{"id":187912,"date":"2026-02-16T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/eu-parliament-blocks-ai-features-over-cyber-privacy-fears-politico\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:30:09","slug":"eu-parliament-blocks-ai-features-over-cyber-privacy-fears-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/eu-parliament-blocks-ai-features-over-cyber-privacy-fears-politico\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Parliament blocks AI features over cyber, privacy fears \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-parliament-blocks-ai-features-over-cyber-privacy-fears\/\">EU Parliament blocks AI features over cyber, privacy fears \u2013 POLITICO<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-parliament-blocks-ai-features-over-cyber-privacy-fears\/\">https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-parliament-blocks-ai-features-over-cyber-privacy-fears\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-16 11:39:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.politico.eu\">www.politico.eu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: <a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. <\/p>\n<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 urged the Parliament to ditch internal use of Microsoft software in favor of a European alternative, POLITICO reported. The institution in 2023 also banned the use of social media app TikTok 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<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU Parliament blocks AI features over cyber, privacy fears \u2013 POLITICO https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-parliament-blocks-ai-features-over-cyber-privacy-fears\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-16&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/16\/GettyImages-2235097082-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,24,28],"class_list":["post-187912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-cybersecurity","tag-data-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187914,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187912\/revisions\/187914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}