The Italian Data Protection Authority (GPDP) imposed a 50,000 € fine against the municipality of Trento for violating data protection rules in the way it used AI tools in two research projects. Namely, these projects were found to use municipal surveillance cameras, microphones, and social networks with AI techniques.
The GPDP found that these actions lacked legitimate reasoning to justify the processing of such data and that sharing such data with third parties violated citizens’ privacy rights.
