This month’s update from Marija Nonkovic’s on key tech law developments for the month ahead:
| Date | Description | Further Information |
| 6 March 2025 | Deadline for DBT’s consultation on draft Strategic Steer to the CMA | Link to consultation here |
| 14 March 2025 | Deadline for ICO consultation on draft guidance on storage and access technologies | Link to consultation hereLik to draft guidance here |
| 31 March 2025 | New obligations under PCI DSS v4.0. start to apply | Link to PCI DSS v4.0.1 requirements here |
In addition, here are some developments from February 2025 (and a few extra ones from January 2025!) which weren’t captured last month’s update.
| Date | Description | Further Information |
| 29 January 2025 | European Commission announced new initiative ‘Competitiveness Compass’ | Link to Press Release hereLink to Announcement hereLink to Factsheet here |
| 31 January 2025 | Government published its response to the Cyber Governance Code of Practice | Link to Press Release hereLink to Response here |
| 31 January 2025 | DSIT published updated AI Code of Practice | Link to Code here |
| 31 January 2025 | CNIL published final guidance on TIAs | Link to Guidance here |
| 4 February 2025 | DSIT launched Expression of Interest for new members to join DSIT’s Quantum Strategic Advisory Board | Link to EOI hereLink to Press Release here |
| 4 February | European Commission published draft guidelines on prohibited AI practices (Article 5) under the EU AI Act | Link to Press Release hereLink to Guidelines here |
| 4 February 2025 | NSCC (and cyber agencies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the US) published new guidelines to secure edge devices from increasing security threat | Link to Press Release hereLink to Guidelines here |
| 4 February 2025 | AI Office published repository of best practices on AI literary | Link to Guidance here |
| 4 February 2025 | Cyber Solidarity Act came into force | Link CSA text here |
| 5 February 2025 | ICO published new direct marketing advice generator tool | Link to Press Release hereLink to tool here |
| 6 February 2025 | European Commission published draft guidelines on AI system definition under EU AI Act | Link to draft Guidance here |
| 7 February 2025 | Public Authority Algorithmic and Automated Decision-Making Systems Bill had its third reading in the House of Lords | Link to draft Bill here |
| 7 February 2025 | CNIL published new guidelines on training AI | Link to Guidelines here |
| 7 February 2025 | OECD published report on future governance of AI | Link to Report here |
| 9 February 2025 | OECD published paper on intellectual property issues in AI trained on scraped data | Link to Paper here |
| 10 February 2025 | DSIT launched Expression of Interest to support AI Growth Zones | Link to EOI here |
| 10 February 2025 | Government published AI Playbook for public sector | Link AI Playbook here |
| 10 February 2025 | ICO published its updated response to the Data (Use and Access) Bill | Link to Response here |
| 11 February 2025 | European Commission adopted its 2025 Work Programme | Link to Work Programme here |
| 12 February 2025 | Second reading of Data (Use and Access) Bill | Link to Parliament page here |
| 13 February 2025 | Department for Business and Trade issued a consultation on a draft revised version of the government’s Strategic Steer to the CMA | Link to Consultation here |
| 19 February 2025 | ICO published Tech Horizons Report 2025 | Link to Report here |
| 24 February 2025 | European Commission launched new cybersecurity blueprint to enhance EU cyber crisis coordination | Link to Blueprint hereLink to Press Release here |
| 25 February 2025 | Deadline for Government consultation on copyright and AI in creative industries | Link to Consultation here |
| 28 February 2025 | Deadline for EDPB consultation on pseudonymisation guidelines | Link to Consultation here |
