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.

This week’s edition of Information Law weekly highlights includes 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.

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. These highlights focus on key topics including data protection, ePrivacy, cybersecurity, breach of confidence, misuse of private information, and defamation. These highlights also contain an overview of the implications of the 2024 UK General Election for Information Law.

The European Parliament has formally adopted the EU Cyber Solidarity Act, which aims to bolster the EU's ability to detect, prepare for, and respond to cybersecurity threats and incidents. This follows the provisional deal agreed with the Council of the EU in March 2024. The proposal's key objectives include strengthening EU-wide detection and situational awareness of cyber threats, enhancing preparedness and response capabilities for significant cybersecurity incidents, and fostering EU technological sovereignty in cybersecurity. These objectives will be primarily achieved through a pan-European network of National Cyber Hubs and by establishing a Cyber Emergency Mechanism and a European Cybersecurity Incident Review Mechanism. MEPs also adopted a separate law on managed security services, introducing EU cybersecurity certification schemes for outsourced services that support an organisation's cybersecurity risk management. That law had also been informally agreed with the Council in March 2024. It comes in response to the increasing importance of managed security services in preventing and mitigating cybersecurity incidents and seeks to prevent market fragmentation due to varying national certification schemes by establishing a unified EU certification framework. The goal is to enhance trust in managed security services to support the overall cybersecurity posture and ensure a high level of cybersecurity across Member States. Both texts now have to be formally endorsed by the Council of the EU to become law.

This week’s edition of Information Law weekly highlights includes 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.

This week's edition of International Trade weekly highlights includes: the European Commission imposing definitive anti-dumping duties on Chinese adipic acid imports, the Office of the United States Trade Representative announcing preferential duty access for UK whiskey under the Economic Prosperity Deal and the EU ban on Chinese inverters driven by cybersecurity, dependency risks.

EU Law analysis: Reed Smith’s Asélle Ibraimova and Alicja Lysik analyse the Critical Entities Resilience Directive (CER) which entered into force on 16 January 2023.

This week’s edition of Information Law weekly highlights includes 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.

This week’s edition of Information Law weekly highlights includes 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.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes analysis of the Commission’s new ‘Cybersecurity Package’ consisting of a proposed Regulation referred to as ‘Cybersecurity Act 2’ of the ‘Revised EU Cybersecurity Act’. In addition this week, the Commission published the January 2026 infringement package, launched a public consultation to evaluate the Whistleblowing Directive, Accountancy Europe published factsheets that analyse the Omnibus Directive, which amends both the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, the Commission adopted the EU Visa Strategy and recommendation on attracting talent for innovation, adopted the first set of voluntary certification methodologies under the carbon removals and carbon farming Regulation, published a mid-term review of the EU’s Zero Pollution Action Plan, alongside a study examining the societal costs of pollution caused by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), and the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) adopted proposals that mandate transparency and fair remuneration for copyrighted work used by generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

This week’s edition of the Information Law weekly highlights includes 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.

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.