Data protection and digital competition
by Ian Brown and Douwe Korff
The European Data Protection Supervisor Opinion is a well-meant but ultimately futile and doomed attempt to put parts of a thing – the Commission’s proposed framework for financial data sharing – into a box – the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – from which it is designed to escape.
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Certain themes keep coming up in discussions of “AI”/machine learning I’ve written about before. To make it easier to refer to them, I’ve just published two new documents.
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The new US Executive Order does not change the fact the US authorities insist on carrying out indiscriminate, untargeted mass surveillance, also of EU persons and EU governmental and non-governmental entities, by means of bulk collection of data, without independent substantive judicial oversight or effective redress.
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If the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill is adopted as proposed, the UK data protection regime will be significantly less strict than – i.e., not “essentially equivalent” to – the EU GDPR regime, and undermine the EU regime.
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In a legal opinion prepared for the European Centre for Not-for-profit Law, I argue that AI systems that are unexplainable/ unchallengeable present an unacceptable risk and should be prohibited in both the Artificial Intelligence Act and the Council of Europe Convention on AI.
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I have prepared this Opinion for a forthcoming application on the freedom of expression rights of bloggers and other new media actors to the European Court of Human Rights.
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Israel is in the process of updating its Privacy Protection Act. At the request of the European Middle East Project, I have updated my opinion on the adequacy in EU terms of the amended law.
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A note on illegal mass surveillance and bulk data data mining by Europol and the EU Member States, following the European Data Protection Supervisor’s order that Europol delete data held in its databases on individuals with no established link to a criminal activity.
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In Case-817/19, Belgium’s Constitutional Court has asked the EU Court of Justice whether the PNR Directive (2016/681) is compatible with the Charter of Fundamental Rights. On the basis of this detailed legal opinion, the CJEU should declare the Directive (like the Data Retention Directive) to be fundamentally in breach of the Charter.
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A Brussels friend shared this response from the European Commission to the Parliament, regarding its resolution on UK adequacy. My comments are interspersed.
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