My Data is Mine Award – 2024 edition

The My data is mine Award is aimed at supporting young scholars with an innovative approach to data protection issues and who can offer a visionary contribution to data exploitation in Europe and worldwide

We are delighted to once again have the patronage of the European Data Protection Supervisor for this year. The fifth edition of the My Data is Mine Award – which will take place in Lisbon during the 2024 Web Summit, aims to stimulate academic research on the sustainable development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from a data protection perspective. Read the Call for Papers 2024 titled «Towards an innovative data ecosystem in the Age of Artificial Intelligence». 

2023 Award ceremony

Relive last year’s Award ceremony

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Watch Christina Varytimidou receive the award at the Web Summit in Lisbon for her paper titled: “GDPR Stress-tests by AI: Towards a user-centric data protection approach.”


1 publication

8th November 2024

Data Altruism by Default: An Alternative to Consent for Personal Data Processing in Machine Learning
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This paper examines the need for a new framework to balance the development of high-quality AI systems with the protection of personal data. It critiques current data practices, which often involve dubious or unlawful monetization of personal data, misleadingly labeled as data altruism. The author argues that the Data Governance Act's definition of data altruism is too limited to address these issues. The paper proposes a novel approach that allows necessary data processing for AI development while enforcing strict safeguards and objective limitations on business models. This approach aims to provoke societal and political discussion rather than serve as a final solution.

Written by: Tea Mustać
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