gzf.bsky.social
Data Protection Geek. Co-author of the big GDPR OUP Commentary🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸 US-based, former Brussels bubbler. Writes about data protection law and policy, AI governance through a Global lens (& sometimes democracy)
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Speakers include: @marcoalmada.com, @michae.lv, @corneliafurculita.bsky.social, @davidheniguk.bsky.social, @elifmendosk.bsky.social, @gzf.bsky.social, @elifbiber.bsky.social, David Mangan, Jose Camarena Lopez, Mira Burri, Sylvia Chen, Faye Wang, Claude Moraes + welcomes by @dimitriosgian.bsky.social
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Next was an excellent panel on how data protection principles apply to AI systems with friends of the playlist @gzf.bsky.social and Valentina Pavel (👋), Diarmuid Goulding, Helena Koning, and @irenekamara.bsky.social at @cpdpconferences.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE43... (4/12)
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I support this motion 😅
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I recognized you 🤗
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Thank you to all the panelists for sharing their knowledge with the audience, to #CPDP25 for hosting this conversation, and especially to our attendees who filled the room to the point where some had to stand to be there. 9/9
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What is the impact of this fact over how AI trained on or outputting personal data is built or offered?
I hope that now that the zone has been flooded, cleanup starts and attention shifts back to the baseline framework (data protection law) on top of which the other legislative acts were built. 9/
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To me, the conversation was like a breath of fresh air. Especially since I had the opportunity to bring attention to the fact that the EU protects a fundamental right at constitutional level for persons to have their personal data processed *fairly* (check that language of Article 8(2) Charter 8/
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We also discussed what the EDPB opinion on data protection & AI models clarifies & what it actually scoped out, indicating nonetheless that these are areas which warrant future guidance: processing of sensitive data, Data Protection by Design and by Default, automated decision-making 7/
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… as well as how it impacts the safeguards needed for solely automated decision-making with significant impact on individuals, what lessons can we learn from the standardization & certification provisions in the GDPR for the application of the AI Act 6/
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We touched on some of the key areas where data protection law is particularly relevant: DPIAs/risk assessments, lawful grounds for processing personal data for training AI, how fairness shapes what lawful grounds can be used when, in particular in relation to data scraping, … 5/
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We discussed fairness, transparency and accountability - ALL of them literal GDPR legal obligations when personal data are being touched, used, transformed, & all of them having the potential to bring real consequences on how AI developers train & fine tune models, & how organizations deploy AI 4/
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This is what I said yesterday during a panel at #CPDP, where I had the honor to lead a conversation with Helena Koning (Mastercard), Diarmuid Goulding (Data Protection Commission Ireland), Valentina Pavel (Ada Lovelace Institute) & Irene Kamara 🟥 (TILT) 3/
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… that focus, resources and attention were driven significantly away from data protection law / GDPR / Article 8 Charter at a crucial time when AI started its boom on the consumer market. 2/
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“Behavioural data is freezing the future” - 💙 one to remember. 3/
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The keynote is on “Geopolitics of Data Protection and AI”, and starts from an overview of key research papers to understand premises of AGI and criticism of AGI, including from Gebru & Torres; Narayanan & Kapoor; Altmeyer et al 2/
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We are incredibly lucky to have participated in such great numbers and to have a clear difference between the 2, that, finally, a couple of minutes ago, Simion officially conceded to his candidate through a video message. What a sigh of relief for democracy and rule of law
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I wholeheartedly agree. Not sure where you’re originally from, Eddy, but for some of us, especially in the East of Europe, the EU and Europe Day means the world.
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I was wondering… what if the DPAs/EDPB could have hired enough staff… 🥲
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Me too!! I loved Northern Exposure so that’s why I decided to watch it. I’m half through the season, so far it’s been delightful.
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Oh, I know. I was born in that “Golden Age” 🥲
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And perhaps it is now easier to understand why the EU chose to elevate the right to data protection to fundamental right status, and enshrined it in the Treaty and the Charter.
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In the enforcement section of this piece papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Everyone (almost everyone) is underestimating why independent supervision is so essential in these matters, and why independent supervision is in fact a component of the fundamental right to personal data protection. I wrote a bit about these concerns last year…