ABSTRACT
For Germany as a leading industrial nation, machine-generated data, for example in the environment of Industry 4.0, are of particular importance. However, it is very easy to reference many machine data back to a natural person by linking them with other data, which means that they fall under the General Data Protection Regulation and their processing requires a legal basis according to Art. 6 GDPR. Using Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI), information can often be derived from personal data that constitutes sensitive data within the meaning of Art 9 GDPR – for which Art 9(1) GDPR initially postulates a general ban on processing. Hardly any industrial control system still operates without artificial intelligence (AI), at least in the broad definition of the draft EU AI Regulation (EU AI Regulation-E) …
Lukas, Arnold JF, Machine Data, Personal Data, Sensitive Data and Artificial Intelligence: the Interplay of Privacy Enhancing Technologies with the GDPR (January 29, 2023).
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