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Jonas Ledendal . Photo

Jonas Ledendal

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Post hoc interventions and the General Data Protection Regulation

Author

  • Martin Jönsson
  • Jonas Ledendal

Editor

  • Mattias Gunnemyr
  • Martin Jönsson

Summary, in English

Post hoc interventions rely on having access to certain personal data - such as the gender, age, ethnicity, and sexual orientation of the persons being evaluated - in order to detect and correct for prejudice. This brings these interventions into possible tension with pertinent data protection legislation, which might restrict the processing of said data. We discuss the compatibility of post hoc interventions, more specifically the Generalized Informed Interval Scale Update (GIIU), and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In particular, we investigate the legality of applying GIIU to datasets which haven't been collected with consent from the data subjects that their data is to be processed by GIIU. We conclude that many such applications are in compliance with the GDPR, but others, specifically those where the processing includes special categories of personal data that is considered sensitive, might not be.

Department/s

  • Department of Business Law
  • LU Profile Area: Human rights
  • Department of Philosophy
  • CogComlab
  • Lund University Information Quality Research Group (LUIQ)
  • Theoretical Philosophy

Publishing year

2023

Language

English

Pages

93-112

Publication/Series

Post Hoc Interventions : Prospects and Problems

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Filosofiska institutionen, Lunds universitet

Topic

  • Law (excluding Law and Society)

Keywords

  • GDPR
  • post hoc invervention

Status

Published

Research group

  • CogComlab
  • Lund University Information Quality Research Group (LUIQ)

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-91-89415-06-7
  • ISBN: 978-91-89415-61-4
  • ISBN: 978-91-89415-62-1