Equality in the Algorithmic Age: A New Frontier for European Union Law?

该研究项目调查了欧盟法律如何应对算法决策，并保护个人免受算法偏见和歧视的伤害。这将决定欧盟法律是否拥有安全监管算法决策的技术能力，并防止个人受到不公平和歧视性决定的影响，或者是否有必要进行法律的改革。如果是这样的话，该研究项目将评估这种改革应该是什么样子。本文将在不同的行政和裁决背景下进行调查，并具体研究欧盟法律中以下法律的框架的有效性：i）反歧视和平等法（ii）隐私和数据保护法（iii）技术法改革。这项研究有助于我们理解平等在算法环境中意味着什么，以及这是否与人类世界同义。这项研究进一步推进了法律理论的辩论，使学者，政策制定者和从业者更好地理解法律如何制定自己的原则和规则，这些原则和规则具有技术能力来维护算法世界中的平等。

This research project investigates how EU law responds to algorithmic decision-making and protects individuals from the harms of algorithmic bias and discrimination. This will determine whether EU law possesses thetechnological competence to safely regulate algorithmic decision-making and prevent individuals from being exposed to unfair and discriminatory decisions or whether legal reform is necessary. If so, the research project will assesswhat such reform should look like. The thesis will conduct the investigation in different administrative and adjudicative contexts and specifically examine the effectiveness of the following legal frameworks in EU law: i) anti-discrimination and equality laws (ii) privacy and data protection laws (iii) technology law reforms. The research contributes to our understanding of what equality means in an algorithmic context and whether such issynonymous to the human world. The research advances the legal-doctrinal debate further so that academics, policy-Tmakers and practitioners better understand how the law can develop its own body of principles and rules that havethe technological competence to safeguard equality in the algorithmic world.