Letters to the Editor: A country must decide how its data is being used

'Ireland should use its EU presidency to put data alongside AI on the EU agenda'

Meta's data center in Clonee Co Meath. 'Our data should be treated as a common good — something we all have a stake in, managed in the public interest while protecting the rights of individuals and organisations.' File picture: Niall Carson/PA

As EU leaders gather in Dublin today to focus on AI, one question deserves particular attention: what is happening to our data?

AI runs on data, much of it about us: Our health, our work, and our lives.