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AI's use of personal data highlights legal gap that needs filling, Italian privacy regulator Scorza says

By Luca Bertuzzi ( October 29, 2024, 16:56 GMT | Insight) -- Guido Scorza, a board member of the Italian Data Protection Authority, considers that "legitimate interest" is just the least imperfect legal basis on which AI model providers can rely for processing personal data in the EU. Still, he considers that privacy regulators face significant dilemmas in operationalizing users’ opt-out and enabling users’ rights, underscoring a normative gap that requires legislators' intervention.Using "legitimate interest" as a legal basis for training AI models is a suboptimal solution that raises plenty of regulatory questions about how it could be operationalized, according to Guido Scorza, a board member of the Italian Data Protection Authority....

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