EU Data & AI Regulation Brief: Issue 1, October 2026
The AI Act's high-risk deadline has moved to December 2027, transparency duties are live, and GDPR enforcement just got sharper. What changed and what governance teams should do about it.
Ronny K Roy · Brussels, Belgium
I help organisations in the EU and UK build data governance that regulators accept and business teams use. Each month I publish the EU Data & AI Regulation Brief: what changed, why it matters, and what to do next.
12+
years in data governance and compliance
Benelux & UK
data governance lead at Cognizant
Banking to consulting
BCBS 239 at Wells Fargo, GDPR across EU clients
The AI Act's high-risk deadline has moved to December 2027, transparency duties are live, and GDPR enforcement just got sharper. What changed and what governance teams should do about it.
Turning GDPR, BCBS 239 and now the EU AI Act into operating models, controls and evidence that hold up under scrutiny.
Data ownership, metadata, lineage and data quality, built so that the same foundations serve compliance, analytics and AI.
Collibra, Microsoft Purview and Informatica implementations designed around how people actually work, not only how the tool is licensed.
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