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Non-personal data

Everything that is not personal data. The category exists to make clear that the AI Act applies even when no personal data is involved.

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Identifier: praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-niet-persoonsgebonden-gegevens
Payload hash (sha256): f6030cd84e362fe78bf9921f4e12b6d6018095b99b973465833b9144135e6040

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Praxikon, "Non-personal data", praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-niet-persoonsgebonden-gegevens@1.0.0, dataset praxikon:sys:registry:dataset:ai-act-implementation-graph 2.1.0 (schema 1.4.0), effective_at 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z, known_at 2026-08-14T00:00:00.000Z, sha256 f6030cd84e362fe78bf9921f4e12b6d6018095b99b973465833b9144135e6040

Version: 1.0.0
Legal time (effective_at): 8 August 2026
Knowledge time (known_at): 8 August 2026
Closed on: Not closed
Application date: 1 August 2024
Topics: definitions

Review status: Placed against the official source (8 August 2026). Next check due by 4 February 2027. The check date is the knowledge date of this version; no later recheck has been recorded.

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Source
Official fact on this object, with its locator.
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Article 3(51)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
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Consequence
- ActorDeployer
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:deployer
- ActorProvider of an AI system
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:provider

What this object states

Official fact

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Article 3(51) defines non-personal data as data other than personal data as defined in Article 4, point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2016/679.
- Locator: Article 3(51)praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689Open official source

Our interpretation

Our own reading. It can change without the law changing, and it is not the position of a supervisory authority.

This residual category is the proof that the AI Act is not a privacy law. The data and data governance requirements in Article 10, the technical documentation in Article 11 and the logging in Article 12 apply equally where you work only with machine data, sensor data or synthetic data. "There is no personal data in it" is at most a GDPR argument and never an AI Act exemption. In practice, technical teams use this argument to avoid documentation duties in industrial and infrastructure applications, which are exactly the applications that can fall under Annex I and Annex III.
- Locator: Article 3(51)praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689Open official source

Recommended step

A practical step we consider appropriate. Not an obligation following from the Regulation.

Record for each dataset whether it contains personal data, but never let that answer determine whether you produce the AI Act documentation. Assess documentation duties on the system's risk classification, not on the nature of the data.
- Locator: Article 3(51)praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689Open official source

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Reference

Praxikon, "Non-personal data",
praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-niet-persoonsgebonden-gegevens@1.0.0,
dataset praxikon:sys:registry:dataset:ai-act-implementation-graph 2.1.0 (schema 1.4.0),
effective_at 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z, known_at 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z,
sha256 f6030cd84e362fe78bf9921f4e12b6d6018095b99b973465833b9144135e6040,
https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/definition/definitie-niet-persoonsgebonden-gegevens
(https://www.praxikon.com/api/v1/entities?id=praxikon%3Aeu%3Aai-act%3Adefinition%3Adefinitie-niet-persoonsgebonden-gegevens&effective_at=2026-08-08&known_at=2026-08-08&lang=en, accessed 2026-08-23)

Short form

praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-niet-persoonsgebonden-gegevens@1.0.0 (sha256 f6030cd8)

BibTeX

@misc{praxikon-eu-ai-act-definition-definitie-niet-persoonsgebonden-gegevens-1-0-0,
  author       = {{Praxikon}},
  title        = {Non-personal data},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {1.0.0},
  number       = {praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-niet-persoonsgebonden-gegevens},
  howpublished = {AI Act Change \& Evidence Graph, dataset 2.1.0, schema 1.4.0},
  note         = {effective_at 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z; known_at 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z; sha256 f6030cd84e362fe78bf9921f4e12b6d6018095b99b973465833b9144135e6040},
  url          = {https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/definition/definitie-niet-persoonsgebonden-gegevens},
  urldate      = {2026-08-23},
  language     = {en}
}

CSL JSON

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