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This paper introduces the strategic approach to regulating personal data and the normative foundations of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation ('GDPR'). We explain the genesis of the GDPR, which is best understood as an…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Chris Jay Hoofnagle , Bart van der Sloot , Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius

Data minimization is a legal principle requiring personal data processing to be limited to what is necessary for a specified purpose. Operationalizing this principle for recommender systems, which rely on extensive personal data, remains a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Jens Leysen , Marco Favier , Bart Goethals

Training machine learning models based on neural networks requires large datasets, which may contain sensitive information. The models, however, should not expose private information from these datasets. Differentially private SGD [DP-SGD]…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Francisco Aguilera-Martínez , Fernando Berzal

Privacy protection laws, such as the GDPR, grant individuals the right to request the forgetting of their personal data not only from databases but also from machine learning (ML) models trained on them. Machine unlearning has emerged as a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Najeeb Jebreel , David Sánchez

Machine learning algorithms use error function minimization to fit a large set of parameters in a preexisting model. However, error minimization eventually leads to a memorization of the training dataset, losing the ability to generalize to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Fernando Martin-Maroto , Gonzalo G. de Polavieja

This article examines the principles outlined in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the context of social network data. We provide both a practical guide to GDPR-compliant social network data processing, covering aspects such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Andreas Kotsios , Matteo Magnani , Luca Rossi , Irina Shklovski , Davide Vega

Machine learning models, especially deep models, may unintentionally remember information about their training data. Malicious attackers can thus pilfer some property about training data by attacking the model via membership inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Kongyang Chen , Yao Huang , Yiwen Wang

Data protection regulations like the GDPR or the California Consumer Privacy Act give users more control over the data that is collected about them. Deleting the collected data is often insufficient to guarantee data privacy since it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Alexander Becker , Thomas Liebig

The enactment of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018 forced any organization that collects and/or processes EU-based personal data to comply with stringent privacy regulations. Software organizations have struggled to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Ze Shi Li , Colin Werner , Neil Ernst , Daniela Damian

With the extensive use of machine learning technologies, data providers encounter increasing privacy risks. Recent legislation, such as GDPR, obligates organizations to remove requested data and its influence from a trained model. Machine…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Hengzhu Liu , Tianqing Zhu , Lefeng Zhang , Ping Xiong

Ensuring data quality in machine learning (ML) systems has become increasingly complex as regulatory requirements expand. In the European Union (EU), frameworks such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Artificial…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yichun Wang , Kristina Irion , Paul Groth , Hazar Harmouch

As large-scale AI systems proliferate, ensuring compliance with data privacy laws such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has become critical. This paper introduces Brain Surgery, a transformative methodology for making every…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Michele Laurelli

Data-driven applications and services have been increasingly deployed in all aspects of life including healthcare and medical services in which a huge amount of personal data is collected, aggregated, and processed in a centralised server…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Naila Azam , Anna Lito Michala , Shuja Ansari , Nguyen Truong

In this short paper, we consider the roles of HCI in enabling the better governance of consequential machine learning systems using the rights and obligations laid out in the recent 2016 EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)---a law…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Michael Veale , Reuben Binns , Max Van Kleek

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), enforced from 25th May 2018, aims to reform how organisations view and control the personal data of private EU citizens. The scope of GDPR is somewhat unprecedented: it regulates every…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Sean Sirur , Jason R. C. Nurse , Helena Webb

Since May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has introduced new obligations to industries. By setting a legal framework, it notably imposes strong transparency on the use of personal data. Thus, people must be informed of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-28 Dimitri Delcaillau , Antoine Ly , Franck Vermet , Alizé Papp

Deleting data from a trained machine learning (ML) model is a critical task in many applications. For example, we may want to remove the influence of training points that might be out of date or outliers. Regulations such as EU's General…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Zachary Izzo , Mary Anne Smart , Kamalika Chaudhuri , James Zou

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was enforced in 2018. After this enforcement, many fines have already been imposed by national data protection authorities in the European Union (EU). This paper examines the individual GDPR…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Jukka Ruohonen , Kalle Hjerppe

Machine learning models leak information about the datasets on which they are trained. An adversary can build an algorithm to trace the individual members of a model's training dataset. As a fundamental inference attack, he aims to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-17 Milad Nasr , Reza Shokri , Amir Houmansadr

Privacy policies define the terms under which personal data may be collected and processed by data controllers. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) imposes requirements on these policies that are often difficult to implement.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Raúl Pardo , Daniel Le Métayer