“EDPS Alerts: Europe’s Privacy Principles Threatened by Rapid AI Advancements”
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has warned key planks of the bloc’s data protection and privacy regime are under attack from industry lobbyists and could face a critical reception from lawmakers in the next parliamentary mandate.
Any shift of approach by incoming lawmakers could have implications for the bloc’s high standard of protection for people’s data.
But he particularly highlighted industry lobbying, especially complaints from businesses targeting the GDPR principle of purpose limitation.
Wiewiórowski did not explicitly blame generative AI for driving the “strong attacks” on the GDPR’s purpose limitation principle.
So any AI-driven weakening of EU data protection laws in the near term is likely to have long term consequences for citizens’ human rights.
