Critics say AI Act's high-risk delay leaves migration and border AI unregulated
A 6 August explainer traces what changed on 2 August and what didn't: Article 50 transparency duties are now enforceable, but the Digital Omnibus's push of Annex III high-risk obligations to December 2027 leaves AI systems used in migration, asylum and border management — already classified high-risk under Annex III — without the Act's risk-management, documentation and human-oversight requirements for another 16 months. Digital rights groups (Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice, the ProtectNotSurveil coalition) argue this widens existing non-discrimination gaps and raises the risk of wrongful asylum rejections, while EU-funded border-surveillance tech deployed outside the bloc sits outside the Act's reach altogether. Practical read: an Annex III migration/border client is still governed by GDPR and national law in the interim — the Act's own safeguards for that specific use case simply aren't live yet.
Source: Al Jazeera
NITDA signs National Sovereign Cloud Initiative framework covering AI infrastructure
NITDA signed three regulatory instruments on 5 August — the National Cloud Computing Guideline, National Cloud Technical Guideline and National Digital Infrastructure Assurance Framework — plus a National Cloud Investment Strategy, together forming Nigeria's National Sovereign Cloud Initiative. The framework explicitly names AI infrastructure and sovereign computing among the digital assets it's designed to govern, and NITDA plans to operationalise a national regulatory platform by October 2026 for onboarding, assessment and certification of cloud and digital infrastructure providers. For any client building or hosting AI systems on Nigerian infrastructure, this is a live, dated compliance track distinct from the still-pending Digital Economy Bill and NITDA's AI risk-classification regime — worth tracking as its own registration/certification obligation once the October platform goes live.
Source: NITDA / Nairametrics
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Begin in writing →This briefing is general information, not legal advice, and does not create an advisor–client relationship. Summaries are original; follow source links for the full record. Adesanya AI Advisory — Abdulwahab B. Adesanya, Barrister-at-Law (Nigeria).