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"After the entry into force of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act in August 2024, an open question is its interplay with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The AI Act aims to promote human-centric, trustworthy and sustainable AI, while respecting individuals' fundamental rights and freedoms, including their right to the protection of personal data. One of the AI Act's main objectives is to mitigate discrimination and bias in the development, deployment and use of 'high-risk AI systems'. To achieve this, the act allows 'special categories of personal data' to be processed, based on a set of conditions (e.g. privacy-preserving measures) designed to identify and to avoid discrimination that might occur when using such new technology. The GDPR, however, seems more restrictive in that respect. The legal uncertainty this creates might need to be addressed through legislative reform or further guidance."

europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/e

www.europarl.europa.euAlgorithmic discrimination under the AI Act and the GDPR | Think Tank | European ParliamentAlgorithmic discrimination under the AI Act and the GDPR
#EU#AI#AIAct

"A federal judge has ordered Trump administration officials involved in Elon Musk’s “opaque” Department of Government Efficiency to testify under oath in one of the sprawling lawsuits seeking to block DOGE’s access to sensitive government databases.

U.S. District Judge John Bates agreed Thursday that “very limited” efforts to question officials connected to DOGE would help clarify what exactly the group is doing and whether it poses the risks to sensitive data that government employees fear. Bates’ order will allow unions and liberal groups suing to question four officials: one from DOGE’s White House headquarters and one each from the Labor Department, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

While the bureaucracy-slashing DOGE effort has sparked more than a dozen lawsuits, the order from Bates is the first that would force people involved in the project to answer questions from lawyers outside the government.

Those depositions will be capped at eight hours in total, ruled Bates, a Washington-based appointee of President George W. Bush."

politico.com/news/2025/02/27/d

#USA#Trump#Musk

Facebook under European regulatory spotlight amid US tech backlash.

A key Irish regulator is set to consider whether Facebook is breaching European consumers' data protection rules, just as US tech giants sharpen their resistance to EU regulation, Euronews can reveal.

Some 5,000 Facebook users have asked the company to stop processing their personal data to target them with direct marketing.

mediafaro.org/article/20250227

Facebook under European regulatory spotlight amid US tech backlash
euronews · Facebook under European regulatory spotlight amid US tech backlashSome 5,000 Facebook users have asked the company to stop processing their personal data to target them with direct marketing.
#EU#Facebook#Meta

"Nowadays, more and more banks set their interest rates automatically, and without any human intervention. But even the smallest inaccuracies can cost consumers thousands of additional euros. While EU law allows the use of such an automatic system in certain circumstances, companies must follow strict rules to protect people’s fundamental right to privacy. Banks, for example, would need to provide their customers with “meaningful information about the logic involved” in calculating their personal interest rate. But many banks don’t seem to care. Contrary to EU law, Swedbank (one of the largest banks in Sweden) rejected a Swedish citizen’s access request by claiming that the calculation was a “trade secret”. noyb has now filed a complaint with the Swedish Data Protection Authority."

noyb.eu/en/swedbank-refuses-tr

noyb.euSwedbank refuses transparency in automatic interest calculationSwedish bank Swedbank falsely claims that the logic behind the automatic interest rate calculation is a "trade secret"
#EU#Sweden#Swedbank

Staat mal wieder scharf auf Backdoor! Die französische Regierung plant eine Änderung des Narcotrafic-Gesetzes: Verschlüsselte Messengerdienste wie z. B. Signal + WhatsApp sollen verpflichtet werden eine Backdoor einzubauen. Das würde die Sicherheit + Privatsphäre ALLER Nutzenden gefährden!

@Tutanota tuta.com/blog/france-surveilla

TutaFrance is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. We must stop them now! | TutaAn amendment to the “Nacrotrafic” law is moving to the French National Assembly. Remind your legislators that a backdoor for the good guys only is not possible.