Between GDPR, NIS 2, DORA, eIDAS and the OIV regime, every cyber incident can trigger a cascade of notifications. The European Commission is finally proposing to simplify this regulatory maze: a unique opportunity to ease the burden on companies without undermining collective security?
Since the early 2020s, international regulation has taken a new turn: access to certain online services - pornography, social media, e-commerce - is subject to age verification. Zoom in on the case of pornographic websites.
At the heart of the ‘Resilience’ bill, which is meant in particular to transpose the NIS 2 directive, one question has entered the debate: should encryption be sacrificed in the name of public security, or safeguarded to protect cybersecurity for all?
AI agents could challenge several fundamental legal principles around delegated legal capacity, attribution of errors, and auditability of decisions... Foundation models are becoming a commodity, and attention is now focused on the application layer. From Silicon Valley to private laboratories, the goal is no longer just to generate text or images, but to create systems capable of taking action. For decision-makers, these issues are not theoretical; they are already shaping the integration of AI in business today. An Expert Opinion by Adrien Basdevant, lawyer specializing in data and AI issues and co-founder of Entropy, a digital law firm.
"We must put ourselves in a position to seize the convergence of circumstances when they appear." Discover our portrait of Adrien Basdevant #LaRelève (The Next Generation). A performative force seems to drive Adrien Basdevant, partner and founder of Entropy, a law firm specializing in disruptive technologies. Drawing inspiration from figures such as Larry Lessig, Gilles Deleuze, and even Kobe Bryant, he envisions digital law as a creative universe where individual freedoms remain to be transposed.
There is no such thing as good or bad technology… What matters is how we use it. These are the words of Adrien Basdevant in this episode of “Je le jure”. As a specialist in the societal impact of algorithms, he argues that lawyers, when enhanced by technology, have more reason than ever to play a vital role in today’s debates. Why? Quite simply because their mission remains the same: to “preserve the irreducible uniqueness of every individual.
Watch Adrien Basdevant's interview on the set of "Parlons Vrai chez Bourdin" on Sud Radio, discussing a hot current topic: artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on France.
Together with other 8 civil society organisations, Entropy has lodged a formal complaint with the competent regulatory authorities concerning potential violations of Article 26(3) of the Digital Services Act (DSA) by 𝕏 (formerly Twitter). This complaint is jointly submitted by AI Forensics, Centre for Democracy and Technology Europe, Entropy, European Digital Rights (EDRi), Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), Global Witness, Panoptykon Foundation, Stichting Bits of Freedom, and VoxPublic. Based on research and evidence compiled by AI Forensics, and per the right to lodge a complaint under Article 53 of the DSA, we express our deep concern regarding the use by 𝕏 of users’ sensitive personal data for targeted advertisementsIn response, we call on the relevant Digital Services Coordinators and the European Commission to protect individuals and communities from discriminatory or exploitative profiling that undermines their rights by promptly investigating 𝕏’s potential breach of Article 26(3) of the DSA.
The day after the restitution of the États généraux de l'information (General Assembly on Information) and on the occasion of the event "Numérique en commun(s)," around sixty public figures, associations, and companies, both French and international, are calling in an op-ed in *Le Monde* for the opening of social networks and the restoration of choice for users.