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Data Security and Privacy Lessons From Recent GDPR Fines

Under the GDPR’s article 83, fines are divided into two separate categories. The first, which merits a maximum 2% of global revenue, is associated with security violations. The second category merits a more severe fine at 4% of global revenue relate to limiting processing for personal data, gaining consent, and processing data lawfully: Article 15: …

The Economist: We need to own our data as a human right—and be compensated for it

Identity and personal data will be vital aspects of living in the future, says will.i.am, a musician and entrepreneur “AT A LUNCH at the World Economic Forum five years ago, guests were asked to predict what people would care about around 2019. My mind raced through thoughts about identity and data. When the host, Marc …

Meetings of the Expert Group on Business-to-Government Data Sharing

Following an open selection process, the Commission appointed 23 experts to an Expert Group on Business-to-Government Data Sharing. The Expert Group’s tasks shall be to: identify good practices on B2G data sharing in order to contribute to more efficient and better public service delivery and/or more reliable and evidence-based policymaking; assess the legal, economic and …

Why a Right to Explanation of Automated Decision-Making Does Not Exist in the General Data Protection Regulation

Since approval of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2016, it has been widely and repeatedly claimed that a ‘right to explanation’ of all decisions made by automated or artificially intelligent algorithmic systems will be legally mandated by the GDPR once it is in force, in 2018. However, there are several reasons …

Digital’s Cleaving Power and Its Consequences

“AI is not about reproducing human intelligence, it is about doing without it. [..] Today, AI decouples successful problem solving from intelligent behaviour, and it is thanks to this decoupling that it can relentlessly colonise the boundless space of tasks, whenever these can be successfully performed without any understanding, awareness, sensitivity, concerns, hunches, insights, meaning, …