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The interdisciplinary summerschool on privacy provides an intensive one week academic post-graduate programme teaching privacy from a technical, legal and social perspective. The goal of the summerschool is to provide students with a solid background in the theory of privacy construction, modelling and protection from these three different perspectives. It also aims to help them to establish a first international network with peers and senior academics across these disparate disciplines.
Join ATI for policy forums that bring key constituents together to craft a path forward to a modern mobility future. Four sessions over two months will move the needle on national policies and regulations to enable autonomous vehicle deployment.
Each half-day forum will address a different section of NHTSA’s Federal Automated Vehicle Policy with senior executives from government and industry. The sessions will each feature a keynote speaker, panel discussion, lunch, and an interactive segment that will encourage audience participation.
Get involved and make a difference. As a sponsor of a single forum or the series, you will help promote development and adoption of technologies that will ensure safe and efficient transportation of people and goods. Your company will have a speaking opportunity, be recognized as a sponsor, and receive the attendee list with contact information.
Modern mobility is in a formative stage. Now is the time to demonstrate your company’s thought-leadership!
For more information and to register visit ATI21 AV Policy Series
A two-day, international conference organized by Carleton and Sheffield Universities following the successful Data Power 2015 Conference held in the UK.
Call for abstracts:
Increasingly pervasive in our daily lives, data are constituted through converging technologies and practices such as the internet of things, smart cities, drones and precision agriculture; global finance, credit scoring and data brokerage firms; surveillance, predictive policing and customer relation management systems, to name a few. Data are also generated by and flow through applications, software, platforms, and infrastructures that reshape how we play, work, eat, socialise, see ourselves, and know the world. In an era of data power, data have become agentic, especially when input into black-boxed algorithms and systems whose outputs are used to profile and sort us, influence the political economy, and for purposes for which no consent was given. Is this a ‘fait accompli’?
To answer this question, the Data Power 2017 conference asks: How can we reclaim some form of data-based power and autonomy, and advance data-based technological citizenship, while living in regimes of data power? Is it possible to regain agency and mobilize data for the common good? To do so, which theories help to interrogate and make sense of the operations of data power? What kind of design frameworks are needed to build and deploy data-based technologies with values and ethics that are equitable and fair? How can big data be mobilized to improve how we live, beyond notions of efficiency and innovation?
This conference creates a space to reflect on these and other critical issues relating to data’s ever more ubiquitous power. To date, the following keynote speakers and commentators on data power have been confirmed:
- Helen Nissenbaum, New York University, co-author of Obfuscation: A User’s Guide to Privacy and Protest with Finn Brunton (2015), and PI of the Values in Design project;
- Paul N.Edwards, University of Michigan, author of A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (2010);
- Stefania Milan, University of Amsterdam, author of Social Movements and Their Technologies: Wiring Social Change (2016), and PI of the DATACTIVE project;
- Frank Pasquale, University of Maryland, author of The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Information (2015).
Papers and sessions are invited on the following – and other relevant – topics:
- The political economy of data
- Data and journalism
- Theorizing data
- The politics of data visualization
- Data labour
- The social life of data and data-driven methods
- The politics of open and linked data
- Data-driven governance, surveillance and control
- Data, discrimination and inequality
- Social, ethical and legal issues
- Data citizens
- Data activism, citizen engagement and advocacy
- Data, genealogy and power
- Data power and violence
- Critical cultural and feminist approaches to data
- Resistance, agency and appropriation.
Information/details
- Whilst we welcome papers and session proposals of all kinds, please note that this conference focuses on critical questions about data’s power and also papers that are critical and/or reflective with regards to the social and cultural consequences of the rise of data’s power.
- 250-300 word abstract
- The deadline for paper proposals is Friday 27th January 2017.
- The conference fee is $225 (CAD) for all, and $90 (CAD) for students.
- The organising committee will select papers for a special issue on Data Power in the following peer reviewed journals: The Canadian Journal of Communication and Online Information Review.
- Ottawa is Canada’s Capital, and is celebrating its 150th Anniversary in 2017. The City is home to numerous international museums and galleries, and Carleton University is set along the beautiful Rideau River and the Rideau Canal.
After last year’s success, we are pleased to invite you to an exceptional conference gathering a very high-level selection of regulators, lawyers, advertisers, publishers and politics to discuss about individual privacy in a data driven world.
Save the date for Thursday, June 22, 2017 from 08:30am to 08:00pm.
Have a look at last year’s Facebook album
Featuring
Kent Walker
Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Google Inc.
And a Moderated Discussion Hosted by
Paul Rosenzweig
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Department of Homeland Security;
Founder, Red Branch Consulting; and Visiting Fellow, The Heritage Foundation
Governments around the world want Internet companies to help with law enforcement investigations. Consumers want Internet services to protect their privacy and rights to due process. Unfortunately, today’s legal frameworks don’t do enough to promote either goal.
Kent Walker, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Google Inc., will share ideas about how to allow law enforcement agencies to obtain digital evidence in a timely manner, protect consumers’ privacy rights, recognize nations’ sovereign rights, and avoid the Balkanization of the global Internet.
The workshop will bring together key stakeholders, technologists, and researchers
from government, industry, academia, and the broader privacy community to discuss privacy risks
in the burgeoning IoT environment. The agenda will include presentations and panel discussions
by key stakeholders and prominent researchers, as well as breakout group discussions among all
participants.
The Internet of Things implies qualitative and quantitative changes in the nature of personal data
collection. As such, there is a great need to understand the privacy risks these changes entail. The
goal of the workshop is to collectively investigate IoT privacy risks that have already been
identified, evaluate the likelihood and severity of those risks, and to discuss new risks that may
not have yet surfaced in literature or discourse.
The conference addresses cybersecurity – the security of data and information as well as protection against cyber-attacks and network security. Cybersecurity concerns every one of us. Cyber-attacks and privacy invasions have already become part of our daily lives. Anyone can be a victim. International corporations, banks, non-profit organizations and the average Pole are targets of hacking attacks.
The costs of such attacks are very high – including expenses incurred by the organization to secure their data as well as a reputational risk and increased sense of insecurity. The security experts have long been explained how to defend better. So why do incur the very large costs we could avoid?
One of the main reasons is the fact that the binding provisions of law do not provide adequate guidance. They usually require “reasonable” or “appropriate” security measures, but fail to provide further. The endless series of data infringements reveals imperfection of the current legal regime. How should we change the regulations? Should we implement our own business practices to solve the problem? What should be the role of the insurance industry protecting against increasing cyber- attacks?
The objective of the conference is to present current practices in the field of cybersecurity, general information, in particular about data infringement, as well as current activities aimed at mitigating the impact of the financial events on infringement effects. The conference shall include four panels: Academic, Business, Government ad Technical. Each
Democratic societies under threat rely on intelligence and law enforcement agencies to maintain security and protect their borders. At the same time, they must incorporate policies, processes and tools to ensure respect for privacy and civil liberties. Big data collection and analytics capabilities unlock tremendous economic and societal value. But as they use citizens’ and consumers’ information, governments and businesses must maintain individuals’ privacy rights and ensure information is accurate, timely and secure.
The workshop will explore the fragile balance between national security and individual rights in an environment where technological breakthroughs can be put to good or malevolent ends. It will consider the role of private sector companies in protecting private and public infrastructure while respecting privacy and civil liberties. It will address the role of government in protecting critical infrastructure and valuable technologies while respecting individual rights.
2nd European Data Protection Law Summer School: The GDPR is Now
The Brussels Privacy Hub is proud to announce the 2nd European Data Protection Law Summer School, which will take place between 26 – 30 June 2017. Building on the success of the inaugural 2016 session, and under the title ‘The GDPR is Now’, the 2nd European Data Protection Law Summer School will equip participants to deal with the many challenges that lie ahead when the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enters into force in May 2018. This practical dimension will be combined with a more general exploration of the evolving global and European privacy landscape, with a particular emphasis on transatlantic issues, and current policy debates (including the ongoing review of the EU E-Privacy Directive).
The Brussels Privacy Hub’s European Data Protection Law Summer School has a marked multi-stakeholder character, and allows participants to network with the principal EU data protection institutions and actors in Brussels. Teaching staff will consist of leading academics in EU data protection law, public and private legal practitioners, and representatives of key EU institutions.
Goals: Participants in the European Data Protection Law Summer School:
- acquired solid knowledge of the EU data protection landscape, and in particular EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other key EU data protection legal instruments, covering key issues such as:
- obligations of data controllers and data processors (including accountability,
- data subject rights,
- data protection and privacy impact assessments (DPIAs),
- data breach notifications,
- Data Protection Officers (DPOs),
- the role of Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) and the European Data Protection Board (EDPB);
- understand the legal challenges of privacy from a European perspective, with special focus on transatlantic discussions;
- gained first hand insights into the functioning of EU-level privacy and personal data protection law.
Programme: The provisional programme is now available. Please note that the programme may be subject to change.
Date: 26-30 June 2017
Location: Institute for European Studies (IES) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Pleinlaan 5, B-1050, Brussels.
Language: English.
Target audience: The summer school is aimed at legal practitioners, public and private sector data protection professionals – including compliance officers, data protection officers, data policy officers – civil society professionals, early career academic researchers, and others who work in the areas of privacy and data protection law. Prior familiarity with the field is required.
Certificate: Participants will receive a certificate of attendance indicating that they have attended the full programme.
Registration:
Participants can register for the course by completing the Registration Form.
NB: The number of places is limited to 30 places.
The deadlines for registration are as follows:
- Early bird registration: 31 March 2017
- Standard registration: 2 June 2017
| Early bird | Standard | |
| Professionals | 1700 € | 1900 € |
| Early career academic researchers | 1500 € | 1700 € |
| Civil society | 1300 € | 1500 € |
Accommodation: The registration fee does not include accommodation.
- The VUB U-residence provides accommodation on the VUB Campus
- Other accommodation is available in Brussels: www.booking.com or www.airbnb.com
Summer school organisers
- Professor Gloria González Fuster, Summer School Co-ordinator
- Amy Weatherburn, Summer School Assistant
Previous summer schools
Cancellation Policy
Cancellation must be done in writing.
Cancellation one month before the beginning of the summer school: 100% refund
Cancellation less than one month before the beginning of the summer school: 250 euros.
Cancellation less than two weeks before the beginning of the summer school: no refund available.
Further information
Amy Weatherburn
Brussels Privacy Hub, Law Science and Technology,
Building B,
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pleinlaan 2
B-1050 Brussels
Belgium
E: [email protected]
W: www.brusselsprivacyhub.org
