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Content type: Advocacy
In our submission, we argue that the EDPB's opinion must take a firm approach to prevent peoples' rights being undermined by AI. We focus on the following issues in particular: The fundamentally general nature of AI models creates problems for the legitimate interest test;The risks of an overly permissive approach to the legitimate interests test;Web scraping as ‘invisible processing’ and the consequent need for transparency;Innovative technology and people’s fundamental rights;The (in)…
Content type: Examples
Uber has been fined €290 million in the Netherlands for sending European taxi drivers' data to the US without appropriate safeguards in violation of the EU's GDPR. The Dutch data protection authority, which adjudicated a complaint originally filed in France on behalf of more than 170 drivers there, says Uber has since stopped the practice. Uber contests this decision; the appeal is expected to take four years. Earlier in 2024, the authority also fined Uber €10 million for infringing privacy…
Content type: Advocacy
Generative AI models cannot rely on untested technology to uphold people's rightsThe development of generative AI has been dependent on secretive scraping and processing of publicly available data, including personal data. However, AI companies have to date had an unacceptably poor approach towards transparency and have sought to rely on unproven ways to fulfill people's rights, such as to access, rectify, and request deletion of their dataOur view is that the ICO should adopt a stronger…