Guide

Ethics

Not unlike other technologies the use of PETs raises ethical questions besides legal questions. An example of ethical issues is the foreseen use of the outcome of the computation. Improper use of the outcome must be prevented at any moment, such as improper product and service development or improper marketing towards clients or data subjects, personal gain or negative profiling and the development of questionable AI technologies. The used PETs could limit the risks to a certain level but cannot mitigate fundamental ethical objections.

Also, the PET itself could be open for debate. Therefore, security measures need to be taken into consideration as well. Insufficient consideration of security risks could lead to exposure of personal data. See Appendix B and C. In this line of thought it would be well to formalise the data governance by closing an agreement between all parties concerning integrity of the input data to the computation. When the processing of data might be a high risk in general a data privacy impact assessment would be the least of measures to take.