{
  "id": 18422,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10601v1",
  "title": "Inferential Capability Does Not Determine Legal Scope",
  "summary": "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 or not the technology that produced it qualifie",
  "authors": "Nicola Fabiano",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,privacy-surveillance",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "eu",
  "published_at": "2026-08-11T07:39:53.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-12T05:10:43.828Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18422",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10601v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}