EU Researchers Flag 'Uncertainty' Over GDPR/AI Act Interplay
European privacy law changes might be needed to address legal uncertainty related to interplay between Europe’s AI Act and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), said the European Parliamentary Research Service in a report released Wednesday.
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“Shared uncertainty appears to prevail as to how the AI Act's provision on the processing of special categories of personal data for avoiding discrimination should be interpreted,” the report said. “The GDPR, which imposes limits on the processing of special categories of personal data, might prove restrictive in a context dominated by the use of AI in many sectors of the economy, and faced with the mass processing of personal and non-personal data.”
The report concluded, “A reform of the GDPR or further guidelines on its interplay with the AI Act might help address these issues.”