Webinar: Trust and transparency

Time: 14:00-15:00 CET (Central European Time) 

Organizers: Andreas Kotsios and Hrefna D Gunnarsdóttir 

How to register: 

To register, please email post@nordicpermedlaw.org by 11 September 2024. You will receive a Zoom link shortly before the event. 

About: 

Trust and transparency are two concepts frequently emphasized in the preparation of legislation and, to some extent, reflected in the laws themselves. Over the past few years, several European laws and initiatives related to data and AI regulation have highlighted that, in the EU, transparency is considered a key means of achieving trust—one of the primary regulatory goals in this domain. This webinar aims to contextualize this European strategy by examining the concepts of trust and transparency, with a particular focus on health data

Andreas Kotsios, is Associate Professor at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, Researcher at the Division of Media Technology and Interaction Design, KTH and Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law at the University of Milan, In this presentation he will discuss the rise of 'trust' as a normative goal for regulating data and AI in the EU, starting with how this notion has gained momentum over the past few years, exploring its content, and pointing out some of the challenges that arise from using trust as a regulatory goal.

Hrefna D Gunnarsdóttir, is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Iceland and Researcher at WELMA - Legal Studies for Welfare and Market, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. Focusing on the GDPR, she will discuss the concept of transparency and present her findings about trust as a regulatory purpose and expected outcome of applying the GDPR’s transparency requirements when health data is used in biomedical research.