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AUTOMATED PROFILING: MINDING THE MACHINE: ARTICLE 15 OF THE EC DATA PROTECTION DIRECTIVE AND AUTOMATED PROFILING

✍ Scribed by Lee A Bygrave

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Weight: 145 KB
Volume: 17
Category: Article
ISSN: 0267-3649
DOI: 10.1016/s0267-3649(01)00104-2

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✦ Synopsis

In this paper, an analysis is carried out of Art. 15 of the 1995 EC Directive on data protection. 1 Article 15 grants persons a qualified right not to be subject to certain forms of fully automated decision making. It is one of the most intriguing and innovative provisions of the data protection Directive yet also one of the most difficult to construe properly. The central issue taken up in this paper concerns the extent to which Art. 15 may have a meaningful impact on automated profiling practices.