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Human Rights / Fundamental Rights

Human Rights / Fundamental Rights covers how privacy, data protection, AI, and emerging technologies affect legally protected rights and freedoms. The tag includes privacy, expression, equality, non-discrimination, due process, and human dignity, with particular attention to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, the ECHR, GDPR, EU AI Act, and legal frameworks requiring assessment or mitigation of risks to fundamental rights.

Prohibited AI Practices Under the EU AI Act: When AI Exploits Vulnerability

Prohibited AI Practices Under the EU AI Act: When AI Exploits Vulnerability

When does AI exploitation of vulnerability become unlawful? Learn about the EU AI Act’s ban on exploiting age, disability or social and economic disadvantage in a way likely to cause significant harm.

Prohibited AI Practices Under the EU AI Act: When AI Persuasion Becomes Prohibited Manipulation

Prohibited AI Practices Under the EU AI Act: When AI Persuasion Becomes Prohibited Manipulation

When does AI persuasion become prohibited manipulation? Learn about Article 5(1)(a), subliminal and deceptive techniques, impaired decision-making, and the EU AI Act’s requirement of significant harm.

General-Purpose AI Models Under the EU AI Act: Classification, Obligations, and Systemic Risk

General-Purpose AI Models Under the EU AI Act: Classification, Obligations, and Systemic Risk

The EU AI Act regulates general-purpose AI at the model level. This article explains GPAI classification, provider obligations, open-source accommodations, downstream responsibilities, and the additional requirements for models that present systemic risk.

California’s Constitutional right to privacy

California’s Constitutional right to privacy

California's constitutional right to privacy is one of the broadest in the United States. This article explores its origins, scope, key court decisions, threshold legal tests, limits, comparison with EU privacy law, and practical guidance for analyzing constitutional privacy claims.

What is the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union?

What is the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union?

A concise guide to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights—Europe's bill of rights—and why it transformed privacy law by recognizing data protection as a distinct fundamental right, foreshadowing today's digital rights framework and the GDPR.