Posted on 04/11/2018 8:21:03 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Minister for employment Troels Lund Poulsen has backed suggestions that an ethics council for the use of data could be established by the Danish state.
The idea has been raised by environmentalist party Alternative, which has proposed that areas such as privacy, data protection, artificial intelligence and data laws could come under the remit of the ethics council.
A similar ethics body, the Danish Council of Ethics (Det Etiske Råd), already exists for healthcare matters.
“I am open to discussion [of the idea],” Poulsen said to Ritzau.
The government has already established a group tasked with finding potential solutions to data-related ethical issues, the news agency writes. …
(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.dk ...
The Danish gov’t is probably guilty as heck.
Your bank, insurance company, auto loan company, DMV, and local school district has been selling your personal data for thirty years. So why the epiphany?
Just another excuse for the government to take more power for itself and away from the people via special unelected “councils”.
True...is is an unelected group of ‘players’....but they get hotel and food costs, and can hang out for days discussing the evils of data sharing.
The remarkable thing will be if they actually pick people for the council that have any background in social media or computers. With the Danish luck....it’ll be a group with only one member having an email account, and the rest all intellectuals locked into the non-computer age.
Yep. Lobbyists in the 80s pushed on behalf of the mass-marketing mailers.
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