Security & Compliance
October 24, 2026GDPR AI clause agreed in Council: your Azure design brief
The Council agreed its Digital Omnibus mandate on 21 October 2026: Article 88 bis keeps legitimate interest for AI with the balancing test intact, adds an explicit Article 21 objection right, and a recital says AI development is not in itself a legitimate interest. A clause-by-clause read of document 14756/26 against the September leak, with the Azure design decisions on pseudonymisation keys, special category data, breach runbooks and Application Insights cookies that are now safe to make.
GDPR
Digital Omnibus
Article 88 bis
Legitimate Interest
EU Council
Azure OpenAI
Microsoft Foundry
Pseudonymisation
Application Insights
IMY
Sweden
By Falak Mahmood