These tutorials show how to use the already implemented libraries for the anonymization and antidiscrimination of data sets: - Anonymization library:...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being deployed in missions that are increasingly critical for human life. To build trust in AI and avoid an algorithm-based authoritarian...

An ever-increasing number of decisions affecting our lives are made by algorithms. For this reason, algorithmic transparency is becoming a pressing need: automated decisions...

4th SoBigData++ Awareness Panel Webinar Programme Decentralized anonymization of mobility data Speaker: Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia)...

The role of decisions made by machine learning algorithms in our lives is ever increasing. In reaction to this phenomenon, the European General Data Protection Regulation...

Accountability is the ability to provide good reasons in order to explain and to justify actions, decisions, and policies for a (hypothetical) forum of persons or...

This webinar, which took place on 6 July 2021, focused on the interplay between legal data and data science. The webinar, entitled ‘Legal Materials as Big Data: (algo)Rithms to...

This webinar, which took place on 10 November 2020, was aimed at exploring the theme of data protection and intellectual property issues in platforms. The first speaker was...

Anonymization for privacy-preserving data publishing, also known as statistical disclosure control (SDC), can be viewed under the lens of the permutation model. According to...

This article describes an emergent logic of accumulation in the networked sphere, ‘surveillance capitalism,’ and considers its implications for ‘information civilization.’ The...

The rise of “Big Data” analytics in the private sector poses new challenges for privacy advocates. Through its reliance on existing data and predictive analysis to create...

Our society is being shaped in a non-negligible way by the technological advances of recent years, especially in information and communications technologies (ICTs). The...

Informational self-determination refers to the right or ability of individuals to exercise personal control over the collection, use and disclosure of their personal data by...

Information technology allows us to generate, store, and process huge quantities of data. Search engines, satellites, sensor networks, scientists, security agencies,...

Federated learning is a decentralized machine learning technique that aggregates partial models trained by a set of clients on their own private data to obtain a global model....

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