European organizations can run into problems when assessing whether artificial intelligence systems unintentionally discriminate based on ethnicity. Such sensitive data use is a violation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, but the European Commission's proposed AI Act includes a provision...

Sweden's data protection authority, the Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten, released "Data Protection in Practice," a privacy operations management survey of more than 800 Swedish data protection officers. Four in 10 respondents said their companies work "continually and systematically with data protectio...

Slovenia's Personal Data Protection Act is now in force. The law, adopted Dec. 15, 2022, includes "transmission of personal data in the public and private sector," regulation of biometrics, "personal data processing for research, archival and statistical purposes," and more. Since the regulation's a...

The U.K. Investigatory Powers Tribunal found MI5 agents “unlawfully retained people's intercepted data,” from 2014-2019, Reuters reports. A presiding judge said the Home Office “failed to make ‘adequate inquiries’" when it approved surveillance warrants from 2016-2019. The surveillance practice was ...

Organizations can use artificial intelligence to make decisions about people for a variety of reasons, such as selecting the best candidates from many job applications. However, AI systems can have discriminatory effects when used for decision making. For example, an AI system could reject applicati...