News and Research articles on Fundamental rightsThis piece examines the urgent need for a harmonised approach to balancing the rights to freedom of expression and information with the right to personal data protection under the EU legal system.
The AI Act will require high-risk AI systems to comply with harmonised technical standards, including for the protection of fundamental rights: what problems might arise when mixing technical standards and fundamental rights?
An analysis of the EU data protection legislation and the AI Act proposal to assess, in light of the principle of proportionality, whether or not law enforcement authorities should be prohibited from using these technologies in "real time".
Considering the rise of numerous smart city projects that impact fundamental rights in modern cities, this paper calls for the need to assess their cumulative effects on fundamental rights of city dwellers.
Despite criticism, this charter "is unique in reaching out to engage with much broader audiences than any other digital charter did before," say digital policy advisers von Weizsäcker and Schräpel.
As the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation seems to approach fast, the Court of Justice of the European Union firmly asserts the fundamental rights dimension of EU personal data protection law.
The recently-released report of the French Conseil d’Etat emphasises the ‘two faces’ of the internet vis-à-vis fundamental rights, and calls for fifty ‘digitally-suited’ legal measures. Comment by Francesca Musiani, member of the French Commission on Rights in the Digital Age.
The European Court of Justice today decided against the EU legislator and declared the data retention directive of 2006 null and void. A historic judgement, many parties say, and it means that implementations have to be rolled back all over Europe.
The EU Data Retention Directive - which requests the retention of communication data of EU Citizens - is “as a whole incompatible” with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, determines Europe's top lawyer. What happens now?