[Gnso-epdp-team] On the legality of algorithmic decision making

Wed Feb 19 11:03:12 UTC 2020

What Volker said. To add another layer - I'm not sure that "confusing" is
where I land on this however - if anything it's rather convincing as to the
seriousness of ensuring balance. An EU or member state law may impart a
specific permission or authorization for such processing - or alternatively
make it a legal obligation for controllers in that jurisdiction to process
data in such instances, but the key point is that even where you make it
the 'law' to automate - if that automation is not in line with the
principles of proportionality, i.e. balance of the goal vs the impact to
the rights of those impacted and transparency (with many shades of Art 25),
then even that "legal basis" will fall.  All comes down to the fact that
data privacy is part of a basic human right, emanating specifically from
Art 8 of the ECHR, and can't be legislated away;  it's good (not to mention
of some relief) to see the Courts are absolutely willing to censure
governments who overstep their powers vis a vis data privacy.

I think we continue to be prudent in our own considerations to remember
that our policy will be built on considerably less stable foundations than
actual 'legislative' prerogative.

Alan

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On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 9:26 AM Volker Greimann <vgreimann at key-systems.net>
wrote:

> Yeah, but this is governments who have a significantly larger ability to
> take actions that may impact private citizens rights. We are private sector
> acting without any legal basis other than what GDPR permits. We should not
> compare what appleas can do to what oranges can.
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> Volker
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> Am 18.02.2020 um 19:36 schrieb Mark Svancarek (CELA) via Gnso-epdp-team:
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> I think it’s an interesting case.
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> From the article:
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> On Wednesday, the Hague district court agreed with that [by collating
> swaths of data on entire neighborhoods, SyRI contravened the right to a
> private life guaranteed under European Human Rights Law], saying that it
> was legitimate for the government to use technology to address fraud, but
> that SyRI was too invasive.
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> There is legal or similarly significant impact, so it’s clearly covered by
> Article 22, but the court still seems to have comfort with some level of
> automation. It’s confusing.
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> *From:* Gnso-epdp-team <gnso-epdp-team-bounces at icann.org>
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> decision making
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> Here is an interesting article for anyone here who still thinks that
> lawful balancing tests can be done by algorithms.
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> https://www.wired.com/story/europe-limits-government-algorithm-us-not-much/
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> Dr. Milton L Mueller
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> School of Public Policy
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