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GDPR Applies to AI Training Data: EU Ends Web Scraping Free Pass for Every Lab
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Fusion42 · 10 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
The EU's Data Protection Board issued binding guidelines (03/2026) establishing that GDPR applies fully to web scraping for AI training, eliminating the assumption that public data is freely available. Developers must now conduct per-deployment legitimate interest assessments, apply data minimisation filters before scraping begins, and meet strict anonymisation standards that most LLMs cannot currently satisfy.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of AI Frontier Models and Generative AI.
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If you're training a model on scraped web data, you now need a legal opinion per deployment and proof you filtered personal data before collection—not after. The free pass on public data just expired.
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