Data Protection and Privacy The Age of Intelligent Machines

The subjects of Privacy and Data Protection are more relevant than ever with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becoming enforceable in May 2018.This volume brings together papers that offer conceptual analyses, highlight issues, propose solutions, and discuss practices regarding privacy and data protection. It is one of the results of the tenth annual International Conference on Computers, Privacy and Data Protection, CPDP 2017, held in Brussels in January 2017.The book explores Directive 95/46/EU and the GDPR moving from a market framing to a 'treaty-base games frame', the GDPR requirements regarding machine learning, the need for transparency in automated decision-making systems to warrant against wrong decisions and protect privacy, the riskrevolution in EU data protection law, data security challenges of Industry 4.0, (new) types of data introduced in the GDPR, privacy design implications of conversational agents, and reasonable expectations of data protection in Intelligent Orthoses.This interdisciplinary book was written while the implications of the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 were beginning to become clear. It discusses open issues, and daring and prospective approaches. It will serve as an insightful resource for readers with an interest in computers, privacy and data protection.

Ronald Leenes is Professor of Regulation by Technology at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, Tilburg University. Rosamunde van Brakel is Researcher and Doctoral Candidate at the Law, Science, Technology & Society Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.Serge Gutwirth is Professor of Human Rights, Comparative Law and Legal Theory and Co-Director of the Law, Science, Technology & Society Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.Paul De Hert is full Professor and Co-Director of the Law, Science, Technology & Society Research Group and of the Brussel Privacy Hub, Vrije Universiteit Brussel; and Associated Professor at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, Tilburg University.