Europe's privacy laws are already outdated, warns Nokia boss

Europe's new privacy rules risk becoming outdated less than five months after being put in place, the chairman of Nokia warned today as he urged policymakers to update legislation as more companies invest in artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Speaking at an AI event in Finland, Risto Siilasmaa warned that the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was "largely designed before anyone in Brussels had heard the term machine learning". "We need to regularly update the rules and make sure they are cutting-edge and respond to these new needs," he said. "I was talking to a large number of commissioners and director generals about machine learning last autumn, and I gave them a lesson in...