European Digital Identity Wallet
In the context of the COVID pandemic, digitalisation has become more relevant than ever before. The digitalisation of almost every sector has become the most prominent solution to fight the spread of COVID-19. Social distancing has increased the need to be able to use services, identify and authenticate online. Nevertheless, the digitalisation of so many services has also engaged complex data protection considerations, given the entirely online exchange of a substantial volume of […]
Assessing the ethical impact of new standards for more effective crisis management
The Ethical Impact Assessment (EIA) is a systematic approach to mapping information flows, identifying challenges and opportunities and providing a set of recommendations on best practices for prioritising ethics and societal values during the design, development, and implementation of technologies, products, standards, and processes. The analysis of the ethical and societal issues of (pre)standardisation processes […]
AI for good: Recommendations for enhancing legal frameworks for AI and robotics
Human genomics, human enhancement, artificial intelligence and robotics offer benefits for both individuals and society. However, it is essential to consider the ethics and human rights implications of these technologies to ensure successful and sustainable research outputs. The SIENNA project worked to ensure that human rights, fundamental freedoms, and ethical values are respected in the design, […]
Webinar: The role of ethical AI in safeguarding children – A CESIUM case study
What does your role involve in Lincolnshire Police? I am a Detective Inspector, managing areas of ‘vulnerability’. I am the Police safeguarding hub manager, responsible for managing Public Protection Notification (PPN) referrals to partner agencies. I oversee child exploitation, child abuse and adult vulnerability, and I am the tactical lead for ‘missing persons’, and the […]
The future of ethics assessment: SATORI’s European standard
How do we embed ethics in innovation? As innovations do not follow a fixed recipe, their development or usemay raise ethical concerns or unintended consequences. A successful innovation must, therefore, address ethical impacts at an early stage through an ethics impact assessment and/or the support of an ethics committee. Consequently, within the development of emerging […]
The practice of ethics at Trilateral: how we make ethics meaningful in technology design, policy and research
At Trilateral, we strive for an approach that puts ethics into action, by grounding it in our work in technology development, governance, and beyond. Ethics presented as high-level principles and values can make it seem abstract and too dissociated from the practical world. Though ethical norms such as fairness, dignity, autonomy can provide general guidance, […]
Advancing Standardisation and Interoperability for Effective Crisis Management
Trilateral Research joins twenty-two partners from across the EU in the newly launched three-year Horizon 2020 STRATEGY project to improve the interoperability of crisis management systems, tools and operational procedures for effective disaster response within and between borders. Crisis management involves the coordination of a number of organisations and authorities across countries. It is often […]
AI in healthcare: paving the way with standardisation
AI has become one of the top strategic priorities and a key driving force of economic growth. The potential of this game-changing technology in the healthcare sector will make a huge difference for both professionals and patients. The one-day interactive stakeholders’ workshop organised by CEN-CENELEC on 27th October 2020, is very timely as it will bring […]
Best practices in sharing research data between private entities and researchers
This article outlines the basic data protection requirements and provides guiding principles for GDPR compliant data sharing practices in complex research settings.
EDPB Updated Guidance on Consent
The article reviews new guidance by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) on building GDPR compliant consent mechanisms.
