Tech giants working closely on AI compliance, says Data Protection CommissionThe world's leading internet firms are engaging extensively with regulators in the European Union to ensure their artificial-intelligence products do not fall foul of data protection rules, Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has said. AI operators also need to explain that they can ensure individuals' data rights, including the right to erase their data. "There has been extensive engagement" from leading US tech firms including Google, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn and OpenAI, Dale Sunderland, one of the DPC's two commissioners, said. From next months, AI model operators will have to comply with the EU's landmark new AI Act, but they will also have to comply with the EU's key data protection law, the General Data Protection Regulation, which can impose fines of up to 4 per cent of a firm's total global turnover. "The power of national regulators, including us, is quite broad," the DPC's chair and commissioner Des Hogan said.

Source: Irish Independent May 29, 2024 12:28 UTC