D7.4: Implications of profiling practices on democracy

Table Of Content

• Introduction
• Privacy and Data Protection in a Democratic Constitutional State
• The democratic constitutional state: three fundamental and generic principles
• The recognition of human rights in their double (negative and positive) function
• The rule of law
• People’s sovereignty and democracy
• The democratic constitutional state and the invention of two complementary legal tools of power control: opacity of the individual and transparency of power
• Opacity tools: opacity of the individuals and limits to the reach of power
• Transparency tools: channelling power and making power transparent and accountable
• Distinguishing both: a different default position (The example of Articles 7 & 8 EU-Charter of Human Rights)
• The default positions: privacy as an opacity tool and data protection as a transparency tool
• Privacy as an opacity tool. Default position: prohibitive protection of autonomy against (excessive) steering
• Data protection as a transparency tool. Default position: regulation of the processing of personal data
• Combining the tools
• The existing legal framework of privacy and data protection
• Correlatable humans, profiling and data protection.
• Profiling and the identity of European citizens
• A changing landscape for democracy and the rule of law
• Europe’s Constitutional Democracy
• Some historical roots of the rule of law
• Centrality of the human and the legal person: positive and negative freedom
• Privacy and Data Protection
• Tools of transparency and tools of opacity
• Privacy
• Legal protection of privacy
• Identity, the human person and the legal person
• Data Protection
• What should Data Protection regulations protect?
• Introduction: who is made transparent?
• Autonomy
• Security
• Privacy
• Equality and fairness
• (How) can Data Protection be effective?
• Reply James Backhouse (LSE):
• Reply Martin Meints (ICPP):
• Introduction
• Profiling and data protection law
• Examples and scenarios of the application of current data protection legislation
• Current profiling in the public sector
• Current profiling in the private sector
• Future scenario of AmI
• Conclusion
• Reply Angelos Yannopoulos:
• Introductory remarks – perspective of this reply
• Playing the ever more dangerous game of societal evolution
• Transparency at the level of government and corporation: joke, yoke, hoax or hope? And ambient intelligence?
• Reply Bert-Jaap Koops
• Just what is it that makes today’s profiling so different, so repelling?
• The effect of profiling on fundamental legal principles
• Privacy is dead (Requiescat in pace)
• Data protection is dead (Long live data protection)
• Who am I?
• The effect of profiling on the rule of law
• Counter-profiling by ‘weak’ parties
• Conclusions
• Introduction
• Hildebrandt, Gutwirth & De Hert: what is at stake?
• The imbroglio of technology and its social context
• Profiling as anticipation
• Exploration of what is often taken for granted: constitutional democracy
• Data protection legislation: solution or dummy?
• James Backhouse: a new social contract
• Martin Meints: new concept of implicit consent
• Angelos Yannopoulos: transparency for corporations and government, opacity for human beings
• Bert-Jaap Koops: human decency and counter profiling
• Bibliography