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EHDS: the European Health Data Space between primary use, secondary use and prohibited uses

Jul 4, 2026

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Regulation (EU) 2025/327 establishes the European Health Data Space: the first common European sectoral data space, with staggered application from 26 March 2027. Interoperable health records for care, access bodies for research, and a catalogue of expressly prohibited uses. The essential coordinates of a regulation set to reshape European digital health. With Regulation (EU) 2025/327…

Facial recognition in Italian cities: the moratorium extended to 2027 and the AI Act’s limits

Jul 4, 2026

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After Trento, the Garante scrutinised Rome’s metro and Turin’s “intelligent” cameras. Meanwhile, the Italian moratorium on the use of facial recognition in public places has been extended to 31 December 2027, and the AI Act has set directly applicable prohibitions, from the scraping of facial images to real-time remote biometric identification. The updated map of…

Health digital twins: GDPR, the AI Act and the EHDS put to the test by the patient’s digital twin

Jul 4, 2026

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Digital twins in healthcare promise to simulate disease progression and personalise care. But a patient’s digital twin is, first of all, a large-scale processing of health data: when do synthetic data remain personal data? Who is the controller in a federated architecture? And what happens to the data of the deceased? The reflections that follow…

Neurorights and neural data: the UNESCO Recommendation on the ethics of neurotechnology, the first global standard protecting the mind

Jul 4, 2026

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On 11 November 2025 the UNESCO General Conference adopted the Recommendation on the Ethics of Neurotechnology, the first global normative instrument in the field: definitions of neurotechnology and neural data, mental privacy, a ban on manipulation, and the qualification of neural data as sensitive data. A significant step. But will a soft-law instrument be enough…