Topic: Artificial intelligence

Canada’s proposed artificial intelligence (AI) legislation, the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act, died on the Order Paper earlier this year when Parliament was prorogued. While the future of AI legislation in Canada remains unclear, the federal government remains committed to strengthening Canada’s global position and approach to AI as a leader in the field.

Developing high-performance generative AI systems and other AI systems based on machine learning often requires access to vast amounts of data for training (AI training data) and improving their accuracy and performance, and data scraping is an approach that is taken to generate large enough data sets.

Individuals have the right to receive meaningful information about solely automated decisions with significant effects under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This includes decisions that will impact an individual’s finances or employment.

The EU AI Act’s prohibitions came into effect on 2 February 2025 and carry fines of 7% worldwide annual turnover for non-compliance. The prohibitions at Article 5 and accompanying recitals (particularly recitals 28-44) set out a complex set of provisions.

The EU’s AI Act imposes extensive obligations on the development and use of AI.

The EU AI Act’s obligations begin to apply from 2 February. The first obligations to apply are the prohibitions, which ban the provision or use of AI in some scenarios. Fines are up to 7% of total worldwide annual turnover for non-compliance.

The UK government has issued a new consultation, Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, under which it is proposing to address a tension that exists between:

The final days of 2024 were very eventful in the world of AI and data protection: the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published its Article 64 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) opinion on training AI models using personal data (the EDPB Opinion).

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) was asked by the Irish supervisory authority to issue an Opinion under Article 64(2) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on AI models and processing personal data (the Opinion). The Opinion sets out the EDPB’s answers to the four questions the Irish supervisory authority put to it.

Directive (EU) 2024/2853 on liability for defective products (the Revised Product Liability Directive) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 18 November 2024.