How should automated profiling be regulated?

Projektinformationen

PROFILE

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 748514

DOI

10.3030/748514

Das Projekt endete am 15 Februar 2019

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 30 März 2017

Startdatum 1 Januar 2018

Enddatum 31 Dezember 2019

Finanziert unter

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Gesamtkosten

€ 172 800,00

EU-Beitrag

€ 172 800,00

Koordiniert durch

VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL
Belgium

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - PROFILE (How should automated profiling be regulated?)

Berichtszeitraum: 2018-01-01 bis 2019-12-31

Zusammenfassung vom Kontext und den Gesamtzielen des Projekts

Profiling is a type of algorithmic decision-making that involves automated processing of personal or other data to develop profiles that can be used to make decisions about people. Some companies use thousands of data points to take automated and opaque decisions: online shops can sell the same good to different consumers for different prices. Lenders can set interest rates for individual consumers, or refuse to lend to them. Insurers can adjust premiums to individual consumers, or deny them insurance.

Profiling advances important goals, such as efficiency and economic growth. But profiling may threaten values the law aims to protect, and goals it aims to achieve. For instance, profiling can lead to unfair or even illegal discrimination. This project examines profile-based price and service differentiation. Current law regarding profiling is unclear and may fail to protect important values.

The overarching research question for the project is: to protect human rights, while considering the particularities of different sectors, should the law be amended because of automated profiling, and if so: how?

Arbeit, die ab Beginn des Projekts bis zum Ende des durch den Bericht erfassten Berichtszeitraums geleistet wurde, und die wichtigsten bis dahin erzielten Ergebnisse

The researcher has analysed the application of discrimination law to automated profiling and online price discrimination. He has also analysed literature on automated decision-making, profiling, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. The researcher has presented and discussed his research at international conferences, for instance in Oxford, Washington, and Beijing. He has published several papers based on the research. See:
https://www.ivir.nl/employee/zuiderveen-borgesius/
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1896949
https://twitter.com/FBorgesius

Fortschritte, die über den aktuellen Stand der Technik hinausgehen und voraussichtliche potenzielle Auswirkungen (einschließlich der bis dato erzielten sozioökonomischen Auswirkungen und weiter gefassten gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen des Projekts)

The project aims to develop principles for policymakers to regulate profile-based price and service differentiation.

Picture-Frederik-Zuiderveen-Borgesius