Day 1 – Monday July 7th, 2008
08.30-18.00 Registration in the Fisher Building
09.00 Early session: The transatlantic war over information
James Michael, Editor, Privacy Laws & Business International Newsletter, UK
10.00 Chairman’s introduction: Value Privacy, Secure Your Reputation, Reduce Risk
Stewart Dresner, Chief Executive, Privacy Laws & Business
10.15 Integrating privacy compliance into AstraZeneca's corporate culture and behaviour
Nick Tyler, Data Protection & Privacy Solicitor, AstraZeneca, UK
- AstraZeneca & the Pharmaceutical Industry - global data privacy challenges
- AstraZeneca's Code of Conduct - the key to affecting corporate culture and behaviour
- AstraZeneca's Global Compliance Office - Function and Mission
- AstraZeneca's Global Privacy Office - advocacy, education and policing
- Global Data Privacy Practice Centre - a focal point for legal advice
- Making the personal transition from UK Regulator to Global Controller
10.45 How principles of ethics and leadership can enhance privacy practices
Carter Manny, Professor of Business Law, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, USA
- Applying a multi-step process for ethical decision-making
- Valuing ethical analysis as enhancing reputation and reducing
risk
- Avoiding the limitations of "microscopic vision"
- "Exercising leadership" with or without authority
- Recognizing whether a challenge needs an "adaptive" or a
"technical" response (or both)
11.15 Coffee
11.35 Information Commissioner’s Office – Higher Profile? Stronger Powers? More Effective?
Richard Thomas, Information Commissioner, UK
Chair: Stewart Dresner, Chief Executive, Privacy Laws & Business
Parallel 1 – International
Chair: James Michael, Editor, Privacy Laws & Business International Newsletter
12.30 How the CNIL organises inspections and enforcement of data protection law in France
Yann Padova, Secretary General, CNIL, France
Parallel 2 – United Kingdom
Chair: Stuart Lynch, Consultant, Privacy Laws & Business, UK
12.30 Employing a Private Investigator to Conduct Surveillance
Les Kingstone, Data Protection Officer, Aegon, UK
- AEGON's experience in using PI's
- Purpose of employing PI's
- How does a PI fit into our process of managing a claim?
- Appointing of a PI - two different scenario's
- Contractual undertaking
- ABI Guidelines
- Approval of a PI to conduct surveillance
- What happens to the data?
- How would evidence gathered be approved for use in Court?
- Auditing PI's - all of the fun and toys
Parallel 3 – Ethics
Chair: tbc
12.30 Ethics case study discussions on how principles of ethics and leadership can enhance privacy practices
Carter Manny, Professor of Business Law, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, USA
This session will allow participants to apply principles of ethics and leadership in small group discussions while considering privacy issues in hypothetical business situations.
13.10 Lunch in The Hall
Plenary: Tensions between privacy and other values
Chair: James Michael, Editor, Privacy Laws & Business International Newsletter
14.10 The interaction between data protection and other laws creating harmony and conflict
Ariane Mole, Partner, Bird & Bird, France
14.40 Social Networking in the Workplace - What's the Fuss?
Andrew Woolfson, Director of Knowledge Management, BDO Stoy Hayward
- how social networking slowly captures interest within the firm
- how different people respond
- values ultimately drive the response
- process around policy creation
- current status
Parallel 1 – Commercial objectives via social networking
Chair: Lokke Moerel, Partner ICT, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, the Netherlands
15.10 Balancing privacy rules and your commercial objectives in social networking communities
Lokke Moerel, Partner ICT, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, the Netherlands
Targeted Behavioral Marketing
Alisa Bergman, Partner, Sonnenschein Nath and Rosenthal, Belgium
Communicating with consumers about data use: Challenges and taking opportunities to educate them about informed consent
Jules Polonetsky, Chief Privacy Officer, Senior Vice President, Consumer Advocacy, AOL, USA
Parallel 2 – Freedom of Information
Chair: Stuart Lynch, Consultant, Privacy Laws & Business, UK
15.10 How the FOI Act supports Transparency and Accountability in Public Spending
Graham Smith, Deputy Information Commissioner, UK
15.40 The Information Tribunal – Three Years On
John Angel, Chairman, Information Tribunal, UK
16.10 Tea
Parallel 1 - IP addresses as personal data
Chair: Lokke Moerel, Partner ICT, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, the Netherlands
16.30 IP addresses as personal data: The legal challenges from aiming for both security and privacy
Ilias Chantzos, Director EMEA & Asia Pacific Japan, Government Relations, Symantec Corporation, Belgium
A fine line between personalisation and surveillance
Should computer (IP) addresses be considered personal data? If so, what are the implications for data protection laws covering search engine data and the retention and use of this data for targeted advertising by search engines and other organisations?
Rosa Barcelo, Legal Adviser to the European Data Protection Supervisor, Belgium
Parallel 2 – Freedom of Information (continued)
Chair: James Michael, Editor, Privacy Laws & Business International Newsletter
16.30 How the Freedom of Information Act challenges the balance of power
Maurice Frankel, Director, Campaign for Freedom of Information, UK; Richard Thomas, Information Commissioner, UK
17.15 How European Data Protection Authorities interpret the definition of personal data: Results of a Linklaters survey
Richard Cumbley, Partner, Linklaters, London
Chair: Bojana Bellamy, Global Data Privacy Compliance Lead, Accenture, UK
- A review of recent guidance and European case law on the interpretation of personal data
- National variations in interpretation of the concept - the results of a new Linklaters survey in the EU
- Particular issues with IP addresses
- Practical implications for handling subject access requests, international disclosure and litigation
17.50 Close
18.00 Guided Walks and Cambridge Folk Museum Tour
18.45 Drinks
19.30 Dinner in The Hall
21.00 Party in the Lower Pythagoras featuring: The Fore (www.theforeband.com), Private Eye (PL&B Band), and Replay with live karaoke
Day 2: Tuesday 8th July
Day 3: Wednesday 9th July
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