2020 International Conference Programme
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All sessions are 1 hour and will include time for questions.
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19 November 2020
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Spotlight California: The CCPA from compliance to enforcement & the new CPRAJennifer Archie, Partner, Latham & Watkins, USA Chair: Stewart Dresner, Chief Executive, Privacy Laws & Business |
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23 November 2020
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Switzerland’s new data protection law’s changes impacting businessUrs Maurer-Lambrou, Delegate International Affairs, Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner Chair: Valerie Taylor, Consultant, Privacy Laws & Business |
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26 November 2020
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International data transfers after the European Court’s Schrems II judgmentWojciech Wiewiórowski, European Data Protection Supervisor Chair: Laura Linkomies, Editor, Privacy Laws & Business |
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30 November 2020
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Nigeria: Operating under the Current Data Privacy and Data Protection FrameworkRotimi Akapo, TMT Partner, Advocaat Law Practice, Nigeria Egypt’s data protection law 2020: Start preparing nowMasha Ooijevaar, Associate, Clyde & Co, UAE Chair: Laura Linkomies, Editor, Privacy Laws & Business |
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3 December 2020
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The increasing Record of Processing Requirements around the globe – A Review & RecommendationsFrank Madden, Principal, Privacy and Data Protection, Promontory, UK Chair: Helena Wootton, Correspondent and Data Lawyer, Privacy Laws & Business |
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7 December 2020
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How the UK is assessing the adequacy of, and free flow of data with, other countries and vice versa in the post Brexit eraOliver Marsh, Head of Data Adequacy (EU/EEA), Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS), UK Chair: Valerie Taylor, Consultant, Privacy Laws & Business
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10 December 2020
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The only way is EthicsRachael Annear, Senior Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, UK Chair: Stewart Dresner, Chief Executive, Privacy Laws & Business |
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14 December 2020
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Regulating AI - Elephants in the roomReuben Binns, Associate Professor of Human Centred Computing, University of Oxford, UK Chair: Stewart Dresner, Chief Executive, Privacy Laws & Business |
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17 December 2020
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Facial recognition technology in an employment and consumer contextBrent Homan, Deputy Commissioner, Compliance, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada Chair: Stewart Dresner, Chief Executive, Privacy Laws & Business |
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11 January 2021
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Data privacy and M&A: the issues you really can’t ignoreRebecca Cousin, Partner, Slaughter and May, UK Chair: Valerie Taylor, Consultant, Privacy Laws & Business |
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18 January 2021
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My business wants to monetize its data – Help!Fiona Maclean, Partner, Latham & Watkins, UK Chair: Helena Wootton, Correspondent and Data Lawyer, Privacy Laws & Business |
Nowhere to Hide is a privacy issue which applies to both individuals and organisations.
Do individuals have somewhere to hide? For the mass of individuals, the question is whether they can pursue their daily lives without always being tracked? For privacy advocates, a high degree of control over the collection and use of one’s personal data is a fundamental right, at least in most of Europe, and increasingly so elsewhere.
Privacy advocates want to maximise anonymity. But there is a tension between this objective and the wish by billions of people to be connected to friends via a host of online services. Research by the Norwegian Consumer Council and academics shows how leading companies influence people by the use of powerful, persuasive techniques that are not transparent.
Adtech, facial recognition and other biometric identification techniques make privacy a concept stretched to breaking point, despite some companies making an effort to adopt anonymising techniques and accountability programmes.
If privacy for individuals is in danger of becoming a mirage, how effective are the countervailing powers? They fall into two main categories:
- regulatory action in the form of Data Protection Authorities’ sanctions (warnings, fines, orders to amend and/or shut down processing etc); and
- growing scope for collective (class) action, in the US; parts of Asia; and in Europe, through GDPR rights for individuals to work together, or via representative organisations, to seek redress for both material and non-material damage.
Do companies have somewhere to hide? Companies are highly visible but often their collection and use of personal data is opaque, as revealed by investigations in Canada and the United Kingdom into Facebook/Cambridge Analytica, and the UK Information Commissioner’s investigations into adtech. Greater transparency is becoming compulsory.
It is now an open question whether data protection law alone can be an effective constraint on corporate appetite for personal data. However, there is a trend in many countries towards the convergence of data protection, consumer and competition laws, such as by the German Federal Cartel Office action against Facebook (not yet concluded). But not all regulators agree that this is an appropriate way forward.
Is there a way to redress the balance to give law abiding individuals somewhere to hide if they wish, and to ensure that companies and the public sector have fewer places to hide from making clear their harvesting of personal data? ‘Data havens’ are fast disappearing as more countries adopt strong data privacy laws, and extra-territorial jurisdiction is starting to become the norm.
Our 33rd Annual International Conference will cover these and many other issues.
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