The Right under EU Law to Object to Automated Decisions Based on Profiling - A Right for Australia?

The Right under EU Law to Object to Automated Decisions Based on Profiling - A Right for Australia?

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Professor Lee Bygrave

Article 22 of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation 2016 provides persons with a qualified right not be subject to fully automated decisions based on profiling when the decisions incur legal effects or similarly significant consequences for the persons subject to them. The seminar outlines the contours of this right and assesses its utility and likely impact, particularly in an era when decision making is increasingly the result of computer algorithms fed by ‘Big Data' analytics. The seminar concludes with a discussion of whether the right ought to be replicated in Australian law.
Lee A. Bygrave is Professor at the Department of Private Law, University of Oslo, where he is also Director of the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law. For the past three decades, Lee has been engaged in researching and developing regulatory policy for information and communications technology (ICT). He has functioned as expert advisor on ICT regulation for numerous organisations, including the European Commission, Nordic Council of Ministers, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and Norwegian Government. He currently heads a major five-year research project on legal aspects of cybersecurity - ‘Security in Internet Governance and Networks: Analysing the Law' (SIGNAL). He is currently co-editing and co-authoring a comprehensive Commentary on the EU General Data Protection Regulation, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2018.
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