AI Data Collection Use a Key Question for EU Privacy Regulators

The tension between generative AI’s voracious appetite for data and the limitations of EU privacy law on information collection is among the most critical issues for policymakers, one of the bloc’s top privacy officials said.

“The biggest challenge is to get to know and to understand for which purposes which data are collected,” and how it will be transferred between entities, said Wojciech Wiewiórowski, the European Data Protection Supervisor.

He pointed to the concepts of purpose limitation and data minimization—which call for data to be collected only for specific purposes, and only when necessary for those purposes—as crucial to ...