Technology is getting increasingly complicated. If complex technologies have the potential to cause harm, people may need protection. Such legal protection is increasingly available, but it is only effective if it can also be enforced in courts. If people do not understand what is happening, for instance, with their personal data, they may not go to court at all. When people go to court, they may encounter another problem: if also courts and judges have a limited understanding of how the complex technologies work, this can affect the right to a fair trial. In this paper, it is argued that a fair trial requires that courts and judges need to have sufficient understanding of the technology in cases on which they are ruling. Since not all judges can be trained to have deep understanding of technology, other ways to address this are proposed.

技术变得越来越复杂。如果复杂的技术有可能造成伤害，人们可能需要保护。这种法律保护越来越多，但只有在法庭上得到执行才有效。例如，如果人们不了解自己的个人数据发生了什么，他们可能根本不会上法庭。当人们上法庭时，他们可能会遇到另一个问题：如果法院和法官对复杂技术如何运作的了解有限，这可能会影响公平审判的权利。本文认为，公平审判要求法院和法官在裁决案件时需要对技术有足够的了解。由于并非所有法官都能接受培训以深入了解技术，因此提出了解决此问题的其他方法。