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raidtech October 8, 2025 Featured Posts, Insights

Trust, Innovation and Human Values: John Edwards on Regulating AI Responsibly

At RAID 2025, John Edwards, the UK Information Commissioner, delivered a thoughtful and candid keynote on the intertwined future of privacy, innovation and trust in the age of artificial intelligence. Edwards opened by observing how quickly AI has become embedded…

raidtech June 4, 2025 Insights

Can governments lead the charge on Privacy Enhancing Technologies?

Industry, government, and civil society all have a critical role to play in harnessing the power of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs), experts agreed at the CPDP panel, “Bridging the Gap with PETs: Governments’ Opportunity to Lead on Innovation and Privacy.”…

raidtech October 23, 2024 Insights

Jersey hosts 46th Global Privacy Assembly Annual Conference

RAID’s Director heads to Jersey to meet with data protection and privacy leaders at the 46th Global Privacy Assembly Annual Conference International brands including Apple, Google, Johnson & Johnson, the IAPP, Microsoft, Meta and TikTok as well as the most…

Nick Scott July 31, 2024 Insights, RAID Tech Policy Bytes

Microsoft CPO highlights opportunities and challenges of AI

Whilst AI brings risks and challenges, it also promises to have a transformative positive impact across numerous areas, Julie Brill, Microsoft’s Chief Privacy Officer and Corporate Vice President Global Privacy, Safety, and Regulatory Affairs told delegates at CPDP (Computers, Privacy…

Nick Scott July 9, 2024 Insights, RAID Tech Policy Bytes

Government, regulators and industry rethink data protection at RAID

“Is the way we interpret the GDPR’s inherent concepts adaptable to our digital reality?”, asked Natascha Gerlach, Director of Privacy Policy, Centre for Information Policy Leadership (CIPL) opening a panel on rethinking data protection at RAID Virtual. “As we reflect…

Nick Scott June 24, 2024 Insights

How the fediverse is reshaping social networks

“It’s a federated universe which makes it sound huge and expansive and kind of endless, but the purpose of it is to find your community”, Palak Sheth, Head of Privacy Policy, Instagram and Threads, Meta, explained at a panel she…

Ben Avison May 1, 2024 Insights, Lead Story

RAID 2024 unites legislators and regulators on global tech opportunities and challenges

Senior figures from Europe, Asia, the Americas and Africa came together at RAID Virtual 2024 on 30 April to discuss how to “Innovate, Regulate and Implement with Courage and Caution”, with several speakers highlighting the growing importance of RAID as…

Khushbu Raval February 21, 2024 Insights, RAID Tech Policy Bytes

EU probes TikTok for potential child safety and privacy violations

European Union has launched investigations into TikTok over child protection and privacy concerns on its platform. These investigations are in response to allegations of addictive design, failure to enforce screen time limits, and inadequate age verification systems. The EU’s Digital…

raidtech July 13, 2023 Insights

Can technology be part of the solution to enhance privacy?

Tech companies and governmental organisations exchanged views on the role of technology in privacy at CPDP2023 “Data is powering so much innovation in the computing space. But what’s also clearly front of mind Is the infection point of AI,” Anthony…

raidtech June 14, 2023 Insights

Ensuring children’s privacy online in a fragmented policy landscape

How to best protect children’s privacy online is a huge challenge for policymakers, regulatory authorities, parents and educators, technology companies and children themselves. Jurisdictions have various policies at different stages of development, with little national, regional and international alignment between…