This report features:
- the European Commission’s preparatory work on a potential EU digital services act establishing a general regulatory framework for online platforms,
- the policy recommendations on artificial intelligence made by the Commission’s high-level expert group,
- the state of play of key EU legislative files such as the draft e-Privacy Regulation and the Cybersecurity Act, and
- the decision of the EU’s top court that Gmail is not an electronic communications service.
Finally, the report lists events and key regulatory developments taking place in July 2019.
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