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Workshop ”Child-Robot Interaction & Child’s Fundamental Rights”

8th of March 2021

#savethedate

Workshop on Child-Robot Interaction & Child’s Fundamental Rights Workshop in conjunction with the ACM International Conference of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2021)

8 March 2021 (online) 13:00 – 16:30 MTS

Denise Amram will present the paper

J. Albo-Canals, D. Amram, K. Kaesling, J. Martinez Otero, R. G. Pensa et al., Children’s Rights in Online Environments with Social Robots: The use case study of CORP: A Collaborative Online Robotics Platform, HRI, 2021

Info and registration: https://sites.google.com/view/robotschildrights/home

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THE PROPOSAL OF DATA SCIENTISTS: GIVE MORE DATA, AWARENESS AND CONTROL TO INDIVIDUAL CITIZENS, AND THEY WILL HELP COVID-19 CONTAINMENT

Give more Data, awareness and control to individual citizens, and they will help COVID-19 containment. These are the conclusions of a study recently published in Ethics and Information Technology by a group of national and international experts, among whom Giovanni Comandé and Francesca Chiaramonte of the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies.

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WATCH AGAIN – Third SoBigData++ Awareness Panel Medical Device Regulation and Digital Health: Problems and Perspectives

The Medical Device Regulation (MDR) is critical for digital health (DH) firms.

While businesses increasingly leverage the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI), from wearables for health monitoring and self-care apps to machine learning analysis of medical images, compliance with the MDR becomes a top priority: many DH /AI devices will need to be certified as medical devices (MD).

However, this is not the only legal challenge for operators. DH / AI tools also require GDPR compliance and may pose critical product liability concerns. At the same time, such devices have the potential of disrupting traditional NHS governance models, but existing institutional arrangements seem to prevent the exploitation of their full potential. The webinar aims to clarify these aspects for the benefit of manufacturers, public health officials, counsels, and lawyers.

15 febbraio 2021

Agenda
15.00 – 15.15 Medical Devices (or not) in the Age of Human Enhancement?
Prof. Dr. Paul Quinn, VUB
15.15 – 15.30 Data Protection for DH/AI Devices: the Search for Standards and Certifications
Dr. Giulia Schneider, SSSA
15.30 – 15.45 How MD Product Liability is Poised to Develop With the Rise of DH and AI
Dr. Andrea Parziale, SSSA
15.45 – 16.00 Advancing Digital Health Governance: Ethical and Policy Aspects
Dr. Alessandro Blasimme, ETH
16.00- 16.15 Issues in Translational Biases in the Digital Health Sector
Prof. Dr. Giovanni Comandè, SSSA
16.15 – 16.30 Discussion (Q&A)

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WEBINAR ABOUT THE SEASONAL SCHOOL ”THE RESPONSIBLE DATA SOCIETY: RULES AND METHODS FOR AI AND DATA ANALYTICS, BEYOND PRIVACY” – WATCH AGAIN

WEBINAR ABOUT THE SEASONAL SCHOOL ”THE RESPONSIBLE DATA SOCIETY: RULES AND METHODS FOR AI AND DATA ANALYTICS, BEYOND PRIVACY”

5th of February 2021

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OUT NOW: Manifesto paper “Give more data, awareness and control to individual citizens, and they will help COVID-19 containment”

The manifesto paper “Give more data, awareness and control to individual citizens, and they will help COVID-19 containment” has been published on the journal “Ethics and Information Technology”.

Abstract
The rapid dynamics of COVID-19 calls for quick and efective tracking of virus transmission chains and early detection of outbreaks, especially in the “phase 2” of the pandemic, when lockdown and other restriction measures are progressively withdrawn, in order to avoid or minimize contagion resurgence. For this purpose, contact-tracing apps are being proposed for large scale adoption by many countries. A centralized approach, where data sensed by the app are all sent to a nationwide server, raises concerns about citizens’ privacy and needlessly strong digital surveillance, thus alerting us to the need to minimize personal data collection and avoiding location tracking. We advocate the conceptual advantage of a decentralized approach, where both contact and location data are collected exclusively in individual citizens’ “personal data stores”, to be shared separately and selectively (e.g., with a backend system, but possibly also with other citizens), voluntarily, only when the citizen has tested positive for COVID-19, and with a privacy preserving level of granularity. This approach better protects the personal sphere of citizens and afords multiple benefts: it allows for detailed information gathering for infected people in a privacy-preserving fashion; and, in turn this enables both contact tracing, and, the early detection of outbreak hotspots
on more fnely-granulated geographic scale. The decentralized approach is also scalable to large populations, in that only the data of positive patients need be handled at a central level. Our recommendation is two-fold. First to extend existing decentralized architectures with a light touch, in order to manage the collection of location data locally on the device, and allow the user to share spatio-temporal aggregates—if and when they want and for specifc aims—with health authorities, for instance. Second, we favour a longer-term pursuit of realizing a Personal Data Store vision, giving users the opportunity to contribute to collective good in the measure they want, enhancing self-awareness, and cultivating collective eforts for rebuilding society.

Click here to read the Manifesto Give more data, awareness and control to individual citizens, and they will help COVID-19 containment | SpringerLink

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Third SoBigData++ Awareness Panel Medical Device Regulation and Digital Health: Problems and Perspectives

The Third SoBigData++ Awareness Panel Medical Device Regulation and Digital Health:  Problems and Perspectives will take place on-line on 15th of February 2021 at 3 p.m.

The Medical Device Regulation (MDR) is critical for digital health (DH) firms. While businesses increasingly leverage the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI), from wearables for health monitoring and self-care apps to machine learning analysis of medical images, compliance with the MDR becomes a top priority: many DH /AI devices will need to be certified as medical devices (MD). However, this is not the only legal challenge for operators. DH / AI tools also require GDPR compliance and may pose critical product liability concerns. At the same time, such devices have the potential of disrupting traditional NHS governance models, but existing institutional arrangements seem to prevent the exploitation of their full potential. The webinar aims to clarify these aspects for the benefit of manufacturers, public health officials, counsels, and lawyers.

Agenda

15.00 – 15.15 Medical Devices (or not) in the Age of Human Enhancement?

Prof. Dr. Paul Quinn, VUB

15.15 – 15.30 Data Protection for DH/AI Devices: the Search for Standards and Certifications

Dr. Giulia Schneider, SSSA

15.30 – 15.45 How MD Product Liability is Poised to Develop With the Rise of DH and AI

Dr. Andrea Parziale, SSSA

15.45 – 16.00 Advancing Digital Health Governance: Ethical and Policy Aspects

Dr. Alessandro Blasimme, ETH

16.00- 16.15 Issues in Translational Biases in the Digital Health Sector

Prof. Dr. Giovanni Comandè, SSSA

16.15 – 16.30 Discussion (Q&A)

Join us on Webex:

https://sssup.webex.com/sssup/j.php?MTID=m4b2e47e0dff57914b70dee763c7e8831

For info: segrliderlab@santannapisa.it

ph. +39 050883533

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LEADS PROJECT -15 POSITIONS IN EUROPE – EXPRESSION OF INTERESTS

Bridging the gap between data science and law

The emergence of data science has raised a wide range of concerns regarding its compatibility with the law, creating the need for experts who combine a deep knowledge of both data science and legal matters. The EU-funded LeADS project will train early-stage researchers to become legality attentive data scientists (LeADS), the new interdisciplinary profession aiming to address the aforementioned need. These scientists will be experts in both data science and law, able to maintain innovative solutions within the realm of law and help expand the legal frontiers according to innovation needs. The project will create the theoretical framework and the practical implementation template of a common language for co-processing and joint-controlling basic notions for both data scientists and jurists. LeADS will also produce a comparative and interdisciplinary lexicon.

Overall LEADs envisage to open 15 positions for ESRs and hopes to enable all ESR to enrol in a PhD program.

In the file attached are listed the position envisaged at each Beneficiary with corresponding contacts for further information and Expression of interest

ERS’ POSITIONS

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EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST EXPIRED: CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR THE PROJECT “PREDICTIVE JUSTICE”

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST EXPIRED

The LiderLab of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and EMbeDS are seeking applications from candidates who can make outstanding contributions to the design, development and benchmarking of a Predictive Justice platform.

As part of the activities of the LiderLab and EMbeDS, the Predictive Justice project aims to create the first fully automated environment for the analysis of the judicial system — using the state-of-art of NLP models trained on legal documents. The platform will be used to analyze specific case studies, to create predictive algorithms for reconstructing the underlying legal reasoning, explain the reasoning behind each decision for different stakeholders, identify possible trends/biases, simplify legal tasks and propose reforms of the judicial system based on best practices.

You will work in a highly motived interdisciplinary team (academics, judges, lawyers, startup entrepreneurs), contributing to the development of automated tools for text classification, named entity recognition, anonymization and explainable machine learning in the legal sector.

Successful candidates will have experience in statistics, natural language processing, text mining and machine learning lifecycle management.

The 1-year research contract could be renewed, unfolding in a longer collaboration, and/or lead to a PhD project. Interested individuals should send inquiries to g.comande@santannapisa.it and segrliderlab@santannapisa.it, including a cover letter motivating their interest and a CV(3-page maximum).

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Disclaimer: this is not yet a job vacancy advertisement. Based on the expressions of interest, the Sant’Anna School for Advanced Studies will determine whether or not to offer the positions and their number.

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14th International Conference Computers, Privacy and Data Protection – CPDP 2021 Enforcing Rights in a Changing World

14th International Conference Computers, Privacy and Data Protection – CPDP 2021 Enforcing Rights in a Changing World

#SavetheDate 27-29.1.2021 Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference #CPDP2021 goes fully online.

Two panels from LIDER Lab, DIRPOLIS Institute have been selected.

  1. Children’s Rights in the Digital Environment: Risks, Opportunities, and Responsibilities, organized and moderated by #DeniseAmram.
  2. Exposure Notification during the THE COVID-19 Pandemic: reconsiling fundamental rights and public health with legality attentive Data Science, co-organized by #LEaDS H2020 Project coordinated by #GiovanniComandè in collaboration with NIST.

Further info https://www.cpdpconferences.org/

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CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR THE PROJECT “PREDICTIVE JURISPRUDENCE: AI FOR JUSTICE AND SOCIETY”

SCULA SUPERIORE DI STUDI SANTA ANNA PISA PHOTO © 2011 - FABIO MUZZI

CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR THE PROJECT “PREDICTIVE JURISPRUDENCE: AI FOR JUSTICE AND SOCIETY”

The EMbeDS of the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies and LiderLab are seeking applications from candidates who can make outstanding contributions to the design, development and benchmarking of a Predictive Jurisprudence platform.

For information on the Call

Contacts:segrliderlab@santannapisa.it, phone: +39050883533