Ambient intelligence and the profiling activities authorized by modern technologies oblige us to renew our legislation in different directions. Traditionally, data protection law considers only the relationship between data controllers and data subjects positioned as independent entities. However, in the ambient intelligence reality where profiling activities proliferate, enabled by more and more sophisticated software algorithms, their societal impacts have to be taken into consideration by legislative bodies.

Dr Marta Köodziejczyk specializes in EU law and international human rights law. She graduated from Jagiellonian University in Krakow (MA) and Warsaw University (PhD). She then pursued her professional career at the Polish Institute of International Affairs under the supervision of professor Adam Daniel Rotfeld. She has had the opportunity to pay study visits to universities in Utrecht (Netherlands), Heidelberg (Germany), Miami-Florida Jean Monnet European Center of Excellence, Shanghai International Studies University and to attend scientific seminars at: the Warsaw based Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, René Cassin International Human Rights Institute (Strasbourg), European University Institute in Florence, and Council of the European Union (Brussels) while pursuing scientific traineeship at the Human Rights Unit; at present she is associate of the Jagiellonian University Center for European Studies.

1) Privacy and data protection-history and current state of law;

2) European Union Competence in the field of Asylum and Migration Policy;

3) Possible risks of fundamental rights infringements posed by the digitalization of the EU immigration and asylum policy;

4) Between Knowledge and Power- Use of Technology for the management of immigration policy: European Union versus United States of America

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