Topic: Digital responsibility
The digital transformation in all areas of life leads to ethical and legal issues when digital technologies are used for the common good, ranging from ensuring digital participation to data security.
Can algorithms calculate morally in situations of conflict? Ethics and digital operationalisation regarding risk assessment in child welfare practice (KAIMo)
This project examined ethics and digital operationalisation regarding risk assessment in child welfare practice.
Differential Privacy: New approaches for managing social big data
The research project explored how valid statistical conclusions can be drawn without violating individual privacy. During the project a software environment for implementing differential privacy was developed.
Responsibility Gaps in Human-Machine Interactions: The Ambivalence of Trust in AI (ReGInA)
The bidt-funded project investigated the potential vulnerabilities of relying on machines in medical decision-making.
Data protection
As a category of EU law, data protection aims to enable data subjects to protect their informational interests and concerns.
Data
A simple explanation of the term data is to see data as symbols containing information. These symbols are interpreted by the recipients of the data.
Cybercrime
All crimes committed by means of modern IT are called cybercrime. They are committed over a distance and easily cross national borders, making prosecution more difficult.
Algorithm
Algorithms are basically step-by-step instructions converting inputs into output. The written recording of the algorithms that makes it possible for computers to execute them is called a programme or software.
Ethics in agile software development (EDAP)
The aim of the project was to enable the design of software systems in a way that meets ethical standards. To this end, a framework was developed that integrates ethical considerations into the development process of technical…
On the relation of legislation and ethics in digitalisation
The project undertook an ethical and legal assessment of legal policy projects in the field of digitalisation.
