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Lilian Edwards

Researcher at University of Newcastle

Publications -  85
Citations -  1572

Lilian Edwards is an academic researcher from University of Newcastle. The author has contributed to research in topics: Data Protection Act 1998 & The Internet. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 84 publications receiving 1263 citations. Previous affiliations of Lilian Edwards include University of Edinburgh & Newcastle University.

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Slave to the Algorithm? Why a 'Right to an Explanation' Is Probably Not the Remedy You Are Looking For

TL;DR: It is argued that a right to an explanation in the GDPR is unlikely to be a complete remedy to algorithmic harms, particularly in some of the core "algorithmic war stories" that have shaped recent attitudes in this domain and it is feared that the search for a "right to an explanations" in theGDPR may be at best distracting, and at worst nurture a new kind of "transparency fallacy".
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Algorithms that remember: model inversion attacks and data protection law.

TL;DR: Recent work from the information security literature around ‘model inversion’ and ‘membership inference’ attacks is presented, which indicates that the process of turning training data into machine-learned systems is not one way, and how this could lead some models to be legally classified as personal data.
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Algorithms that Remember: Model Inversion Attacks and Data Protection Law.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present recent work from the information security literature around ''model inversion'' and ''membership inference'' attacks, which indicate that the process of turning training data into machine learned systems is not one-way, and demonstrate how this could lead some models to be legally classified as personal data.
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What does it mean to 'solve' the problem of discrimination in hiring?: social, technical and legal perspectives from the UK on automated hiring systems

TL;DR: A perspective outside the US is introduced by critically examining how three prominent automated hiring systems in regular use in the UK, HireVue, Pymetrics and Applied, understand and attempt to mitigate bias and discrimination, before situating these in the socio-legal context of the UK.