D8.1 Briefing paper for INGENIOUS complying with fundamental rights and societal values

This deliverable is a preliminary guide to key considerations surrounding fundamental rights and societal values within the INGENIOUS project. Specifically, it introduces ethics, privacy and data protection for the benefit of the technical partners designing the INGENIOUS Next Generation Integrated Toolkit (NGIT) and first responders who will give input into this design and eventually trial the technology. These considerations inform the Ethics and Privacy Impact Assessment plus (including a Data Protection Impact Assessment). Accordingly, technical partners ensure that the technology is developed with a privacy and data protection by design approach. This Impact Assessment approach ultimately benefits individuals as rights bearers, organisations with compliance obligations and society as a whole.

This deliverable is based on conversations had with the project partners on the planned outputs and a desk-based literature review. It pays attention to legal instruments including the General Data Protection Regulation, as well as related standards, academic publications and stakeholder insights. First, it explains ethical and social issues such as autonomy, dignity, informed consent, trust, asymmetries of power, fairness, equality and discrimination. Second, it outlines seven manifestations of privacy: privacy of the person, of behaviour and action, of communication, of data and image, of thoughts and feelings, of location and space, and of association. Third, it describes key data protection principles of lawfulness, fairness and transparency; purpose limitation; data minimisation; accuracy; storage limitation; integrity and confidentiality (security); accountability and safeguarding data subject rights. It concludes by describing briefly an introductory workshop on ethics, privacy and data protection that Trilateral gave during the plenary meeting in February 2020. Based on the workshop and this deliverable, partners can continue designing and employing technology in a way that enables ethical, privacy- and data-protective actions, and contributes to safeguarding fundamental human rights.