“Data mining” and “datification” of reality: Sant’Anna School Professor of the Dirpolis Institute moderates panel at the 2020 Computer, Privacy and Data Protection International Conference on Data Protection and Artificial Intelligence
The 13th Computer, Privacy and Data Protection – CPDP 2020 International Conference on Data Protection and Artificial Intelligence will focus on the “datification” of reality and the classification of society in the age of Privacy and Artificial Intelligence.
Giovanni Comandé, Professor of Comparative Private Law at Sant’Anna School and the Director of the Dirpolis Institute Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Studies on Laws and Regulations (LiderLab), will participate in the Computer, Privacy and Data Protection – CPDP 2020 International Conference taking place on January 22-24, in Brussells. Comandé will serve as the moderator of the panel discussion “(Un)explainable AI correlations for incomputable data subject: a classifying society?” organized by the LiderLab on Wednesday, January 22.
The Panel’s speakers include Reuben Binns (ICO – The Information Commissioner’s Office), Stefano Braghin (IBM - Irlanda), Fosca Giannotti (Cnr Italia) and Eike Graef (DG Just – The Commission’s Directorate Generale for Justice and Consumers for EU).
“‘Data mining’ techniques analyze text and data for patterns extracting knowledge and information – said Giovanni Comandè – Data mining creates the ‘datification’ of reality. It blurs the borders between sensitive and non-sensitive data and between personal and non-personal data.” “Moreover, data mining generates a classifying society in which associative and probabilistic analytics transform any runaway data into silent and unexpected determinants of decisions. In this future society, the processing of a dataset does not relate any more to an individual but rather to the category/model in which the single data subject is classified.
Notwithstanding their ability to predict, data with deteriorating indirect connections to the targeted individual are often at the basis of these classifications. Therefore, we wonder how compliant they are with the GDPR - General Data Protection Regulation and if the GDPR can be useful over the totalizing approach of AI.”
Sant’Anna Photo Gallery: Giovanni Comandé
