EU Data Protection Supervisor Announces Creation of New EU Digital Ethics Board
“To retain the value of human dignity and prevent individuals [from] being reduced to mere data subjects,” European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Giovanni Buttarelli urged the EU and other international organizations to promote an “ethical dimension in future technologies” and…
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announced the creation of a new EU data protection ethics board to help define new digital ethics, an EDPS news release said Friday. “The future technological environment will be made up of an interdependent ecosystem of legislators, corporations, IT developers and individuals” who are equally responsible for “shaping it,” Buttarelli said. “Any imbalance of power risks its sustainability,” he said. “The continued, massive and indiscriminate collection of personal information by governments and businesses risks killing the golden goose,” Buttarelli said. Buttarelli also urged passage of future-oriented laws that redress power imbalances and modernize data protection frameworks and said organizations should be accountable and have a new ethical approach to handling personal data they collect, which includes creating codes and policies that safeguard human dignity. He also asked the IT industry to design privacy-conscious technology.