Case files · EU AI Act
Realistic cases of AI products meeting the EU AI Act, the GDPR and medical-device rules. Each one asks the question a team would ask, and shows how the answer depends on a detail.
Cases are composite or based on real situations with details changed. Each page cites the articles and states when it was last reviewed.
All cases
New cases appear here after they run on LinkedIn, in a longer version with the full analysis.
A startup sells AI cameras to stop shoplifting. Depending on what the camera looks at, the same product is low-risk, high-risk, close to banned, or banned.
#2 · Composite caseA skin app is marketed as wellness, then as melanoma detection. The advert makes the problem visible, but the risk score had already made it a medical device.
A CV screening tool built on someone else's model, then rebranded by a customer. Three companies, one tool, three roles.
Questions
If your product sits close to one of these lines, the first question is what exactly it does. Write to me if you want to talk it through.
Case files are study material, not legal advice. Cases are composite or anonymised; any resemblance to a specific company is not intended.