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- Identity of Identity.
- Interoperability.
- Profiling.
- D7.2: Descriptive analysis and inventory of profiling practices.
- D7.3: Report on Actual and Possible Profiling Techniques in the Field of Ambient Intelligence.
- D7.4: Implications of profiling practices on democracy.
- D7.6 Workshop on AmI, Profiling and RFID.
- D7.7: RFID, Profiling, and AmI.
- D7.8: Workshop on Ambient Law.
- D7.9: A Vision of Ambient Law.
- D7.10: Multidisciplinary literature selection, with Wiki discussion forum on Profiling, AmI, RFID, Biometrics and Identity.
- D7.11: Kick-off Workshop on biometric behavioural profiling and Transparency Enhancing Technologies.
- Forensic Implications.
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- Mobility and Identity.
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D7.4: Implications of profiling practices on democracy
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Title: “D7.4: Implications of profiling practices on democracy and rule of law”
Author: Mireille Hildebrandt, Serge Gutwirth & Paul De Hert (Law Science Technology & Society, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) / WP7
Repliers: James Backhouse (London School of Economics, UK)
Angelos Yannopoulos (ICCS, Greece)
Martin Meints (ICPP, Germany)
Bert-Jaap Koops (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Editors: Mireille Hildebrandt & Serge Gutwirth (Law Science Technology & Society, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Reviewers: Sarah Thatcher (London School of Economics, UK)
Bert-Jaap Koops (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Martin Meints (ICPP, Germany)
Identifier: D7.4
Type: [Deliverable]
Date: 10.11.20
Class: [Public]
File:
Summary Profiling: Implications for Democracy and Rule of Law |
The possible effects of profiling technologies should be considered from a less policy-oriented perspective than may be usual within NoE’s. This deliverable has chosen to raise some fundamental issues at the intersection of law, political theory and human identity – all related to the advance of profiling technologies. At this moment, highly sophisticated data mining techniques are becoming available to corporations and governments because of the ever cheaper and ubiquitous hardware and software that surrounds us. These technologies provide profiles with a flux of instant-categorisations that will be adjusted in real time if the Ambient Intelligent vision comes through. How will these instant-categorisations affect individual citizens and their sense of self? Will they be aware of this impact and does it matter if they are not? Should we worry about collection and processing of personal data, or only about sensitive personal data, or is this a crucial error, because profiling technologies construct intimate knowledge out of trivial data? Can abuse be prevented by counting on the human decency or ‘good practices’ of those in power, or do individual citizens need legal and/or technological tools to enforce such decency if necessary? Democracy and rule of law cannot be taken for granted; they are indeed historical artefacts that need constant maintenance and reconstruction, to deal with the dynamics of a changing world. It may even be the case that the proliferation of information will clog efficient and effective government and fair, competitive market infrastructures unless profiling technologies provide the means to select relevant information from irrelevant information, in order to build knowledge instead of just collect a meaningless abundance of data. The question will be how to reconstruct the checks and balances in the face of the new developments. The report begins with a careful exploration of democracy and rule of law. It continues by laying out possible implications of profiling and discussing tools to recreate checks and balances. After that, four critical replies are presented that deliver short, critical discussions of the issues at stake. In the conclusions the arguments are summarised and provided with a reply to critics. |
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Foreword
FIDIS partners from various disciplines have contributed as authors to this document. The following list names the main contributors for the chapters of this document:
Chapter | Contributor(s) |
1 (Introduction) | Mireille Hildebrandt, Serge Gutwirth (LSTS-VUB) |
2 Privacy and Data Protection in a Democratic Constitutional State | Serge Gutwirth, Paul de Hert (LSTS-VUB) |
3 Profiling and the Identity of European Citizens | Mireille Hildebrandt (LSTS-VUB) |
4 Reply James Backhouse | James Backhouse (LSE) |
5 Reply Martin Meints | Martin Meints (ICPP) |
6 Reply Angelos Yannopoulos | Angelos Yannopoulos (ICCS) |
7 Reply Bert-Jaap Koops | Bert-Jaap Koops (TILT) |
7 Conclusions | Serge Gutwirth, Mireille Hildebrandt (LSTS-VUB) |
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