{
  "id": 18352,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10601",
  "title": "Inferential Capability Does Not Determine Legal Scope",
  "summary": "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",
  "authors": "Nicola Fabiano",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,privacy-surveillance",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "eu",
  "published_at": "2026-08-12T04:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-12T05:10:43.828Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-cscy",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.CY",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18352",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10601",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}