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SUMMARY:IC Colloquium: Global data justice: a social-justice-based approac
 h to governing the data economy
DTSTART:20191202T161500
DTEND:20191202T171500
DTSTAMP:20260916T114018Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:By: Linnet Taylor - Tilburg Institute for Law\, Technology and
  Society\nVideo of her talk\n\nAbstract:\nEurope has placed much trust in 
 both data protection regulation and ethics to solve problems of exploitati
 on and unfairness in relation to data technologies. However\, it has becom
 e apparent that data protection does not tackle the structural components 
 of the problem\, and ethics-washing has become a highly visible problem in
  relation to the private sector in particular. Moreover\, we are seeing th
 at attempts to formalise values such as fairness\, accountability and tran
 sparency into requirements for computing systems are failing to actually e
 mbed those values in the governance of technology. I will argue that if we
  wish to regain control over our data economy we should focus our attentio
 n on concerns of social justice\, politics and the global scale of data ex
 ploitation. The data economy is regulated nationally but operates across b
 orders\, and the scale of the problem has outpaced regulatory authorities
 ’ capacity around the world. This presentation will consider the value o
 f a social justice approach to data governance: one that can connect the p
 roblems of data injustice to those of injustice more broadly. This global 
 data justice perspective offers a more structural and political take on pr
 oblems that are usually tackled on too local\, or too technical a scale\, 
 such as algorithmic bias\, fairness and transparency. It does the essentia
 l work of demonstrating how they play out similarly across the world\, and
  how this problem cannot be tackled meaningfully by high-income countries 
 alone.\n\nBio:\nI am Associate Professor at the Tilburg Institute for Law\
 , Technology\, and Society (TILT)\, where I lead the ERC-funded Global Dat
 a Justice project\, seeking to understand the differerent perspectives wor
 ldwide on what constitutes just treatment through data technologies. My re
 search focuses on the use of new sources of digital data in governance and
  research around issues of human and economic development. I was previousl
 y a Marie Curie research fellow in the University of Amsterdam’s Interna
 tional Development faculty\, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Oxford I
 nternet Institute. I hold a DPhil in International Development from the In
 stitute of Development Studies\, University of Sussex.\n\nMore information
LOCATION:BC 420 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20420
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