The implementation of Automated Decision-Making systems is increasingly part of everyday life, and their use is omnipresent.

On May 17, the Future of Privacy Forum launched a comprehensive Report analyzing case law under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applied to real-life cases involving Automated Decision Making (ADM). The Report is informed by extensive research covering more than 70 Court judgments, decisions from Data Protection Authorities (DPAs), specific Guidance and other policy documents issued by regulators.

What you will learn:

You will understand how critical elements of Article 22 GDPR are being interpreted (“solely” automated, and “legal or similarly significant effects”),

You will explore how DPAs perceive controllers’ transparency obligations and how broad is the reading of the fairness principle to avoid situations of discrimination.

You will find out whether the conditions for valid consent in cases of profiling and ADM are strict.

You will see what DPAs expect from controllers in cases of automated decisions that do not trigger Article 22 GDPR.

This training will be a live virtual session. Please note the session start time is CET timezone.

Your Automated Decision Making Under the GDPR Training Faculty:

Dr. Rob van Eijk, Managing Director for Europe.

Rob van Eijk serves as the Future of Privacy Forum’s Managing Director for Europe. In this role, van Eijk implements FPF’s agenda in Europe, overseeing its day-to-day operations, and managing relationships with stakeholders in the industry, government, academia, and civil society. Van Eijk is a technologist with an M.Sc. from the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Leiden University, and a Ph.D. from Leiden Law School, Leiden University, focusing on online advertising (real-time bidding).

Prior to serving in this position, van Eijk worked at the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) as Senior Supervision Officer and Technologist for nearly 10 years. He represented the Dutch DPA in international meetings such as the Technology Expert group of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and as a technical expert in court. He also represented the European Data Protection Authorities, assembled as the Article 29 Working Party, in the multi-stakeholder negotiations of the World Wide Web Consortium on Do Not Track.

Christina Michelakaki, Policy Fellow for Global Privacy, Future of Privacy Forum

Christina Michelakaki is a Policy Fellow for Global Privacy at the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF). She is following global trends in data protection and privacy laws around the world but also focuses on European and national case law, recent academic research, guidelines, and decisions from the European Data Protection Board and national Data Protection Authorities and actively monitors the activity of EU institutions around privacy and data protection, including Communications and Proposals of the European Commission and legislative reports from the European Parliament and the Council of the EU. She has been conducting extensive research on Data Protection by Design and by Default and was one of the principal authors of an FPF Report pertaining to this matter. Her research interests also revolve around fundamental rights and Artificial Intelligence.

Christina has a legal background and holds an LL.M on Information Technology, Media & Communications Law from the London School of Economics (LSE) (2022, London), where she wrote her thesis on Automated decision-making and the “right to an explanation” under the GDPR. She is an EU qualified lawyer and a member of the Thessaloniki Bar Association in Greece.

FPF Training: Automated Decision Making Under the GDPR | November 9, 2023