Although the world has been shaken up by artificial intelligence and the exploitation of personal data, the place of individuals and the control of their data have become central issues in the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the law for a digital Republic. Célia Zolynski, Professor of Private Law at the University of Versailles - Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), and Nicolas Anciaux, Petrus team research director at Inria Saclay - Île-de-France, seized the opportunity offered by the DATAIA Institute to enable a collaboration of computer scientists and lawyers to analyse the Personal Cloud architectures available today, and establish the responsibilities of each of them with the central objective of protecting the individual.

Connected objects, specifically conversational agents like Google Home, bring a new dimension to interaction and could become a mean of influencing individuals. They are currently neither regulated nor evaluated and very obscure. Based on the study of "nudges", techniques to modify the behavior of people, the team of Laurence Devillers "Affective and social dimensions in the spoken interactions" with Ioana Vasilescu, Gilles Adda of LIMSI - CNRS, and the "Digital Economy" team from the RITM laboratory; Grazia Cecere, Fabrice Le Guel and Serge Pajak, University Paris-Sud, have decided to collaborate to highlight the importance of ethics in the creation of these objects.

The Alan Turing Institute signs agreement with the DATAIA Institute to promote collaboration between France and the UK.

The DATAIA Institute and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), in partnership with the the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) and the French Embassy in Japan, organized a France-Japan workshop on "Data Science and AI, Core Technologies and Applications For a New Society".

Thursday, March 29, on the occasion of the presentation of the Villani report and the summit "AI for Humanity", Emmanuel Macron announces the creation of a French network of Artificial Intelligence coordinated by Inria and quotes the Institute DATAIA.