AI at centre of G7 Privacy declaration

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 12 - Pasquale Stanzione, the president of Italy's data-protection authority, expressed satisfaction after the three-day Privacy G7 meeting ended on Friday.
    "The outcome of the work done went beyond all expectations," Stanzione told ANSA after the last session at Rome's Palazzo Poli.
    "The countries of the G7 have different arrangements and perspectives, but they are united by a set of principles and regulations that converge towards the idea of ;;a free, democratic society, and we found broad agreement on this basis." As regards AI, Stanzione said the idea is "not to hinder it, but to accompany it in its evolution into a structure that is anthropocentric, that is to say respectful of the centrality of the person".
    Vice President Ginevra Cerrina Feroni said that "we got seven documents approved by the big seven, all of them unanimously.
    "We addressed the issue of cross-border data transfer and that of emerging technologies, and enforcement too," she continued.
    "We approved a document on artificial intelligence, applied to the world of minors and and this is a major new development".
    Agostino Ghiglia, a member of the authority's board, commented that: "we significantly increased collaboration proposals with our colleagues from the G7 in order to ensure the increasingly free circulation of data accessible to companies, above all to make their lives easier".
    Another board member, Guido Scorza, said the emerging technologies "often move faster than regulation" and that age verification is one of the issues focused on most because "there are services that simply must be inaccessible to children because that are not right for them".
    The session devoted to cooperation was chaired by the authority's Secretary General Fabio Mattei.
    Mattei said it concluded with a message about the need to "strengthen collaboration and cooperation based on the logic of protection of humans in their relationship with technology".
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