The first phase of the EU’s Data Act is now officially in place, although member state enforcement of the Act might be spotty. This is because several nations, including Germany, have yet to finalize implementing regulations for the Data Act, a problem these nations will have to fix as the secondary and tertiary compliance dates arrive in August 2026 and August 2027.
The emerging methodology of federated learning can overcome many of the ethical and privacy obstacles preventing patient data from being pooled for analysis, according to research published this week.
