The free online resource will be launched on 01.07.2024 and is dedicated to translating, summarising and collating case law records on the use of new technologies in the public sphere.
The Tech Litigation Database aims to improve transparency around the impact of new technologies on society and to aid the work of litigators, civil society organisations and researchers as they fight to protect fundamental rights. Containing judgments and decisions from national and international courts as well as data protection authorities, the mission of the Database is to spread legal knowledge about how courts around the world have adjudicated that new technologies should or should not be used.
This new resource is the product of a collaboration between a network of researchers and national rapporteurs who populate it with landmark cases relating to tech governance. It is an outcome of the AFAR - Algorithmic Fairness for Asylum Seekers and Refugees – research project which is based at the Centre for Fundamental Rights and the Hertie School. The project also includes University College Dublin, the University of Copenhagen, the University of Zagreb, the University of Warwick and the European University Institute.
Francesca Palmiotto, postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Fundamental Rights and Editor of the Database, sees it as a resource with global potential, and one which will continue to grow over the coming years. “The Tech Litigation Database will support scholars and practitioners in understanding how courts are addressing crucial legal questions on the intersection between technologies and human rights,” she states.
The AFAR Project is funded by the Volkwagen Foundation and is based at the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School in Berlin.