What future for our personal data, in a world hungry for digital information?

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French data protection commissioners CNIL publish their 2025-2028 Strategic Plan, as global tech giants seek to exploit as much personal information as possible.

Article written byNicolas Arpagian
Radio France
Published01/25/2025 5:20 PM
Reading time: 3min
The National Commission for Information Technology and Civil gambling data austria Liberties is responsible for ensuring that digital uses comply with regulations on the protection of personal data. (TIMON SCHNEIDER / MAXPPP)
The National Commission for Information Technology and Civil Liberties is responsible for ensuring that digital uses comply with regulations on the protection of personal data. (TIMON SCHNEIDER / MAXPPP)
Tech conglomerates are announcing billions of dollars in investments in artificial intelligence. Beyond money, there is another highly sought-after commodity in this field: data.

This term "data" has very different realities. It is ordered and digitized knowledge that constitutes the documentary bases used to educate artificial intelligence models. So that the algorithms formulate relevant responses in the form of texts, images or videos.

Thus, in recent weeks, media outlets such as Agence France Presse with Mistral AI or Le Monde with OpenAI have signed agreements so that their publications participate in the training of these large language models (LLM).

Individuals are also concerned
We are all producers of data. For example, this concerns the digital traces left by each of our online consultations, the messages we exchange, the geolocation of our movements, our purchases on the Internet, the captures of our connected objects, our interactions on social networks, etc.

All of this information, if compiled and associated with an individual, is likely to characterize their tastes, opinions, state of mind and even their state of health. This can therefore be particularly intrusive with regard to our private lives.

Commissioners responsible for supervising data protection
Since 1978, the National Commission for Information Technology and Civil Liberties ( CNIL(New window)) is responsible for ensuring that digital uses comply with regulations on the protection of personal data. It ensures a balance between respect for fundamental rights and taking into account technological innovation, which is not problematic by nature.

The CNIL has just published its strategic plan for the years 2025-2028(New window). It is an interesting read because this Commission is made up of a college of 18 people with diverse expertise: academics, parliamentarians, magistrates, IT specialists, private sector professionals.

Priorities for the next three years
With the multitude of questions raised by technological developments, the CNIL and its 300 agents have made choices. Its priority areas are:

the protection of minors in the digital world,
strengthening the role of each person in collective cybersecurity by training and empowering users,
the development of privacy-friendly digital identity systems,
the promotion of ethical and rights-respecting artificial intelligence.
Faced with an America and Asia that willingly deregulate, France and Europe will now have to arbitrate between a legal framework that sufficiently protects the rights of individuals but which must not prevent the emergence and development of innovative activities.

It is a difficult balance to achieve, and one that concerns us all, as consumers or producers of these technological solutions.

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