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Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Colloquium, University of Tübingen
Dr. Maël Pégny (Tübingen): Machine Learning and Privacy: What's Really New?
Abstract: "In this presentation, I will try to capture the new challenges for the respect of privacy raised by machine learning. I will use both a (very) long term perspective inspired by anthropological work on the effects of cognitive techniques and the origins of writing, and a short-term perspective based on comparisons with other types of algorithms and data treatment. I will try to show that machine learning has very specific and fundamental effects, which include challenging some of the basic categories on which our legal data protection regimen was built."
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Colloquium, University of Tübingen
Dr. Maël Pégny (Tübingen): Machine Learning and Privacy: What's Really New?
Abstract: "In this presentation, I will try to capture the new challenges for the respect of privacy raised by machine learning. I will use both a (very) long term perspective inspired by anthropological work on the effects of cognitive techniques and the origins of writing, and a short-term perspective based on comparisons with other types of algorithms and data treatment. I will try to show that machine learning has very specific and fundamental effects, which include challenging some of the basic categories on which our legal data protection regimen was built."
