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Medical data and data about children have very specific protections. The article says these were accessed without permission. If a lab tech dropped my lab results on the floor and you picked them up, it would not give you the right to store and use my information.

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How were they accessed without permission if they were protected? Is that the fault of the AI folks, or those sworn to protect the information? Unfortunate and bad, but if it's up there in the open I'm more worried about the fact that's it's available than the fact that an AI scraped it. If an AI can figure it out, so can multiple bad actors.

The data can have been leaked illegally and put on the internet. That doesn't mean you can use it.

As an EU citizen, some random company can't use PII related to me if I don't give consent or revoke my consent. They'll have to remove it or face a huge fine. The law doesn't care about the cost for your company to comply.

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