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EC Consults on the Use of Public Data in AI

The European Commission Friday consulted academia, researchers and industry about AI data practices, on simplifying rules that apply to data, and on international data flows. The responses will be used to inform the EC's upcoming Data Union Strategy.

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The strategy will help the EU build the high-quality, interoperable and diverse datasets needed for AI, the EC said. The strategy will build on existing work on trusted cross-border data flows, support common data spaces and their links with the AI ecosystem, and ensure trust in data sharing, the EC added.

The data strategy concerns publicly available, not personal, data, the EC said.

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