The DAta Protection REgulation COmpliance Model

in IEEE Security and Privacy (2019), 17(6), 37-45

Understanding whether certain technical measures comply with the General Data Protection Regulation’s (GDPR’s) principles is complex legal work. This article describes a model of the GDPR that allows for ... [more ▼]

Understanding whether certain technical measures comply with the General Data Protection Regulation’s (GDPR’s) principles is complex legal work. This article describes a model of the GDPR that allows for semiautomatic processing of legal text and the leveraging of state-of-the-art legal informatics approaches, which are useful for legal reasoning, software design, information retrieval, or compliance checking. [less ▲]

Legal Reasoning and Big Data: Opportunities and Challenges

in Legal Reasoning and Big Data: Opportunities and Challenges (2018)

PrOnto: Privacy Ontology for Legal Reasoning

in International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective (2018)

The European Legal Taxonomy Syllabus: A multi-lingual, multi-level ontology framework to untangle the web of European legal terminology

in Applied Ontology (2017)

Towards legal compliance by correlating Standards and Laws with a semi-automated methodology

in Bosse, Tibor; Bredeweg, Bert (Eds.) Communications in Computer and Information Science (2017)

Since generally legal regulations do not provide clear parameters to determine when their requirements are met, achieving legal compliance is not trivial. The adoption of standards could help create an ... [more ▼]

Since generally legal regulations do not provide clear parameters to determine when their requirements are met, achieving legal compliance is not trivial. The adoption of standards could help create an argument of compliance in favour of the implementing party, provided there is a clear correspondence between the provisions of a specific standard and the regulation's requirements. However, identifying such correspondences is a complex process which is complicated further by the fact that the established correlations may be overridden in time e.g., because newer court decisions change the interpretation of certain legal provisions. To help solve these problems, we present a framework that supports legal experts in recognizing correlations between provisions in a standard and requirements in a given law. The framework relies on state-of-the-art Natural Language Semantics techniques to process the linguistic terms of the two documents, and maintains a knowledge base of the logic representations of the terms, together with their defeasible correlations, both formal and substantive. An application of the framework is shown by comparing a provision of the European General Data Protection Regulation with the ISO/IEC 27018:2014 standard. [less ▲]

Reified Input/Output logic: Combining Input/Output logic and Reification to represent norms coming from existing legislation

in Journal of Logic and Computation (2017)

Towards legal compliance by correlating Standards and Laws with a semi-automated methodology

in Proceedings of the 28 Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC) (2016, November)

Since legal regulations do not generally provide clear parameters to determine when their requirements are met, achieving legal compliance is not trivial. If there were a clear correspondence between the ... [more ▼]

Since legal regulations do not generally provide clear parameters to determine when their requirements are met, achieving legal compliance is not trivial. If there were a clear correspondence between the provisions of a specific standard and the regulation’s requirements, one could implement the standard to claim a presumption of compliance. However, finding those correspondences is a complex process; additionally, correlations may be overridden in time, for instance, because newer court decisions change the interpretation of certain provisions. To help solve this problem, we present a framework that supports legal experts in recognizing correlations between provisions in a standard and requirements in a given law. The framework relies on state-of-the-art Natural Language Semantics techniques to process the linguistic terms of the two documents, and maintains a knowledge base of the logic representations of the terms, together with their defeasible correlations, both formal and substantive. An application of the framework is shown by comparing a provision of the European General Data Protection Regulation against the ISO/IEC 27018:2014 standard. [less ▲]

Norm Creation in Proposition Control Games

in Proceedings of the 1st Chinese Conference on Logic and Argumentation (CLAR 2016), Hangzhou, China, April 2-3, 2016. (2016)

Ali Baba and Thief, Norm Emergence in Games

Presentation (2016)

Reified Input/Output logic - a position paper

in proceedings of Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Justice (AI4J), collocated at the 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2016) (2016)