Recent ACM Europe TPC Public Policy Products
Official ACM policy statements require adoption by the ACM Council or the ACM Executive Committee, and represent the views of ACM. The following materials are the product of, and should be attributed to, the ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee except where identified as having been jointly produced.
2023
- Comments to European Commission re Regulated Data Access Under the Digital Services Act, Europe Technology Policy Committee (May 23, 2023)
- Comments to European Commission re EU Initiative on Virtual Worlds, Europe Technology Policy Committee (May 3, 2023)
- Comments to European Commission re Key Performance Indicators for 2030 Digital Decade Policy Programme, Europe Technology Policy Committee (March 13, 2023)
- Comments in European Commission Cyber Resilience Act Consultation, Europe Technology Policy Committee (January 23, 2023)
2022
- Joint Statement on Principles for Responsible Algorithmic Systems, ACM TPC, Europe/US Technology Policy Committees (October 26, 2022)
Statement in Spanish - Comments in European Commission High Value Dataset Consultation, ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee (June 21, 2022)
- Questionnaire Responses to European Commission Consultation on Cyber Resilience, ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee (May 25, 2022)
- Comments in European Commission Data Act Consultation, ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee (May 13, 2022)
- Comments on European Commission Chips Act Semiconductor Ecosystem Framework, ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee (May 9, 2022)
2021
- Comments on Draft Decision on Establishing 2030 Policy Programme “Path to the Digital Decade, ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee (December 10, 2021)
- Comments in European Commission "Digital Principles" Consultation, ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee (September 1, 2021)
- Comments to European Commission on Proposed AI Regulations, ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee (August 5, 2021)
- Questionnaire Responses to European Commission Consultation on Digital Health Data Services, ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee (July 23, 2021)
- Statement on the Development and Deployment of Digital Green Certificates, ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee (April 19, 2021)
- Comments to European Commission in Digital Services Act Consultation, ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee (March 31, 2021)
2020
- Paper on Gender Bias in Automated Decision Making Systems, ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee (December 10, 2020)
- Comments on the UK National Data Strategy, ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee (December 2, 2020)
- Comments on the EU Climate Ambition for 2030 and for the Design of Certain Climate and Energy Policies of the European Green Deal, ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee (June 22, 2020)
- Comments on European Commission's February 2020 AI White Paper, ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee (June 19, 2020)
- Statement on Security and Privacy Principles for Virtual Meetings, ACM US Technology Policy Committee (May 26, 2020)
- Statement on Essential Principles and Practices for COVID-19 Contact Tracing Applications, ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee (May 5, 2020)
2018
- Letter to Commissioner Carlos Moedas re: Horizon Europe Funding Priorities, ACM Europe Council and ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee (June 12, 2018)
2017
- Statement on Internet of Things Privacy and Security, ACM U.S. Public Policy Council, ACM Europe Council Policy Committee (2017)
- Statement on Algorithmic Transparency and Accountability, ACM U.S. Public Policy Council, ACM Europe Council Policy Committee (2017)
ACM Europe TPC Comments on High Value Datasets
Europe TPC provided the European Commission with specific suggestions for how best to implement newly adopted legislation regarding High Value Datasets. Its key point was that important components of established “FAIR” principles omitted from that statute be expressly included in the pending implementing legislation, particularly provisions addressing the findability and accessibility of data.
Europe TPC Comments on EC Cyber Resilience Consultation
The Committee responded to a detailed “radio button” questionnaire and supplemented its selections with several key written points, including: endorsing the promotion of secure-by-design and secure-by-default engineering approaches; warning of an increased likelihood of state actors, or their proxies, using cyber-attacks; and urging the development of secure-by-design principles specific to machine learning systems.
ACM Europe TPC Comments on "Data Act"
Europe TPC's Comments endorsed the Commission’s intent to ensure "fairness in the allocation of value from data among actors in the data economy and to foster access to and use of data," while specifically urging that the proposed Data Act: be expanded to encompass metadata; address foreseeable environmental impacts; and minimise data processing's complexity and cost.
