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Automated Decision-Making and Effective Remedies
The New Dynamics in the Protection of EU Fundamental Rights in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
9781035306602 Edward Elgar Publishing
This timely book explores the legal and practical challenges created by the increasingly automated decision-making procedures underpinning EU multilevel cooperation, for example, in the fields of border control and law enforcement. It argues that such procedures impact not only the rights to privacy and data protection, but fundamentally challenge the EU constitutional promise of effective judicial protection
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This timely book explores the legal and practical challenges created by the increasingly automated decision-making procedures underpinning EU multilevel cooperation, for example, in the fields of border control and law enforcement. It argues that such procedures impact not only the rights to privacy and data protection, but fundamentally challenge the EU constitutional promise of effective judicial protection.
Focusing on informational cooperation in the EU Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, this book examines the extent to which the EU’s system of remedies allows individuals to enforce their rights against automated decisions – such as in cases of the rejection of a residence permit application or the execution of search warrants. Concluding that enforcement of rights is difficult to achieve, the book calls for the comprehensive legal empowerment of individuals through a deep procedural review of automated decision-making. It advances the academic and policy debate on human-centric digital innovation, presenting an empirical case for greater scrutiny of the uses of new technology.
The book will be a fascinating read for scholars and students of European law, the law of technology, and human rights. It will also be a useful guide for human and digital rights organisations, policy-makers, and judges seeking to empower individuals in the age of automation.
Focusing on informational cooperation in the EU Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, this book examines the extent to which the EU’s system of remedies allows individuals to enforce their rights against automated decisions – such as in cases of the rejection of a residence permit application or the execution of search warrants. Concluding that enforcement of rights is difficult to achieve, the book calls for the comprehensive legal empowerment of individuals through a deep procedural review of automated decision-making. It advances the academic and policy debate on human-centric digital innovation, presenting an empirical case for greater scrutiny of the uses of new technology.
The book will be a fascinating read for scholars and students of European law, the law of technology, and human rights. It will also be a useful guide for human and digital rights organisations, policy-makers, and judges seeking to empower individuals in the age of automation.
Critical Acclaim
‘Simona Demková’s monograph on the challenges to the right to an effective remedy posed by what she innovatively terms “semi-automated decision-making” in information cooperation in the EU AFSJ constitutes an important addition to the growing literature on EU-wide large-scale IT systems. Her administrative law lens through which information cooperation is studied is refreshing, thought provoking and original.’
– Niovi Vavoula, Queen Mary University of London, UK
‘By putting together two of the at present most interesting and, at the same time, most complex topics for EU Administrative Law scholarship, this book provides a clever and extremely welcome insight on European composite decision-making supported by algorithmically underpinned or otherwise automated decision-making support systems and on its negative impact on the effectiveness of judicial protection.’
– Diana-Urania Galetta, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
‘This book provides invaluable insights not only on the impact of technological progress on the protection of private persons but also on the difficulties of providing effective judicial protection in the face of the increasingly multi-jurisdictional and cross-border nature of administrative decision-making processes used for the implementation of EU law.’
– Mariolina Eliantonio, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
– Niovi Vavoula, Queen Mary University of London, UK
‘By putting together two of the at present most interesting and, at the same time, most complex topics for EU Administrative Law scholarship, this book provides a clever and extremely welcome insight on European composite decision-making supported by algorithmically underpinned or otherwise automated decision-making support systems and on its negative impact on the effectiveness of judicial protection.’
– Diana-Urania Galetta, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
‘This book provides invaluable insights not only on the impact of technological progress on the protection of private persons but also on the difficulties of providing effective judicial protection in the face of the increasingly multi-jurisdictional and cross-border nature of administrative decision-making processes used for the implementation of EU law.’
– Mariolina Eliantonio, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Contents
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Automated information processing in EU composite decision-making 3. The legal framework: Rights, remedies and obligations in semi-automated decision-making 4. Allocating responsibilities 5. Accessing remedies 6. Exercising effective review: trust but care? 7. Effective remedies in the age of automation: Findings and recommendations 8. Conclusion Index
