Can the EU build its own “Section 301” for semiconductors, as President Macron proposed in May 2026? This article argues that only an amended Chips Act 2.0 could fulfill this proposal, through a security-of-supply award criterion in public procurement capped at 15%.

The Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment (FRIA) under the EU AI Act is meant to protect fundamental rights from AI harms, but its practical rollout raises hard questions. This article unpacks FRIA’s core components and its relationship to the GDPR’s Data Protection Impact Assessment, showing how FRIA’s focus on “interferences” — rather than just quantifiable “damages” — gives it a far broader reach, including cases with no personal data at all.

The recording of the conference ‘My Chatbot, My Confidant? Protecting User Privacy in Generative AI Conversations’, held during the CPDP 2026 Conference, is available on YouTube!

Professor Theodore Christakis, Director of the AI Regulation Chair at the University Grenoble Alpes, joins the Masters of Privacy podcast to discuss the privacy of chatbot conversations, government and court access to AI-generated data, cybersecurity risks, and the rapid emergence of AI-powered health assistants in the context of the European Health Data Space.