European Parliament buys Claude, a system that can’t accurately tell users who the first president of the European Commission is. 3 April 2025 — In October 2024, the European Parliament selected an AI model to operate a new historical archive where …
The guidelines published by the European Commission on the definition of an artificial intelligence system fail to provide clarity.
9 December 2024 ICCL Enforce responded to the consultation from the European Commission on the application of the definition of AI systems and the prohibitions under the EU AI Act. In our submission we emphasise the need to prohibit two harmful …
Practical steps to rapidly harness Europe’s legal toolkit to confront Tech published today by President von der Leyen’s own CDU Party’s think tank.
8 November 2024 ICCL Enforce responded to the consultation from the European Commission on the Draft Implementing Act establishing the Scientific Panel under the EU AI Act. In our letter in September 2024, we stressed the need to avoid conflicts of …
24 September 2024 ICCL Enforce has written to the European Commission to carefully scrutinise the candidates for the scientific panel to be established under the EU AI Act. AI companies have heavily invested in capturing academia to indirectly influence regulators. …
30 April 2024 ICCL Enforce wrote to the European Commission to keep funding for civil applications and defence applications separate, and not to normalise military research at academic institutions. Open science and international cooperation should be encouraged while funding for …
Six digital challenges facing the next European Commission
11 March 2024 ICCL Enforce along with ally civil society organisations made a joint submission to the European Commission’s call for contributions on competition in generative AI. This follows our previous submission to the European Commission that was specific to …
2 February 2024 Earlier this week, ICCL along with a diverse group of organisations made a submission to European Commission on Microsoft-OpenAI “partnership” merger inquiry. The submission builds on our submission to the UK competition authority.See ICCLs related work on …
Ireland’s new enforcer, Coimisiún na Meán, has published new rules to force digital platforms to stop artificially amplifying hate, hysteria, suicide, self harm, and disinformation
14 December 2023A political agreement between the European Parliament and the Council of the EU on the Product Liability Directive was reached today. The European Commission had proposed the updated Product Liability Directive (PLD) and a new AI Liability Directive …
6 November 2023 In response to a request for documents pertaining to the decision-making behind the proposed CSAM regulation, the European Commission failed to disclose a list of companies who were consulted about the technical feasibility of detecting CSAM without …
25 October 2023The European Commission launched a one-week consultation on 13 October 2023 to gather views on G7 guiding principles on generative AI. These principles will result in a code of conduct, which organisations could commit to. This is not …
ICCL calls on all parties in the Dáil to challenge this amendment when it comes before them for final debate.
ICCL brings new complaint against the European Commission to the EU Ombudsman for 56 month GDPR monitoring data deficit
12 June 2023The European Commission sent a request to European standard-setting bodies on 22 May 2023[1] for technical standards related to the requirements for high-risk artificial intelligence (AI) systems in the AI Act. These standards will be as important as …
ICCL and 34 partners are calling on Ireland to join the European Commission’s infringement proceedings against Hungary for its “anti-LGBTQ+ propaganda law”
Following action by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), the European Commission will start regularly checking the progress of all “large-scale” cases across the EU.
ICCL makes two recommendations to better protect the victims when they are harmed by AI systems: hold companies liable regardless of the intent and fault; and provide clarity on how immaterial harms and societal harms will be addressed.
