LOOKING BEYOND THE EU DATA STRATEGY: WHERE NEXT FOR DATA USE AND REGULATION?

CPDP 2023 - DAY 1
AREA 42 GRAND - SESSION 7 (17:15)

Organised by Ada Lovelace Institute (UK)
Moderator: Valentina Pavel, Ada Lovelace Institute (UK)
Speakers: Adriana Nugter, Independent consultant and author of
Transborder Flow of Personal Data within the EC (NL);
Katarzyna Szymielewicz, Panoptykon Foundation (PL);
Inge Graef, Tilburg University (NL);
Theresa Stadler, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) (CH)

Despite the new EU digital package of regulation nearly completely
adopted, many fundamental questions still remain open. Current regulation does not go far enough in terms of challenging the dominant business
model based on data exploitation. At the same time, large companies gain
more and more power from drawing inferences about people, deriving insights based on information that might be about you. This deepens power
and information asymmetries, brings novel risks from inference predictions, and opens questions whether we might need a paradigm shift to
data regulation.
Central to the Ada Lovelace Institute’s work to ‘rethink data’ is the question: ‘What is a more ambitious vision for data use and regulation that
can deliver a positive shift in the digital ecosystem towards people and
society?’ This is explored in the report publication on Rethinking data and
rebalancing digital power, looking at four areas of change across infrastructure, governance, institutions and public participation.
The aim of this panel is to reflect critically on fundamental questions that
are left unaddressed by existing regulation and use of data, as well as on
potential opportunities that can prepare the ground for more ambitious
transformations in data-driven systems that benefit people and society.
• What are some of the fundamental questions we need to tackle, beyond the EU Data Strategy?
• How can we challenge the wider socio-technical and economic infrastructures that enable the vast collection, management, and sharing
of data?
• At the confluence between data and AI, do we need a new paradigm
for how we understand data processing and identification in light of
inferential analytics?
• How is the economy of incentives changing in digital markets with the
adoption of the new EU regulatory package?