Computerworld February 12, 2025
The decisions announced by the EU Tuesday were directly caused by member disagreements, but indirectly reflect fears of overregulating AI.
When the EU on Tuesday said it was not, at this time, moving ahead with critical legislation involving privacy and genAI liability issues, it honestly reported that members couldn’t agree. But the reasons why they couldn’t agree get much more complicated.
The EU decisions involved two seemingly unrelated pieces of legislation: One dealing with privacy efforts, often called the cookie law, and the other dealing with AI liability.
The EU decisions are in the annexes to the Commission’s work programme for 2025, in Annex IV, items 29 and 32. For the AI liability section (“on adapting non-contractual civil liability...
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