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Jack
Keevill

Associate Director
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Jack is an Associate Director in Global Counsel’s TMT Practice focused on EU politics and policy. Jack has spent a number of years advising clients on policy issues relating to internet regulation. He cut his teeth working the revision of the EU Copyright Directive, as well as other intellectual property policy issues relating to mobile technologies, and competition cases. He has also spent time working as a political group official in the European Parliament’s Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee, where he conducted negotiations on a number of pieces of single market legislation.

At Global Counsel, he is currently helping tech companies navigate the EU’s flagship proposals regulating digital services and online competition, as well as broader questions about how the EU will achieve its ‘Digital Decade’ ambitions. Data, privacy and artificial intelligence are likewise areas of interest.
 

Latest Insights by Jack Keevill

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EU tech policy - has the von der Leyen Commission delivered?

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As the European elections approach, Director Ana Gradinaru is joined by Associate Director Jack Keevill to discuss the progress the von der Leyen Commission has made in passing tech legislation and delivering "Europe Fit for the Digital Age" and how these initiatives are shaping Europe's tech sector and its competitiveness.

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The 2024 elections: where next for the “Techlash”?

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Social media and content-sharing platforms are now an integral part of electoral processes, acting as a conduit for the campaigning of and advertising by parties and candidates, and a forum for public discourse. The 2024 elections present unique challenges arising from the scale and significance of the votes. If tech companies are perceived to have performed poorly during…

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Has the EU legislated away its disinformation woes?

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This week on Top in Tech, Conan D’Arcy is joined by Senior Associate Jack Keevill to discuss the future of disinformation policy. The EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) was created in part to tackle the problem of disinformation – which is now reaching record levels in view of war in Ukraine and the Middle East, and increasing global geopolitical tension. The many…

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What could EU tech policy look like after the European elections?

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This week on Top in Tech, we're completing our mini-series exploring significant elections in the UK, US, and EU and their possible impacts on technology policy and regulation. Conan D'Arcy is joined by Jack Keevill to discuss the tech policy implications of the 2024 EU elections. Will the EU's “techlash” continue with the same momentum after the elections, and what…

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