Put a lawyer and computer scientists together and see what they come up with!
That’s the challenge taken up by Jessica Eynard, researcher at IRIT, University Paul Sabatier Toulouse 3 in France, and the company Huawei based in Munich.
For several weeks now and thanks to several secondments funded by the DUCA project, the researchers involved have been working together to deploy and validate a general framework for controlling the use of data, while protecting the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals. Several use cases have been identified, involving various technologies such as artificial intelligence, the cloud or privacy-enhancing technologies. The legal texts that can be mobilized have been identified, and in-depth work is being carried out to ensure that these technologies are deployed in full compliance with the law. This involves studying recent texts (e.g. the Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2023 on harmonised rules on fair access to and use of data – Data Act) as well as texts that have not yet been published in the Official Journal of the European Union (e.g. the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence – Artificial Intelligence Act).
This work is therefore still in progress. While it still raises many questions, one thing is certain: the contributions of the two disciplines involved are essential to meeting the societal challenges of our time. For this reason, the work we have begun must be continued and encouraged!