UK and partners deepen telecoms-security cooperation. Ofcom and peer regulators from the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand agreed to enhance information-sharing and joint work on sector threats, including those linked to emerging technologies. www.ofcom.org.uk
EU starts code of practice on labelling AI-generated content. The European Commission launched expert work toward guidelines and a voluntary code to support transparency obligations for synthetic or manipulated media. Digital Strategy
Regulation
EDPB adopts opinion on the Commission’s draft adequacy decision for Brazil. The step advances a potential adequacy finding that would ease EU–Brazil personal-data flows used in AI development and evaluation, while maintaining GDPR safeguards. European Data Protection Board+1
Events
Tübingen Conference for AI and Law. University of Tübingen, 5–6 November, academic–policy sessions on AI regulation and legal design. Universität Tübingen
World Forum for Democracy - AI and elections. Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 5–7 November, sessions on visual disinformation and election integrity. Portal+1
Council of Europe HELP eLearning course – Children’s Rights in the Digital Environment.
The Council of Europe’s HELP platform launched a new short course (1h15) exploring children’s rights, digital safety, and online-governance challenges. The course includes a module on Family Law and issues around technology use and protection of minors. Council of Europe HELP platform
Academia
Regulatory sandboxes for invasive brain–computer interfaces. Nature Communications perspective argues for carefully designed sandboxes with clear entry criteria, supervision and long-term risk management, relevant to AI-enabled medical devices. Nature
Business
Provenance by design. The Commission’s content-labelling track raises expectations for synthetic-media detection, disclosure workflows and vendor attestations across media and platform supply chains.
Network-facing AI governance. The telecoms statement points to converging expectations on threat modelling, secure development and cross-border incident information-sharing for AI-enabled services.
Adoption of AI
Data-transfer posture. A Brazil adequacy decision, if finalised, would reduce friction for EU–Brazil collaborations, but organisations must document purposes, minimisation and vendor safeguards to remain compliant.
Takeaway
Oversight is shifting from principle to proof. Expect demonstrable provenance controls for content, robust security governance in networked services and clearer routes for compliant data flows.
Sources: Ofcom, European Commission, EDPB, University of Tübingen, Council of Europe, Nature Communications