ART-AI Seminar
We are pleased to have Shilpa Singh Jaswant who is a PhD candidate at Melbourne Law School, join us for this ART-AI seminar entitled ‘Group rights in the digital realm’. This seminar will take place online on Zoom on Tuesday 12th March 2024, 10.15am-11.15am (GMT). Alan Hunter will chair. For joining instructions, please e-mail [email protected].
Title
Group rights in the digital realm
Abstract
The research proposes a liberal theory of group rights to privacy and data protection based on the interdependent social relations of information collected to address the problems associated with group profiling, i.e., target advertising, and personalised pricing. This group right will pave the way for a right to data sovereignty so that a group can exercise control over their data and self-determine their fate. The concept of data sovereignty from the citizens’ perspective will help the research to relook at the functionality of privacy and data. The research argues that personal data is not only information about a person but also the manifestation of the fundamental freedoms and autonomy of personhood. While the right to privacy, a highly discussed and debated freedom, is the precondition to enjoying basic freedoms without interference or obstruction.
Bio
Shilpa is a PhD candidate at Melbourne Law School. Her PhD research is on group privacy rights in the digital realm. She completed B.Sc. LLB. (Hons) from Gujarat National Law University and holds a LLM from Europa Kolleg-University of Hamburg and was a recipient of a DAAD scholarship. She worked as an academic at OP Jindal Global University and practiced as a competition lawyer at boutique and international law firms. She is a Research Fellow for the CyberBRICS project at Centre for Technology & Society, FGV Law School, Rio de Janeiro and a Visiting Professor at FGV Law School.
