Privacy in the age of data: Regulation for human rights and the economy
The Friends of Europe recently released a discussion paper, ‘Policy choices for a digital age – taking a whole economy, whole society approach’ at the closing plenary of the European Commission co-organised Net Futures 2017 conference in Brussels.
Various other interesting info
Research Professor Mireille Hildebrandt, from Vrije Universiteit Brussels, published open access the paper “Privacy as the Protection of the Incomputable Self: Agonistic Machine Learning“, where she argues, using law, philosophy and insights from computer science, that “in the era of big data analytics we need an understanding of privacy that is capable of protecting what […]
DPAs/Enforcement
Investigations, sanctions CNIL publicly served a formal notice to WhatsApp, claiming the lack of legal basis for the company transferring data to Facebook after its acquisition. CNIL is the latest DPA that went after connected toys (“My friend Cayla” and “I-que”). It served a “formal notice to cease serious breach of privacy due to lack […]
ePrivacy Reg
The Council published a full text of the ePrivacy draft Regulation, as it stands right now. Be aware that this is not the final version adopted by the Council, but only the current version being discussed. The Register published an interview with Birgit Sippel, the MEP Rapporteur for the ePrivacy Regulation, where she criticizes the […]
GDPR
Guidance (see also the Article 29 Working Party/EDPB page) ICO seeks comments from stakeholders following the publication of draft guidance on children and GDPR. The FPF published a Chart of Potential Harms from Automated Decision-Making, which is a very useful tool to identify potential risks of processing of personal data for those who are conducting […]
Case-law (CJEU, ECHR, national courts)
CJEU The CJEU decided in Case C-434/16 Nowak that the written answers to a test, as well as the examiner’s comments on those answers, are personal data of the person who takes the test. However, the questions of the test are not personal data (this may result in a situation where a person receives a […]
The Brussels Privacy Symposium November 6, 2017 | Brussels, Belgium
The 2nd Annual Brussels Privacy Symposium is a global convening of practical, applicable, substantive privacy research and scholarship. The Symposium will draw on the expertise of leading EU and US academics, industry practitioners and policy makers to produce an annual workshop highlighting innovative research on emerging privacy issues. The 2017 Symposium, titled AI Ethics: The […]
The Brussels Privacy Symposium: Presentations
PRESENTATIONS Selected authors from multiple disciplines including law, computer science, statistics, engineering, social science, ethics and business will present papers at this full-day program in Brussels on November 6, 2017. Presentations will be posted below. This page will be updated. Please check back soon. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Workshop Registration Workshop Agenda […]
The Brussels Privacy Symposium: Final Papers
FINAL PAPERS Selected authors from multiple disciplines including law, computer science, statistics, engineering, social science, ethics and business will present papers at this full-day program in Brussels on November 6, 2017. See the final papers below. This page will be updated. Please check back soon. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Workshop Registration Workshop Agenda […]
The Brussels Privacy Symposium: Abstracts
ABSTRACTS Selected authors from multiple disciplines including law, computer science, statistics, engineering, social science, ethics and business will present papers at this full-day program in Brussels on November 6, 2017. See the titles and authors of the selected abstracts below. Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Enhanced Data Stewardship Martin Abrams, Peter […]