Regulatory Watch — weekly report

Crawled 11 verified sources · 149 items classified · 15 relevant findings · 0 errors.

Next run: Monday 08:00 Europe/Berlin.

This week's top findings

#1 [HIGH] (new) — Commission starts enforcing AI Act rules and new transparency requirements on 2 August

• Deadline: 2026-08-02 — transparency obligations for AI-generated content in force.
• Source: [European Commission — Digital Strategy](https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-starts-enforcing-ai-act-rules-and-new-transparency-requirements-2-august)
• Action: Audit AI-generated ad content and implement disclosures across campaigns, paid social, email and landing pages before the deadline.

#3 [HIGH] — US Supreme Court just blew up EU-US Data Transfers

• Source: [noyb](https://noyb.eu/en/us-supreme-court-just-blew-eu-us-data-transfers)
• Action: Audit US vendors (Meta, Google, ESPs, CDPs, analytics) relying on the DPF adequacy decision; prepare SCC + TIA fallbacks.

#13 [HIGH] — Digital Omnibus: EU DPAs reject many proposed changes to the GDPR

• EDPB/EDPS oppose weakening — status-quo obligations remain firm.
• Source: [noyb](https://noyb.eu/en/digital-omnibus-eu-dpas-reject-many-proposed-changes-gdpr)

#6 [MEDIUM] — ORF.at must correct misleading cookie banner (AT)

• Colour-highlighted Accept button ruled a dark pattern — consent invalid.
• Source: [noyb](https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-success-orfat-must-correct-misleading-cookie-banner)
• Action: Audit banners across AT/DE/NL/BE — Accept and Reject must have equal visual prominence.

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