The Brussels Laboratory for Data Protection & Privacy Impact Assessments, (d.pia.lab) is pleased to announce the third seminar in a series called "Non-objective risk to a right". Join us on Friday 22nd November at 3pm for a hybrid event with Dr Felix Bieker, who will investigate the notions of a risk-based approach in the GDPR and AI Act.
Felix is a legal researcher at ULD, the data protection authority of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany. He works on structural aspects of data processing, platforms and power at Plattform Privatheit. Felix wrote the monograph "The Right to Data Protection: Individual and Structural Dimensions of Data Protection in EU Law" and co-edited a special issue of Internet Policy Review on feminist data protection.
The series is dedicated to the project "Risk as a Non-Objective Phenomenon: Integrating Cognitive, Legal, and Social Science into the Concept of Risk in European Data Protection Law".
This project aims to deepen the understanding of the non-objective nature of risk, including the 'risk to a right.' It analyses the implications of this non-objectivity in legal practice, especially regarding fundamental rights and assessment participants. We will explore potential impacts, questioning this characteristic from various perspectives, such as the risk-based approach (courts and DPAs), the Science, Technology, and Society (STS) critique of risk, and risk perception studies. By questioning the possibility of an objective risk assessment, the project provides new insights into the non-objective nature of these evaluations.
Format: 40 minutes for presentation followed by ca. one hour open for discussions.
The seminar is free but registration is mandatory.