Personal Data and User Profiling Computer Scientist Industry SSH Researcher
Legal and regulatory frameworks related to personal data and user profiling

The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of how AI, big data and frontier technologies impact rights from the data protection perspective.

Effect of Technology: Law, Privacy, Surveillance
Democratic values: Equality, Fairness, Rule of Law, Transparency, Trust
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Critical Digital Citizenship Freedom and Manipulation Citizen Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Computer Scientist Industry Public Authority SSH Researcher
Risks to individual freedoms of speech and action

Since our liberal democracies generally employ forms of representativeness to their institutions, the impact of AI on free and fair elections is also one of the key ways in which technology affects our polities.

Effect of Technology: Agency, Autonomy, Bias, Disinformation & Misinformation, Epistemic effect, Inclusion/Exclusion, Individuals, Polarisation, Privacy, Society, Surveillance
Democratic values: Accountability, Deliberation, Equality, Fairness, Participation, Transparency, Trust
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Personal Data and User Profiling Citizen Computer Scientist Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Industry Public Authority SSH Researcher
The value of democracy

There are both instrumental and intrinsic reasons to value democracy. In short, democracy is valuable instrumentally because: 

(1) democracy can assist us in producing laws and policies that protect the rights and interests of citizens, 

Effect of Technology: Agency, Culture, Democracy, Epistemic effect, Inclusion/Exclusion, Individuals, Legitimacy, Opacity, Society
Democratic values: Accountability, Deliberation, Equality, Fairness, Participation, Pluralism, Rule of Law, Transparency, Trust
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Personal Data and User Profiling Citizen Computer Scientist Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Industry Public Authority SSH Researcher
What are Knowledge Technologies?

Knowledge technologies, as distinct from information technologies, have been defined in the Module C of the social risk toolkit.

Democratic values: Transparency, Trust
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