Protection of natural persons with regard to automated individual decision-making in the GDPR
By: Aleksandra Drożdż
Series: European monographs series -- volume 113; European monographs -- 113
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands; Frederick, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9789403520452; 9789403520513; 9789403520537
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Data protection; Law and legislation; Information technology; Social aspects; Decision making; Moral and ethical aspects; Human rights; European Parliament
Description: Protection of Natural Persons with Regard to Automated Individual Decision-Making in the GDPR' describes and analyses the GDPR aimed at protecting natural persons with regard to automated individual decision-making. The book?s objective is to examine whether this legislative act affords sufficient protection of natural persons with regard to such processing. Increasingly, algorithms regulate our lives. Personal data is routinely processed on an unprecedented scale in both private and public sectors. This shift from more subjective and less structured human decision-making processes to automated ones has provoked numerous concerns with regard to the rights and freedoms of natural persons affected. In particular, those attached to profiling that can lead to discrimination influencing crucial opportunities of individuals, such as the ability to obtain credit, insurance, education, a job or even medical treatment. To the extent that automated individual decision-making is based on personal data, in the European Union it is subject to the GDPR.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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