Hugging Face selected for CNIL Enhanced Support to accelerate GDPR compliance across Hugging Face Hub and Inference API

AI Impact Summary

CNIL selected Hugging Face from over 40 candidates for its Enhanced Support program, signaling a formal push toward GDPR compliance across Hugging Face Hub and Inference API. The collaboration builds on privacy-focused work from the BigScience Workshop and the BigCode project (co-hosted with ServiceNow), including pseudonymization tooling and governance improvements to data processing and model sharing. Expect clearer privacy guidance and stronger governance controls that reduce regulatory risk for customers adopting Hugging Face services.