Lokke Moerel is a leading global expert on new technologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, and the Internet of Things, as well as Morrison & Foerster’s lead counsel on Binding Corporate Rules (BCR), with vast experience advising multinational companies in obtaining their BCR approvals throughout the EU. She has also authored the leading textbook on the subject, published by Oxford University Press.  

We recorded this interview prior to the publication of the European Data Protection Board’s opinion on AI models and GDPR principles, following both a discussion paper issued by Hamburg’s Supervisory Authority (“Do LLMs contain personal data?”) and an announcement by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner that it would open an investigation into Google’s PaLM model.  

A separate interview on the same topic, with Jorge Garcia Herrero, was released last week on our Spanish-language channel.

References:

• Do LLMs 'store' personal data? This is asking the wrong question (Lokke Moerel, Marijn Storm)
• Lokke Moerel on LinkedIn
• Lokke Moerel, Morrison & Foerster 
• EDPB opinion 28/2024 on certain data protection aspects related to the processing of personal data in the context of AI models
• Discussion Paper: Large Language Models and Personal Data (Hamburgische Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit)
• Large Language Models do not store personal data: the LLM discussion paper of Hamburg’s DPA with Dr. Markus Wünschelbaum (PrivacyPod)
• Data Protection Commission launches inquiry into Google AI model (DPC)
• ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it (NOYB)
• Report of the work undertaken by the EDPB ChatGPT Taskforce (May 2024)
• [ES] Jorge García Herrero: ¿Contienen datos personales los LLM? ¿Cómo aplicamos el RGPD a los sistemas de IA generativa? (Masters of Privacy)