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Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation Minutes - Board Meeting 7

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12th September 2019

Bayes Centre, University of Edinburgh, 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh EH8 9BT

Board Attendees:

  • Roger Taylor (RT)
  • Rt Revd Dr Steven Croft (SC)
  • Edwina Dunn (ED)
  • Dame Patricia Hodgson (PH)
  • Dr Susan Liautaud (SL)
  • Dame Glenys Stacey (GS)
  • Baroness Kate Rock (KR)
  • Richard Sargeant (RS)
  • Kriti Sharma (KS)
  • Prof Lord Robert Winston (RW)

Apologies:

  • Prof Luciano Floridi (LF)
  • Dr Adrian Weller (AW)

Observers (CDEI staff for sections of the meeting relevant to their work)

  • Ollie Buckley (OB)
  • Sam Cannicott (SC)
  • Sam Cannicott (SC)
  • Sam Cannicott (SC)

ITEM 1: Opening

  • Apologies and introductions of new team members.
  • Declaration of Interests, and no declared interests.
  • The Board approved the minutes from the previous meeting.

ITEM 2: Chair’s Update

  • Note of 2020 Work Programme plans and timelines.
  • Confirmation of Board meetings for 2020.
  • RT updated the Board on his recent visits to Canada, Australia and Singapore, and importance on continuing to collaborate internationally in this space.
    • Board Members keen to support further international work.

ITEM 2: Executive Director’s Update

  • Update on new staff members joining CDEI.
  • Confirmation of CDEI budget for 2020.
  • Discussion of first AI Council meeting - PH and KS both attended.

ITEM 3: Reporting - standing items

  • Postponed discussion until October due to time constraints.

ITEM 4: Statutory Footing and 2020 Work Programme Statutory Footing

  • Discussion of what is possible through a mixture of primary and secondary legislation including:
    • Aims and objectives
    Function and powers
    Type of arms’ length body and organisational design
    Regulatory gaps
    Funding once moving away from central government 2020 Work Programme
  • Postponed discussion until October due to time constraints. CDEI will provide Board with developed thinking prior to the meeting.

ITEM 5: Risk Register - Deep Dive

  • Postponed discussion due to time constraints.

ITEM 6: Reviews

Bias Update - Code of practice in predictive analytics in policing

  • RUSI Paper is the first deliverable and an interim briefing on the state of play with regards to data analytics and policing.
  • A framework for the ethical use of data analytics is currently being drafted. Drawing on RUSI’s research, stakeholder engagement and further research, we are looking to publish this with an invitation to comment in the Autumn.
    • Noted that there will a lot of interest in this area from both a transformation perspective as well as ethics.

Online Targeting Update - public engagement work

  • The purpose of the work (in conjunction with IPSOS Mori) is to understand public attitudes to online targeting. In terms of research, this has included general engagement events, and events with special interest groups which were particularly relevant for the review (young people, financially vulnerable, those with mental health issues.
  • Indicative results are that there is low understanding across most groups, including those who are tech literate. There is appreciation for the benefits of personalisation, but there are particular concerns about vulnerability; looking at the balance between protection and privacy, and how this might change in different settings and for different vulnerable groups.
  • Noted that this will be an area for additional future work.

ITEM 7: Analyse and Anticipate

    Data sharing Update
  • The work focuses on the flow of data across the public sector, and is looking at cases where it has already been happening and what barriers that organisations have come up against. One issue is that legal gateways for data sharing take a lot of time e.g. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) needs changes in legislation to happen first.
  • We are looking at different types of data, what local authorities, central government, and health and social care providers are doing with data. We are looking at where data has been shared and added value, and has it been done in a trustworthy way.
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