Mariano delli Santi, Open Rights Group highlighted the issues from ORG’s Hands off our data campaign; Tanya Krupiy, Newcastle University, explained how the increasing use of AI impacts on all human rights and access to resources that are crucial to everyone’s wellbeing; Eleanor Duhs. Partner from Bates Wells gave examples of how the UK’s data protection standards have already fallen; and James Farrar, CEO, of the Worker Information Exchange alerted us to the barriers workers face challenging decisions made through ADM including around pay setting, work allocaction and robo firing, illustrated by the recent Ola cabs and Uber rulings.

Reference materials

Dr Tanya Krupiy - Newcastle University: Meeting the Chimera: How the Cedaw Can Address Digital Discrimination
Krupiy, Sheinin - Disability Discrimination in the Digital Realm: How the ICRPD Applies to Artificial Intelligence Decision-Making Processes and Helps in Determining the State of International Human Rights Law
Dr Tanya Krupiy, Newcastle University - The need to update the Artificial Intelligence Act to make it human rights compliant — The Digital Constitutionalist
Dr Tanya Krupiy, Newcastle University - Artificial Intelligence – the need to update the Equality Act 2010
Eleanor Duhs, Partner and Head of Data Privacy Bates Wells - The Data Protection (Fundamental Rights and Freedoms) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 – a failure to contain damaging uncertainty
Historic digital rights win for Workers Information Exchange and the ADCU over Uber and Ola at Amsterdam Court of Appeal