{"id":340621,"date":"2026-02-16T19:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/340621\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T19:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:56:07","slug":"eu-parliament-blocks-ai-features-over-cyber-privacy-fears-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/340621\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Parliament blocks AI features over cyber, privacy fears \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union has beefed up its data security policies in recent years, in part due to concerns around foreign technology vendors. A group of lawmakers in November <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/get-us-off-microsoft-eu-lawmakers-press-parliament-to-change-in-house-it\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">urged the Parliament to ditch internal use of Microsoft software<\/a> in favor of a European alternative, POLITICO reported. The institution in 2023 also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-parliament-to-ban-staff-from-tiktok-over-cybersecurity-concerns\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">banned the use of social media app TikTok<\/a> on staff devices and recommended that MEPs delete it from their phones.<\/p>\n<p>The latest move to switch off AI tools concerns built-in features like writing and summarizing assistants, enhanced virtual assistants and webpage summaries in both tablets and phones, an EU official said, granted anonymity to disclose details of the security policy. <\/p>\n<p>Apps, email, calendar, documents, and other day-to-day tools are not affected, the email to lawmakers said.<\/p>\n<p>In a written statement to POLITICO, the European Parliament press service said it &#8220;constantly monitor[s] cybersecurity threats and quickly deploys the necessary measures to prevent them,&#8221; but wouldn&#8217;t comment on specific security or cybersecurity matters due to their &#8220;sensitive nature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Parliament declined to clarify what exact built-in AI features have been disabled, or what systems the work devices operate on. <\/p>\n<p>The email also urged lawmakers to &#8220;consider applying similar precautions&#8221; for their own, private devices, especially those being used for work-related tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Members should avoid exposing work emails, documents or internal information &#8220;to AI features that scan or analyze content,&#8221; be &#8220;cautious&#8221; with third-party AI apps and &#8220;avoid granting broad access to data,&#8221; the email said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Union has beefed up its data security policies in recent years, in part due to concerns&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,43300,6390,982,133342,2594,74679,7241,18,4956,19,3113,17,29305,824,983,827,82],"class_list":["post-340621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-big-data","tag-cloud","tag-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurity-and-data-protection","tag-data","tag-data-flows","tag-data-protection","tag-eire","tag-espionage","tag-ie","tag-intelligence","tag-ireland","tag-parliament","tag-privacy","tag-security","tag-services","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116082074116432512","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}