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In a resolution of 3 May 2022, the European Parliament proposed an EU Roadmap for AI to 2030. MEPs acknowledged the huge benefits of using AI to address climate change, pandemics and the labour market, but warned about risks to fundamental rights.

On 20 April 2022, the EDPS published the Annual Report for the year 2021. In addition to a summary of the highlights of the work in 2021, the report offers chapters on the EDPS’ supervision and enforcement measures, especially in the area of freedom, security …

In a Joint Opinion, the EDPS and EDPB call on the co-legislators to include more safeguards in the planned Data Act to avoid lowering the protection of the fundamental rights to privacy and to the protection of personal data in practice.

On 28 April 2022, the CJEU ruled that the GDPR does not preclude a consumer protection association from being able to bring legal proceedings, in the absence of a mandate granted to it for that purpose and independently of the infringement of the specific rights of the data subjects, against the person allegedly responsible for an infringement of the laws protecting personal data.

On 12 May 2022, a Eurobarometer survey about the impact of cybercrime on small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) was published. Between 26 November and 17 December 2021, nearly 13,000 interviews with SME representatives in all 27 EU countries were conducted by Ipsos European Public …

On 11 May 2022, the EU Solidarity Platform presented its Common Anti-Trafficking Plan. As a result, the Solidarity Platform aims to address the risks of trafficking in human beings and support potential victims. The Plan has been developed by Diane Schmitt (EU Anti-Trafficking Coordinator) together with EU and national authorities.

Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February more than 5.5 million refugees – 90% of whom are women and children – have fled Ukraine. On 5 May 2022, the European Parliament adopted a resolution in which MEPs strongly condemn the …

On 5 April 2022, the Council of the EU approved the enhanced mandate for the Agency for Fundamental Rights. One of the key novelties is that FRA will be able to undertake own-initiative work on police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters

On 28 April 2022, Europol's Innovation Lab published its first report giving a detailed overview of the criminal use of deepfake technology. The phenomena of deepfakes, the technology behind them, deepfake technology’s impact on crime and on law enforcement, the detection of deepfake, and …

On 6 May 2022, Europol together with the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addictionpublished two new online modules of reports taking a detailed look at the illicit EU markets for cocaine and for methamphetamine. The reports provide broad analyses of these markets following the supply chain from production and trafficking to distribution and use.