FRC Member, Carlotta Rigotti, will moderate the CPDP panel "Violent Extremism, Vulnerability and the Limits of Confidentiality".
Abstract:
Exit counselling means to facilitate deradicalisation and personal growth, so that clients distance themselves from anti-democratic and violent-extremist thinking and behaviour. Exit counselling therefore implies intensive work with most sensitive personal and family/community issues – sometimes resembling psychotherapy; it thus requires voluntary participation, full confidentiality and the processing of personally-identifiable data. Yet, by working in an inter-agency scenario, exit practitioners are often asked to report and/or give risk-assessments about clients. Besides, data protection issues around exit programs are often misunderstood as conflict between individual rights and state security interests, with the consequence of disregarding the vulnerability of both the clients and democracy itself and its quintessential separation of powers/functions. Although the GDPR does not explicitly define vulnerable data subjects, clients should be protected because of the higher risks of damages arising to data processing and/or to the outcomes of such processing.
The panel will take place on January 28th, 2020 at 17.15.
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