Alexandra Tsvetkova, Director of LIBRe Foundation, took part in an event dedicated to personal data protection. The Round Table on „Future Scenarios of Personal Data Use in Commercial and Non-Commercial Settings“ took place on 18 February 2016 in Malta. It was organised by the Institute for Legal Informatics, Leibniz Universität Hannover within the MAPPING Project.
The MAPPING (Managing Alternatives for Privacy, Property and Internet Governance) Project aims to create an all-round and common understanding of the many and varied economic, social, legal and ethical aspects of the recent developments on the Internet, and their consequences for the individual and society at large.
The event consisted of four ninety minute discussions on predictive analytics use cases. Each case was briefly presented in a two-fold view that offered participants the opportunity to think about benefits as well as privacy drawbacks and side-effects. The participants were encouraged to actively participate in an engaging debate and discussion.
Use Case I - Predictive Analytics in the Health Sector - questioned the use of medical data for research. The debate tackled ethical issues, liability of medical staff, commercialisation, anonymization and security of data, and how to comply with and satisfy legal frameworks.
Use Case II – Auto-complete Function for Search Engines - opened a debate regarding factors that influence searches, challenges of auto-complete functions that may cause negativity bias and self-referential loop, and finally included a debate about privacy related issues of search history.
The afternoon session was dedicated to the use of personal and statistical data in crime prevention and investigation. Both Use Cases showed different examples of pre-crime forecasting. Use Case III – „Predictive Policing“ - presented an example from Lower Saxony. The final Use Case, „Software Solutions for Forensic and Analytic Applications“, demonstrated results of testing of evidence-based policing in a hypothetical city by using a real data sample from South Wales.
More about MAPPING project is available at: https://mappingtheinternet.eu/