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Group leader at @EPFL interested in the ethics & policy of #AI & #biotech, global justice & human rights. Author of Intelligenza². Founder @ScienzaLive
Apr 26, 2022 6 tweets 4 min read
New OA paper out in @J_Law_Biosci co-authored with @JcMalgieri: "#Mental data protection and the #GDPR".
We discuss what #privacy and #DataProtection regime is needed for data about a person's mental states. 1/6
academic.oup.com/jlb/article/9/… In this article, we introduce the notion of ‘mental data’, defined as any data that can be organized and processed to make inferences about the mental states of a person, including their #cognitive, #affective and #conative states 2/6
Mar 11, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read
#COVID19 #ethics thread: The hardest problem to solve in Europe/US now is an ethical one. From the public health perspective, China & South Korea showed that containment measures work. What still eludes public awareness is the moral responsibility that everyone has towards others We need to send a very clear and simple message: we need to behave in a certain way not because we feel personally at risk or because it's imposed on us from above, but because we can help reduce the risk for everyone, especially the most vulnerable.