The Brussels Laboratory for Data Protection & Privacy Impact Assessments, (d.pia.lab) is pleased to announce the fourth seminar in a series called "Non-objective risk to a right".
At the next seminar, Prof. Gianclaudio Malgieri and Prof. Cristiana Santos will present their recent paper on the assessment of the severities of impact on fundamental rights. It investigates what the impacts on fundamental rights are, proposes a way to assess the severity of the impact on fundamental rights, and proposes a way to overcome the main limits of the risk-based approach and right-based approach to digital regulations. The paper is available here.
Prof. Gianclaudio Malgieri is an Associate Professor of Law & Technology and a Board Member at eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies. His fields of research and teaching are data protection law, privacy, AI regulation, digital law, consumer protection in the digital market, data sustainability, and intellectual property law.
Prof. Cristiana Santos, Assistant Professor in Law and Technology. She holds a joint international Doctoral Degree in Law, Science and Technology (University of Bologna) and a Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science (University of Luxembourg). The goal of her scholarship deals with finding evidence to assess compliance (and non-compliance) with European secondary laws (ePDirective, GDPR, DSA, DMA), and possible risks and harms deriving from companies’ practices.
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: 30 minutes for presentation followed by ca. one hour open for discussions.
The seminar is free but registration is mandatory.