Europe’s health synthetic-data push, global-health pilots, legal risk flags, and cyber use cases

The EU’s SYNTHIA project is building synthetic data infrastructure to accelerate healthcare AI under GDPR constraints, with a focus on validation and regulatory clarity. Separately, NIH highlights synthetic-data work in Kenya using GAN-based methods like CTGAN to enable safer medical data sharing with explicit evaluation of fidelity, utility, and privacy. Commentary from legal scholarship warns synthetic data can introduce risks like model collapse, bias, and misuse, while a cybersecurity perspective argues synthetic data can underpin safer resilience testing for critical infrastructure.