The PROTECT Network on AI Data Governance at ADAPT, Trinity College Dublin, has been shortlisted for the Best Use of Responsible AI & Ethics in this year’s AI Ireland AI Awards. This project investigates methods to protect the rights and interests of individuals impacted by the continuous large-scale analysis of personal data, while still enabling the economy and society to benefit from rapid innovation.
There is a growing awareness worldwide that the personal data of users of online information services are not sufficiently protected. Companies harvest and utilise personal data on a massive scale, including browser behaviour, social media messages, and content on personal websites. Concerns about the collection, use and leakage of personal data have become more pronounced since the rise of “big data”, i.e. very large data sets gathered from mobile devices, bio-sensors, cameras, GPS trackers and social media. This data is analysed using increasingly sophisticated machine learning techniques to deliver new insights and predictions about an individual’s behaviour and also feed increasingly personalised AI-driven interactive digital experiences.
The PROTECT Network on AI Data Governance led by Trinity College Dublin and the SFI ADAPT Centre, is a unique multidisciplinary, cross academic-industry and international European Training Network (ETN), made up of five institutions in Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands and Spain, funded under the EU’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions to train a new generation of 14 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) as PhD graduates.
The project investigates methods to protect the rights and interests of individuals impacted by the continuous large-scale analysis of personal data, while still enabling the economy and society to benefit from rapid innovation in digital applications that use this data and thereby underpin the Digital Single Market. The project will deliver a systematic ethical assessment of the diversity of privacy issues that are associated with the collection and storage of various personal information by websites.
More information about this project can be found here.
The AI Awards ceremony will take place on the 23rd November 2022 in the Gibson Hotel, Dublin.
