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Legal matters: 2024 retrospective and outlook for 2025
The year 2024 was a transformation and adaptation milestone in major business areas, especially those involving emerging technologies and complex regulations. Artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, privacy and data protection, intellectual property, advertising and consumer law, and telecommunications were at the center of important legislative and operational changes.
To ensure safe, ethical and sustainable development, the European Union (“EU”) is implementing new legal frameworks and guidelines aimed at balancing technological innovation with the protection of citizens’ fundamental rights.
In this non-exhaustive publication, we highlight the main trends and regulatory changes that marked 2024 and anticipate some new developments that 2025 will bring and that promise to shape the future of these areas, focusing on the importance of companies adapting to the legal and technological requirements that lie ahead.