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EDPB sheds light on anonymisation and web scraping for generative AI and adopts final version of guidelines on blockchain
During its latest plenary, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopted guidelines on anonymisation and guidelines on web scraping in the context of generative AI. The new EDPB guidelines bring clarity to the notion of anonymous data, taking also into account the ruling of the Court of Justice of the EU in the case C-413/23 P EDPS v SRB of 4 September 2025 and other CJEU jurisprudence. Web scraping is a large-scale automated data extraction process that often operates without individuals being aware, and which may pose significant risks to the protection of their personal data. In its guidelines on web scraping in the context of generative AI, the Board clarifies various aspects of the GDPR compliance of web scraping, including the legal basis for such activities and the conditions under which special categories of data can be processed in this context. The GDPR applies to web scraping when it includes personal data processing operations, such as collection, storage, organisation and retrieval. The EDPB explains how blockchains work, assessing the different possible architectures and their implications for the processing of personal data.