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Participants in the conformity assessment process – i.e. actors who guarantee the product’s compliance with EU regulations

Publication date: May 20, 2025

INTRODUCTION

The conformity assessment process is a key element in ensuring the safety, quality and compliance of products with applicable standards and legal regulations – both on the domestic and international markets. Its effectiveness is based on the cooperation of many entities, each of which plays a specific role and bears the assigned responsibility. The participants of this process include manufacturers, their authorized representatives, importers, as well as specialized units – certification, control and research laboratories (Article 4 of the Act of 30 August 2002 on the conformity assessment system (Journal of Laws of 2023, item 215).

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EUROPEAN DATA PROTECTION BOARD OPINION ON AI SYSTEMS

Publication date: May 09, 2025

In recent years, the dynamic development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology has become noticeable, which has significantly influenced various sectors of the digital economy. Currently, AI systems are widely used, among others, in the HR area (automation of recruitment processes), in e-commerce (analysis of consumer preferences), as well as in public administration (management of social benefits). This technological progress is characterized by enormous potential, but at the same time it raises serious legal and ethical challenges, especially in the area of privacy protection.

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HFT – High-Frequency Trading or algorithmic trading from the perspective of legal regulations – EU perspective

Publication date: May 14, 2025

New technologies requires a new approach to trading, where the speed of placing orders and the analysis of emerging trading options, while ensuring risk protection, becomes crucial for the success of trading activities. For this reason, we can currently observe the phenomenon of so-called algorithmic trading on the global market and on regional markets.

What is algorithmic trading?

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Anonymization and Pseudonymization in Clinical Trials

Publication date: April 29, 2025

The protection of personal data in clinical trials is one of the most important elements of ensuring the safety and privacy of participants in these trials. Due to the fact that clinical trials involve the processing of particularly sensitive health data, their conduct requires compliance with strict rules and the use of appropriate technical and organizational measures. Anonymization and pseudonymization is a key method for securing such data, and its proper application is important from both a legal and practical perspective.

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Employee supervision methods that may violate employee rights

Publication date: April 15, 2025

Monitoring employees at work is a common practice in many organizations. The tools used for such monitoring are designed to assess employee performance and time spent on individual tasks. This system has proven useful during the pandemic, when many people switched to remote work and the supervisor’s supervision was significantly reduced. However, employee control must be applied in a manner consistent with legal regulations, especially the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which requires employers to protect employee privacy. There are a number of monitoring methods that can lead to serious violations of these rights if they are not used in accordance with the appropriate rules. Recently, there has been a boom in such methods for monitoring employees, such as keylogging – measuring keyboard keystrokes in a given unit of time, tracking what someone is typing on the keyboard, recording mouse movements, or the number of logins to a given system.

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