Thursday, March 11, 2021
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To mark the release of Mark Hunyadi's book " Au début est la confiance”, the Values and Policies of Personal Information Chair organized this 21st Meeting, with the author in attendance, who explained its fundamental ideas.
Mark Hunyadi explained the principles of his unified theory of trust and how it relates to the digital world.
To mark the release of Mark Hunyadi's book "Au début est la confiance", the Chair of Values and Policies of Personal Information organized this 21st Conference, with the author in attendance, who presented its fundamental ideas.
Mark Hunyadi explained the principles of his unified theory of trust and how it relates to the digital world.
This conference allowed us to discover trust, defined, in an original way, as a bet on behavioral expectations. Thus, we have behavioral expectations regarding our alarm clock (things), our baker (people), and money (institutions). We rely on all these correlates of our actions, which means that by interacting with them, we expect them to behave in a certain way. And we bet that they will, which is why we actually interact with them. This is the matrix of the relationship of trust.
The reign of calculation to which the algorithmic world subjects us tends to establish a world of assurance rather than a world of trust. Thus, the reign of calculation could well lead to major societal and anthropological changes, which we will find analyzed here for the first time through the prism of trust.
Our aim was to question this unified theory in light of practical and current cases, particularly in the context of the establishment of the new single data market at the European level and the evolving regulatory framework.
With contributions from:
Mark Hunyadi
Mark Hunyadi is a professor of social, moral, and political philosophy at the Catholic University of Louvain. From his earliest publications, he linked fundamental moral philosophy to the critical theory of society. Through his more recent work on bioethics and the philosophy of technology, he has developed a critical theory of contemporary liberalism, which he considers incapable of grasping ethical issues beyond those related to what he calls "Little Ethics," namely the protection of individual rights and freedoms.
His works expose the "tyranny of lifestyles" (the title of his 2015 book) that we endure despite, and because of, our overt liberalism. His new book, "Au début est la confiance," focuses in particular on the impact of digital technology and relationships of trust.
Maryline Laurent
Ms. Maryline Laurent is a professor at Télécom SudParis at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris. She leads the R3S research team at the SAMOVAR laboratory and co-directs the RST department at Télécom SudParis, whose research focuses on networks and cybersecurity. She is co-founder of the Personal Information Values and Policies Chair at the Institut Mines-Télécom, which addresses personal data issues from various perspectives: legal, economic, technical, and philosophical. She conducts research in the security and protection of personal data applied to identity management, the Internet of Things, and the cloud. She has co-edited several books, including "La gestion des identités numériques" (Institut Mines-Télécom, 2015).
Patrick Waelbroeck
Mr. Patrick Waelbroeck holds a PhD in economics from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and is a professor of industrial economics and econometrics at Telecom Paris. His work focuses on the economics of innovation, the economics of intellectual property, the economics of the Internet, and personal data. He is co-founder of the Chair in Values and Policies of Personal Information at the Institut Mines-Télécom, which addresses the issues of personal data and Big Data from various perspectives: legal, economic, technical, and philosophical. Patrick Waelbroeck teaches digital economics, econometrics, and digital finance to engineers at Telecom Paris. He is a member of the international CESIfo network.
Claire Levallois-Barth
Ms. Claire Levallois-Barth is a lecturer and researcher in law at Télécom Paris, a graduate school comprising the Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT) and the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris). She is a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation (I3), a joint CNRS unit. Claire Levallois-Barth is also Coordinator of the Personal Information Values and Policies Chair at IMT. She is responsible for Axis 5, "Protection of Personal Data Involved in Connected Vehicles," of the Télécom Paris "Connected Cars & Cyber Security" (C3S) Chair. Claire Levallois-Barth is a member of the Digital Ethics Steering Committee, associate editor of the Annals of Telecommunications, member of the scientific committee of the International Cybersecurity Forum (FIC), member of the AXA Data Privacy Expert Panel and member of the Pôle Emploi Artificial Intelligence Ethics Committee.