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The Book: Data Ethics of Power (Edward Elgar Publishing)
Publication Date: December 2021 ISBN: 978 1 80220 310 3 Data Ethics of Power takes a reflective and fresh look at the ethical implications of transforming everyday life and the world through the effortless, costless, and seamless accumulation of extra layers of data. By shedding light on the constant tensions that exist between ethical principles…
Data Ethics of Power – A Human Approach to Big Data and AI Imagine an AI robot that sieves through pictures containing predominantly white faces deciding what human ‘beauty’ means. Ponder on an online search system that learns from news articles to recognize words such as ‘nanny’ and ‘receptionist’ as female and words such as…
EUs Digital, AI and Data Strategy lacks ambition on ethics and Trustworthy AI
The strategy is ambitious on advancing the European AI uptake and taking back control over a European data space. But it lacks ambition when creating the conditions for a thriving ethical and trustworthy AI and data space. On 19th February 2020 the European Commission published a comprehensive strategy on the digital, AI and data future…
Research paper: Culture by Design A Data Interest Analysis of the European AI Policy Agenda
Update December 2020: The article has now been published in FirstMonday and is available here. Please refer to the published article. This article elucidates the cultural power dynamics of the AI momentum of the 2010s with an examination of a European AI policy agenda developed by a High-Level Expert Group on AI and the European…
EU High Level Expert Group on AI launches policy recommendations
The policy recommendations of the EU High Level Group on AI were published 26th June 2019. DataEthics.eus cofounder Gry Hasselbalch was one of the 52 experts assigned with the tasks to create ethical guidelines (published earlier this year) and policy recommendations for the development of AI in Europe. Here she presents in a blog post…
A human centric approach to AI: The EU Ethics Guidelines for AI
The EU’s first ethics guidelines on AI have been published. Dataethics.eu’s cofounder Gry Hasselbalch is a member of the EC High Level Expert Group that developed the guidelines. She sat down on the day of the launch and outlined her personal perspective on the guidelines and the process of developing them in five points. See…
Let’s talk about AI
The way we talk about AI limits us in what we think we can do with it. If we want AI that benefits a human evolution, we need a way of talking about it that respects our human values. AI is everywhere. And nowhere. Because what do we actually mean when we talk about AI?…
Chapter in New book: AI – The Data Ethics Perspective
Artificially intelligent technologies are complex data processing systems that pose several ethical challenges. We should consider the data intensity of these technologies and find solutions to the ethical implications in legislation, design and society in general. We develop intelligent systems to create order in our messy contemporary reality, but very rarely do we put demands…
Data Ethics Principles and Guidelines
Finally, me and my team mates in DataEhics.eu got spare time to develop a set of data ethics principles and guidelines. They are based on years of work and hands on experiences with the life of data handling and practices in organisations and businesses and combines our legal and humanistic knowledge. Our point of departure…
It’s Time for a Data Ethics Impact Assessment
Data protection impact assessments (DPIA), also referred to as Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA), are compulsory under the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). But ensuring an organization or business’ data protection compliance now and in the future is the bare minimum. In a world of data networks that increasingly shape and define everything from…
Let’s talk about AI
BLOG: If we want to design ethical AI that benefits a human evolution, we need a way of talking about it that respects our human values and quirks.
An online talk on Privacy as a competitive advantage at the Mozilla Speaker Series
Discussions of privacy are often framed in terms of struggling against those who threaten it: governments, corporations or other authorities. But it’s not just an ‘activist’ fight to make the case for privacy: it’s just better business. Today it’s a competitive edge for companies to respect user privacy and their right to control their own…
A call for an AI Ethics and Social Impact Analysis
We ask artificially intelligent systems to make order in our messy modern realities, but very rarely do we question what type of order. This is a call for an historical awareness of the social systems that we are building: Which social, cultural norms, values and interests do they represent, reinforce and enact?
Key note IAPP Data Protection Intensive
IAPPs Data Protection Intensive, London, March 2017. The IAPP is the largest and most comprehensive global information privacy community and resource. Founded in 2000, the IAPP is a not-for-profit organization that helps define, support and improve the privacy profession globally.
CPDP 2017: Ethics in the Age of Intelligent Machines
– by Gry Hasselbalch (based on panel debate participation, Ethics, Observational Platforms, Mathematics and Fundamental Rights, CPDP, Brussels, 2017) A few years ago a social media company decided to do some experiments on its users. Filling their news feeds with positive or negative stories, they were measuring hundreds of thousands of people’s emotional reactions. When…
Debating Data Ethics at CPDP 2017
SEE THE DEBATE HERE “Legally you can do a lot with data right now, and a lot is done with data, that is not in the best interest of the individual. This is where we revisit ethics. When the laws and formal systems are not enough.”
Privacy is still alive and kicking in the digital age
by Gry Hasselbalch and Pernille Tranberg, first published in TechCrunch 25th December 2016 Our lives are lived in data. Data crossing borders and connected in virtual space. Most often, it appears, we live in open and too easily accessible data networks. States and corporations are watching us through data, and we are watching each other…
Data Ethics – The New Competitive Advantage/Tech Crunch
The following is an abstract from the book Data Ethics — The New Competitive Advantage (2016) by Gry Hasselbalch and Pernille Tranberg, TechCrunch, Nov 12, 2016. We are living in an era defined and shaped by data. Data makes the world go round. It is politics, it is culture, it is everyday life and it is business. Our data-flooded era…
Is True Online Privacy Only for the Rich?
by Gry Hasselbalch and Pernille Tranberg First appeared in DailyDot 23rd October BLOG: How come Facebook knows that I have a mother with Alzheimer’s, a woman asked the other day. She was sure that she hadn’t provided the social medium with such sensitive information. But when quizzed a bit further, she confirmed that she had…
“It is excellent and without exaggeration a must read for anyone who on a commercial or political level are dealing with big data …” – Økonomisk Ugebrev, Berlingske Business.
Data ethics – the New Competitive Advantage by Gry Hasselbalch and Pernille Tranberg
Modern Alchemy: Solving the AI Mystery
“Algorithms you get me like no other”. A person is leaning into a hole in an otherwise empty plain wall. Outside is a big sky with billions of distant stars. “30 songs you didn’t know you loved yet”, continues the Spotify ad. A spot for your eyes to dwell and escape as you rumble through…
Who decides what privacy is?
Blog (updated 15 June 2016): There’s a battle of words going on, the battle is about the definition of “privacy”, and it’s been going on for centuries. Somehow we’ve led ourselves to believe that the definition of privacy that we all think we share is something intrinsically connected to the individual. But actually it’s not….
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