The European data protection supervisor (EDPS) has announced a new advisory group to lead a debate on the ethical implications of human rights, technology, markets and business models in the 21st century. Six individuals will lead the two-year initiative: American computer scientist and writer Jaron Lanier; Dutch data analytics consultant Aurélie Pols and four philosophers, Peter Burgess, Antoinette Rouvrov, Luciano Floridi and Jeroen van den Hoven, who bring experience in political and legal philosophy, logic and the ethics and philosophy of technology. In an interview with MIT Technology Review, Lanier said that he was “very excited about this project” because it would help him think more deeply about how technology is changing our lives.
The European data protection supervisor (EDPS) has announced a new advisory group to lead a debate on the ethical implications of human rights, technology, markets and business models in the 21st century. Six individuals will lead the two-year initiative: American computer scientist and writer Jaron Lanier; Dutch data analytics consultant Aurélie Pols and four philosophers, Peter Burgess, Antoinette Rouvrov, Luciano Floridi and Jeroen van den Hoven, who bring experience in political and legal philosophy, logic and the ethics and philosophy of technology. The initiative was announced after Martin Schulz, the president of the European parliament, declared that companies such as Facebook, Google and Amazon are involved in a form of technological innovation that is acting as a “wrecking ball” and which risks reducing people to “remote controlled ‘data cows’”.