Providers of online coaching services take note: The German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) has recently provided clarity on which coaching offerings qualify as “distance learning” and thus, fall under the approval requirement of the German Distance Learning Act (FernUSG).
On 10 February 2026, the Federal Government adopted its official government draft (Regierungsentwurf) for the AI Market Surveillance and Innovation Promotion Act (KI-Marktüberwachungs- und Innovationsförderungs-Gesetz – KI-MIG), setting out Germany’s supervisory architecture, enforcement powers, and penalty regime for AI systems
NIS2, the EU’s second Network and Information Systems Directive, is not going anywhere. While the swathe of organisations newly in scope of the EU’s hallmark cybersecurity directive may have hoped that the EU’s recent announcements on regulatory simplification (including the
Conceptually, you think of IoT devices, but the CRA has a far broader scope of application. In this article we examine one of the tricky nuances – distinguishing between a digital product and SaaS under the CRA.
The EU’s Cyber
Any cloud service provider seeking to offer cloud services to the German public sector will inevitably have to deal with the Supplementary Contractual Conditions for the Procurement of IT Services (Ergänzende Vertragsbedingungen für die Beschaffung von IT-Leistungen – “EVB-IT”). The
The European Commission has just unveiled its proposal for the Digital Networks Act (DNA). The DNA marks a fundamental shift from regulating traditional “electronic communications” to a broader, cloud-integrated ecosystem of “digital networks”.
In a nutshell: The DNA replaces the
The ICO has, this week, published extensive guidance on its expectations on Agentic AI, ICO tech futures: Agentic AI | ICO. The UK data protection regulator’s core message is clear: the future of the success of this technology is
Discussions surrounding the German Distance Learning Protection Act (FernUSG), which has been in effect since 1976, have gained momentum again in recent years in Germany. The reason is the growing popularity of online coaching. While remote coaching has already existed
The Higher Regional Court of Hamburg has issued a ruling that contains important guidelines for the admissibility of AI training and data mining.
In its ruling dated 10 December 2025, the court dismissed the appeal brought by the photographer Robert
The European Space Agency launched the James Webb Space Telescope on Christmas Day 2021 from its facility in French Guiana. A collaboration between NASA, CSA and ESA, the JWST’s launch could not have gone better – a perfect ballet of
