Our Academic Director Giovanni De Gregorio will take part to the event “Risk regulation, fundamental rights and democracy in the digital age”  at University of Amsterdam on the 7th of November 2024.

Risk has become a way to interpret digital policies. The binary logic of compliance/non-compliance is thus overcome by a different form of compliance where legal requirements are rather tailored to the targets of regulation themselves. In European digital policy, these objectives are primarily related to the protection of fundamental rights and democratic values. One of the most typical structures of the risk-based approach, such as that characterising the GDPR, features a mechanism by which risk evaluation and risk mitigation are put in place directly by the targets of regulation to protect the rights of data subjects, or the Digital Services Act which combines top-down rules with bottom-up risk assessment obligations applying to very large online platforms, in order to protect fundamental rights and democratic values. The AI Act seems to turn upside down such a perspective by implementing a more clearly top-down form of risk-based regulation.

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