in key topics such as data protection, ePrivacy, cybersecurity, breach of confidence, misuse of private information, and defamation.

DPC approves Meta's revised AI training plans following EU GDPR compliance improvements

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has engaged extensively with technology companies regarding the use of personal data to train large language models in the EU/EEA, with a particular focus on Meta’s proposed projects. The DPC initially identified several issues with Meta’s plans to utilise public content from Facebook and Instagram for AI training, and after communicating concerns, Meta temporarily paused its project. In pursuit of regulatory harmonisation, the DPC also consulted its European Data Protection Board (EDPB) peers to obtain a formal Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation )(GDPR)) Opinion on key aspects of AI model training and deployment, which provided supervisory authorities with general compliance criteria.

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