Data protection law does not define responsibilities for users’ data, but for individuals’ fundamental rights and how they are impacted through the processing of their data.

A fundamental difference that creates a sequence of wrong interpretations of data protection law.

Join FPF CEO @julespolonetsky.bsky.social polonetsky.bsky.social and FPF VP for Global Privacy @gzf.bsky.social for a LinkedIn Live discussion marking 10 years of the adoption of the GDPR.

🗓️ Today, Friday April 17th at 12 noon ET
🔗Sign-up here: linkedin.com/events/74498...

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

This is why tech neutral rules like the GDPR (which, by the way, fully applies to AI agents whenever they touch personal data) are generally a better idea 💡

This is why tech neutral rules like the GDPR (which, by the way, fully applies to AI agents whenever they touch personal data) are generally a better idea 💡

With everything happening in the world today, these are the top 3 news I got on X when I opened it 👀 And I have almost zero interest in American sport (I guess this is also what happens when the algorithm forgets you due to inactivity 🤖)

2026: A Year at the Crossroads for Global Data Protection and Privacy Three forces are reshaping global data protection in 2026: GDPR’s reopening, rapid AI development, and expanding digital regulation amid geopolitics.

2026 is a "perfect storm" for global privacy, says FPF VP of Global Privacy, @gzf.bsky.social. Her latest blog breaks down how three converging forces will shape global data protection and privacy. Read more below. fpf.org/blog/2026-a-...

Oooh, 100% 🤓

Here’s a conundrum for you: fit the two red lines Anthropic didn’t want to forgo into the EU AI Act’s red lines under Article 5.

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First thing: military use, out of scope.
But even as dual use technology: 🦗 🦗 🦗

Should egregious red lines not be spelled out? Or is it an oversight?

Privacy Regulators in 61 Countries Back Enforcement Against AI Deepfakes Regulators remind platforms that creation of non-consensual intimate imagery can constitute a criminal offence in many jurisdictions, reports Ramsha Jahangir.

Privacy regulators from four continents have aligned around a clear position that AI-generated sexualized deepfakes are a data protection violation.

For Grok, already under investigation in multiple jurisdictions, that alignment increases the likelihood of sustained and parallel regulatory action.

Last, the enforcement and supervisory landscape... is a beast. There are countries which have tasked different national authorities w the enforcement of a specific letter of para 1 of Article 5 AI Act❗Article 5 became enforceable in Aug, but the supervisory landscape is still very much blurry. END

The interplay of the prohibitions of the AI Act and the GDPR will need legal certainty - there are countless of GDPR enforcement cases around facial recognition technology in public spaces, for example. The good news is that the EDPB announced, soon, guidelines about the two acts' interplay.

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We also identified some inconsistencies related to "in-house development of AI systems" between the European Commission Guidelines and the text of the AI Act, which might need further clarification.

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This week, we launched a blog series exploring the "Red lines" drawn by the AI Act, a year after they became applicable.

Among our takeaways, we noted that the Act does not prohibit technology per se, but uses or practices of technology that pose unacceptable risk.1🧵

LINK: fpf.org/blog/red-lin...

My magazines this week 🫠

* But since I’m deep into these conversations at my job, at least they remind me the job is kind of relevant? 🤷‍♀️ 🧐

Agreed!

Amazing resource

Cc @gzf.bsky.social

India’s Global AI Pitch Masks A Troubling Reality At Home Without regulatory oversight and guardrails, AI in India will continue to function less as a public good and more as a tool of oppression, writes Tavishi.

Next week’s India AI Impact Summit is framed around “democratizing AI.” But as India expands AI-driven surveillance, predictive policing, and welfare automation, minorities and marginalized communities are bearing the costs, writes Tavishi.

IndiaAI IndiaAI Mission, an initiative by MeitY, is building a robust, inclusive AI ecosystem through democratized compute, high-quality data, talent, R&D, startup support, industry collaboration & ethical AI...

All events of the #AIImpactSummit in New Delhi will be live-streamed throughout next week and you can watch them here: m.youtube.com/@indiaai

India certainly wins at accessibility and inclusiveness. 👀

Is this what a touch of the Global Majority looks like on AI Governance? 🤞

Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna: GDPR changes, AI Act hangover, Russmedia Listen now | The Digital Omnibus in its context, birth defects of the AI Act, South Korea, Russmedia

[EN] @gzf.bsky.social joined us last week to discuss proposed changes to the EU legal framework for #AI and digital services open.substack.com/pub/masterso... #GDPR #AIAct

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

This is how important the Chief Privacy Officer job is. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

The Illusion of AGI, or What Language Models Can Do Without Thought It is not simple stubbornness that LLMs are not “intelligent,” much less a form of “general” intelligence, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

The most important question about AI isn't determining whether the machine thinks — it's whether interacting with it displaces the conditions under which we think, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

Casey - have you come across Joseph Weizenbaum’s Computer Power and Human Reason? He is the creator of the first chatbot, Eliza, at MIT in the 60s. He pulled the plug in horror after seeing the deep paychological impact of talking to the bot on his team 🙃

Casey - have you come across Joseph Weizenbaum’s Computer Power and Human Reason? He is the creator of the first chatbot, Eliza, at MIT in the 60s. He pulled the plug in horror after seeing the deep paychological impact of talking to the bot on his team 🙃

Thanks for the clarification!

La Commission européenne et la SFPIM perquisitionnées suite à une vente de biens immobiliers à l'État belge L'enquête porterait sur des irrégularités constatées dans la vente de bâtiments acquis par la Société fédérale de portefeuille et d'investissement...

The thing about Laura Codruta Kovesi is that she weeds out corruption like no one else I’ve ever seen in my life.

Her EPPO is also behind the Le Pen trial, the EEAS/College of Europe muddy case and now this:

www.lalibre.be/internationa...

Esta americana quere agradecer a Marimar, Maria la Del Barrio, Corazon Salvaje, Cafe con Aroma de Mujer y todas las telenovelas which ella watched en Rumania cuando era una nena y thanks to which ella ahora comprende so much Espanol 💃 Gracias, gracias, gracias ☺️

There seem to be millions of people who believe that if they ask an AI chatbot to "brainstorm" about a topic and then ask it to write a "first draft," it will still be a human-made work if they edit it.

I'm sorry, but it won't.

One of those things, I believe, is how art reflects in us as beholders. How it makes us feel.

Go to your local museum. Enjoy this small (big?) human indulgence.

If you’re in/around Detroit, DIA’s Anishinaabe Art exhibition is still on until April 5. 2/2

I've been thinking a lot lately about being human, about what is unique in the way we absorb the world and we are in the world, which is beyond computability. 1/2

Detroit Institute of Arts, Contemporary Anishinaabe Art exhibition (Norval Morriseau, “Bear, Fish, Bird - Interdependence”)