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8 days to go! The #TechLitigationDatabase will include cases on controversial new technologies such as Glukhin v Russia, where the ECtHR condemned the use of facial recognition technology in identifying & arresting Dmitry Glukhin: a significant win for the right to privacy.

7 days to go! @DemkovaSimona, Assistant Professor at Leiden University and National Rapporteur for the #TechLitigationDatabase on its benefits for fundamental rights:

6 days to go! In another landmark ruling, the Hague District Court found that the Dutch SyRI system violated Article 8 of the ECHR. The #TechLitigationDatabase will delve into how new tech impacts various areas, from criminal justice & asylum to social benefits & tax enforcement.

5 days to go! Sebastian Björnberg, PhD Student of Law at Umeå University on the value of the #TechLitigationDatabase, which aims to aid the work of lawyers, legal scholars and civil society actors on a global scale:

4 days to go! In this landmark judgment, the Supreme Court of Canada sided with prison inmate Jeffrey Ewert, finding that the risk assessment tools used in some Canadian prisons could lead to biased outcomes. One of the many cases you will find on the #TechLitigationDatabase!

3 days to go! Moritz Schramm Moritz Schramm, Associate Researcher Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and National Rapporteur for the #TechLitigationDatabase, on the value of caselaw:

2 days to go! New tech & automated systems are increasingly employed within public administration. The #TechLitigationDatabase aims to shed light on instances like Republic v Joe Mucheru and others, as these legal challenges are crucial to the protection of fundamental rights.

1 day to go! The landmark Schufa Holding case on credit scoring provided the very first judgment on the concept of automated decision-making. The #TechLitigationDatabase will help us understand how judges are defining this concept worldwide.

Useful resource released by the AFAR (congrats Francesca Palmiotto and team)

An invaluable resource for everyone interested in automated decision making! AFAR good job 👏🏻👏🏻

🚨 China's first case on ADM A Chinese Internet Court rules against a platform for the fabrication of a lawyer's info using automated decision-making 🙏 Wenlong Li for adding the case to the @AFARproject Tech Litigation Database tech-litigation.com/case/china-gua… #privacy #AI #ADM

🚨 New Publication Alert! In CLSR, AFAR researcher Francesca Palmiotto examines the legal challenges of digitalising asylum procedures, questioning how rights like privacy and data protection can enhance fairness in RSD. Openly accessible here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🎉 Registration OPEN! Join Prof. Cathryn Costello & Dr.Francesca Palmiotto for a panel discussion on "Algorithmic Fairness in the Asylum Process" on the 2nd day of the 30th Anniversary Conference of Universität Potsdam Human Rights Centre! 🆓 Free entry! 🔗 tinyurl.com/tf78abvb

New article out on the practice, ethics and legal issues of mobile phone read-outs in Danish asylum practice in Association for Computing Machinery w/Trine Rask Nielsen & @najaholten - part of our Nordic Asylum Law & Data Lab lån and cofunded by Nordic Council and AFAR Open access here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

📢 New article out! 📱💡 Co-authored by AFAR researcher Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, the paper in Association for Computing Machinery explores the practice, ethics, and legal challenges of using mobile phone data in asylum decisions in Denmark. 🔗 Open access: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

👉Live on the 2nd day of the 30th Anniversary Conference of Universität Potsdam Human Rights Centre as our researcher Francesca Palmiotto talks about “Algorithmic Fairness in the Asylum Process”. #AFAR

"The law needs to be braver and bolder in setting tangible limits to AI systems" AFAR fellow Francesca Palmiotto discusses the critical topics of AI accuracy, trustworthiness & procedural fairness on the JUST-AI Jean Monnet Podcast. 📻 Full episode here: youtube.com/watch?v=CIWZt8…

Thrilled to share that last night, in Berlin, Ida Reihani and I won the AxelSpringer #AwardForChange Journalistic Piece of the Year for our story on Iran’s funding of gender-affirmative surgeries. Thank you to BI, the jury, everyone who voted, Kit Gillet, and our brave sources.

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