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Today, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) handed down its decision in Google v. CNIL, dealing with the remit of the ‘right to be forgotten’ (RTBF). In short, the ECJ held that the operator of a search engine is not required to carry out de-referencing on all domain extensions of its search engine when dealing with a RTBF request. It is required, however, to carry out de-referencing on the versions of its search engine corresponding to all member states and take measures to protect the data subject’s fundamental rights. Though the decision was made under the former Data Protection Directive, it will have implications for data subjects under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as the RTBF was codified by GDPR Article 17.
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On 12 September 2019, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe announced that an Ad hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAHAI) will be set up to consider the feasibility of a legal framework for the development, design and application of Artificial intelligence (AI). On the same day, the United Kingdom’s data protection supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), released the latest in its series of blogs on developing its framework for auditing AI. The blog (here), published on 12 September 2019, focuses on privacy attacks on AI models. With interest in the development of an AI legal framework increasing, what does the ICO consider to be the data security risks associated with AI?
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