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FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS IMPLICATIONS OF BIG DATA

December 8, 2016

Frederike Kaltheuner@fre8de8rike

frederike@privacyinternational.org

“Big Data” - myth and technologyIt is at the interplay of these that fundamental rights implications originate.

How much space would the filing cabinets of the Stasi and the NSA use up, if the NSA would print out their 5 Zettabytes?

NSA vs STASI

https://apps.opendatacity.de/stasi-vs-nsa/english.html

NSA vs STASI

How much space would the filing cabinets of the Stasi and the NSA use up, if the NSA would print out their 5 Zettabytes?

Myth: a single online marketing company or “Big Data” did not

influence the election

privacy, data protection

(1) highly sensitive information can be inferred from seemingly mundane and often publicly accessible data

anti-discrimination

(2) predictions / inferences are likely to be inaccurate or systematically biased

accountability, transparency

(2) information is power

law enforcement

Myth: “the underlying, erroneous assumption that advanced mathematical and computational power is both necessary and sufficient to reduce crime.”

(RAND report on predictive policing)

Assessing the “risk” associated with an individual—whether of committing future crimes or of being a suspect in past crimes—is highly contentious and fraught with personal privacy concerns.

Publicly accessible data can be used to make highly privacy-invasive inferences (SOCMINT) about individuals and crowds.

Biased and incomplete data is inevitable - more data is not always better data.

Virtually all predictive policing tools are proprietary software sold to departments by private law enforcement vendors.

Frederike Kaltheuner@fre8de8rike

frederike@privacyinternational.org