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Data Sovereignty
AI becomes part of our lives, including areas where sensitive data is handled. An interview with RNDr. Igor Němec, former chairman of ÚOOÚ
We have always tried, especially in the development of information technologies, to primarily understand the issues and define what is truly necessary for development or use, and what is an effort towards unnecessary processing for this or that purpose. In this regard, I do not envy my current colleagues at the Office, but it is necessary to view data protection as a whole, also considering the needs of today's world, which may no longer align with how things were, for example, 10 years ago. Jiří Kaucký (the current chairman of ÚOOÚ) at the June meeting on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Office, what do you see as the biggest challenges and topics today in data protection? Not only from the perspective of data needed for its development, about which I have no illusions and we all somewhat suspect how such data collection has been (and perhaps still is), but mainly from the perspective of the future use of data in our daily lives. AI will become part of our lives, including areas where sensitive data is processed – medicine, personal finance, perhaps social benefits. And if AI is truly sophisticated, will we still consider it as 'automated decision-making,' or already as a decision that is effectively at the human level?