ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Janneke Gerards

Janneke Gerards is Professor of fundamental rights law at the Montaigne Centre for Rule of Law and Administration of Justice at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Her research focuses on fundamental rights, equal treatment law, judicial review and new technologies. She is also a deputy judge at the Appeals Court of The Hague and a member of the Netherlands State Commission against Discrimination and Racism.
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POSTS BY Janneke Gerards

08 May 2023

Janneke Gerards

Machine learning and profiling in the PNR system

Automated processing of personal data, which is what Passenger Name Record data are, can lead to forms of profiling; certain individuals or groups of people are more likely to be excluded based on the transfer of their data than others. In its Passenger Name Record judgment, the CJEU extensively discusses discrimination risks, and it set a number of conditions to prevent them. Unfortunately, not all of its considerations are perfectly clear and some of the solutions the CJEU proposes are not entirely satisfactory. Continue reading >>

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