Post GDPR: Responsible AI Legislation – Becoming Human: Artificial Intelligence Magazine

Legislation follows innovation like hangovers follow red wine, and the impact can be extensive. In January this year, there were only rumblings of new cryptocurrency legislation in South Korea, and the value of Bitcoin fell by more than 15%, a drop from which it has not recovered. The 2018 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) come as a long overdue update of the 1998 Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR). The updates include conditions like the right to be removed from a given database, and the right to be notified of data sales to third parties. Now we are in the midst of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, and the amount of personal data being collected has become a central matter of public debate.