Inferential Capability Does Not Determine Legal Scope
arXiv:2608.10601v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Two instruments of EU digital law place inference at their centre and mean different things by it. Article 3(1) of the AI Act uses the capability to infer constitutively: it is the central feature separating the regulated category from conventional software. The GDPR never defines inference, yet governs it protectively: the consequences follow from the processing of personal data and from what the inference says about, or does to, a person, whether
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Published: 12 August 2026
Source: arXiv cs.CY
Category: Research
Topics: Regulation · Privacy
Retrieved: 12 August 2026
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