Research Group Public Law and Computer Science

Maitrayee Pathak was invited to speak about her publication on Traceability for Privacy in a workshop organized by the SmartLawHub and the Brussels Privacy Hub held at HEC Paris on March 23-24 in connection with the forthcoming special issue in Computer Law & Security Review. This legal-technical paper explores traceability, defined as the ability to document the data lifecycle and link processing to a verifiable legal basis. It analyzes the traceability mandates from the GDPR to the AI Act, compares technical architectures based on blockchains, attestations and cryptographic claims, and proposes a standardized, and privacy-preserving traceability layer as a critical infrastructural prerequisite to bridge the gap between legal principles and technical enforceability. It also proposes embedding it in the Eurostack vision for a more competitive, transparent and accountable digital Europe.

The chair of public law and computer science (T.T.-Prof. Dr. iur. Frederike Zufall) is looking for a doctoral researcher with a keen interest in interdisciplinary research between public law and computer science.

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In a paper published in the journal Computer Law & Security Review, Gustavo Gil Gasiola examines the Commission’s pyramid of risks and uses a binary decision diagram to visualise and interpret the risk-based approach of the AI Act.

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On Verfassungsblog, Gustavo Gil Gasiola analyses the Commission’s Code of Practice, intended to facilitate compliance with the AI Act's obligations for general-purpose AI models.

Sarah Cen, Stanford University (CS and Law School), is going to give an invited talk on "Adapting for AI: Complexities of AI Accountability“ on March 28th, 3 pm in the InformatiKOM. 

She will dive deep into a few topics in AI safety and policy, discuss AI supply chains and explore how they complicate machine learning objectives. The discussion will then shift to AI audits and evidentiary burdens in cases involving AI. Using Pareto frontiers as a tool for assessing performance-fairness tradeoffs, the talk will show how a closed-form expression for performance-fairness Pareto frontiers can help plaintiffs (or auditors) overcome evidentiary burdens or a lack of access in AI contexts.

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Frederike Zufall co-authored (with Johnny Wei and Robin Jia from USC) paper on operationalizing content moderation "accuracy" in the Digital Services Act appeared at the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics and Society (AIES) in San José. Identifying a contradiction in its literal understanding, the interdisciplinary work relates the underspecified term to the affected fundamental rights - operationalizing it as a trade-off between precision and recall - and proposes a stratified sampling approach to meet the reporting requirements of the DSA.

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Gustavo Gil Gasiola publishes a book entitled "Datenübermittlung in der öffentlichen Verwaltung"(in English: Data Transfer in Public Administration). This book examines the lawfulness of data transfer in public administration according to the criteria of lawfulness, purpose limitation and transparency.

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Co-authored paper by Frederike Zufall (with Lin Kyi, Sushil Ammanaghatta Shivakumar, Cristiana Teixeira Santos, Franziska Roesner and Asia J. Biega) wins the Council of Europe’s Stefano Rodotà Data Protection Award 2024

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Paul Friedl and Gustavo Gil Gasiola (Public Law and Computer Science) publish a blog post examining the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act on Verfassungblog.de