EU health infra, legal pushback, and GAN-based sharing: synthetic data’s week in practice

The EU’s SYNTHIA project is building infrastructure and validation frameworks for privacy-preserving synthetic health data under GDPR constraints. A February 2026 legal analysis argues synthetic data shifts—not removes—risks like bias, misuse, and governance complexity. NIH highlights GAN-generated synthetic data enabling safer clinical data sharing in Kenya and other low-resource settings.