As of February 2025, the European Union (EU) has introduced or proposed around 21 laws or amendments covering data privacy. The first and the most comprehensive such regulation was approved in 2016 and fully enforced in May 2018. The most recent law regulating data privacy, with the usage of AI, was the EU AI Act, fully enforced since August 2024.
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