(Disruptive/Enabling) Technologies, Ethics and the GDPR.

Organised by Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg

Chair: Mark Cole, Saarbrücken institute of European Media Law (DE)

Moderator: Andra Giurgiu, University of Luxembourg (LU)

Speakers: Maja Brkan, Maastricht Univerity (NL); Mathilde Stenersen, Commission Nationale pour la Protection des Donnees (LU); Charles Raab, University of Edinburgh (UK); Erik Valgaeren, Stibbe (BE)

This panel will discuss the role of technology in the context set up by the GDPR as having both an enabling and a disruptive potential. Technologies, like AI, which can fulfill both of these functions, will be debated. At the same time, a closer look at specific provisions of the GDPR, such as the Article 22 provision on automated decision-making, will examine potential limits set by the Regulation in the use of these technologies. Ethics, as an underlying value to be considered in the way information technologies are designed and deployed, will be the lens through which these issues have to be examined, in view of ensuring general respect for fundamental rights. The discussion will also include issues of whether and how IT can actually be used in the practical enforcement of the GDPR.

- Is technology enabling or rather disrupting the application of the GDPR?
- How can we use technology as an enabler and what are the limits we choose to set for technologies having the potential to be disruptive?
- What are the limits for the practice and how to overcome them?

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