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This course will teach you everything you need to know to be a successful Data Protection Officer as required by the GDPR. The course takes place over four days (one day per week) and involves lectures, discussion and practical exercises. This is followed by a written assessment on day 5. Candidates are then required to complete a project (in their own time) to achieve the certificate.
| Technical standards are used daily by businesses, industries, authorities and individuals. Implementing standards may provide businesses and industries advantages over their competitors. For instance, Android and IOS are standardized platforms. Standards may also benefit individuals, as they provide transparency on the methods, processes and quality management of businesses.
Standards are developed for a range of topics such as information security, product safety, social responsibility, privacy, cloud computing and drones. For those who want to understand limitations and possibilities of emerging technologies in our techno-driven society, the understanding of dynamics of technical standardization and its complex legal aspects is highly relevant. This course will start with an introduction to the world of standards, standards-setting processes and governance. In-depth analyses of various legal issues will follow, such as standard-essential patents, copyright protection of technical standards and data privacy standards. The course will include both frontal teaching and interactive teaching. Students will participate in case studies and working sessions in groups. Part of the program is a field trip, during which students will discuss with experts working in the field of standardization. The main focus of the course is on the European legal and policy approach towards technical standardization, but international standardization will also be discussed, such as ISO (International Organization for Standardisation) and W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). The lectures will be provided by the course leaders and guest lecturers from academia and practice. |
Workshop Focus
Rapid advances in technology have recently brought the analytics of shared data close to practical, even if the amounts of data are large and the security and privacy requirements stringent. In particular for fields with highly sensitive data such as genomics or other health domains, the wide range of privacy-preserving analytics technologies promise to enable new and exciting applications and scientific breakthroughs.
Though for real-world use, there remain still open questions on necessary and sufficient levels of privacy, regulatory and legal compliance, public acceptance and end-user usability of privacy-preserving algorithms to just name a few.
Workshop Goals
- To take a step back to compare and contrast recent advances in medical analytics.
- To bring stakeholders from Medicine, Law, and Technology together to get a better understanding of the full range of requirements, capabilities, and constraints.
- Discuss the current state of technology and to identify remaining technical and non-technical hurdles for public adaption.
- To identify promising directions for further research and real-world validation approaches.
The workshop will not publish proceedings: The goal is to share and summarize progress and insights so far in a conference report that will be published. Furthermore, speakers will be free to publish their talks and any accompanying material online.
As wireless and mobile networking becomes ubiquitous, security and privacy become increasingly critical. The focus of the ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACM WiSec) is on the security and privacy aspects of wireless communications, mobile networks, and their applications. In addition to the traditional ACM WiSec topics of physical, link, and network layer security, we also welcome papers focusing on the security and privacy of mobile software platforms and the increasingly diverse range of mobile or wireless applications. The conference welcomes both theoretical as well as systems contributions.
ACM WiSec 2016 will be held from July 18 to July 20, 2016. It will be co-located with PETS 2016 as well as a number of security-related workshops as a part of the Security Week 2016in Darmstadt, Germany.
The goal of this workshop is to identify and discuss the main open research challenges at the intersection of privacy technologies and cryptography that should be prioritised in the coming 5-10 years. The inputs and discussions to the workshop will be the basis of a white paper that contributes to defining the priorities of a strategic research agenda in the field of cryptography and privacy.
The annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) brings together privacy experts from around the world to discuss recent advances and new perspectives on research in privacy technologies. PETS addresses the design and realization of privacy services for the Internet and other digital systems and communication networks.
PETS presents the papers published in the current volume of the journal Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs).
This year, the symposium will be held during Security & Privacy Week SPW 2016, which offers five days of various exciting events, covering many timely topics surrounding the field of security & privacy.
The U.S.-EU Privacy Shield framework, the agreement between the U.S. government and the European Commission that enables continued flows of commercial data from Europe to the United States, is undergoing its first annual review by the Commission and other European institutions. In the U.S., the Trump administration has affirmed support for the framework and its essential pillars, while simultaneously pursuing foreign policies and privacy policies that cause alarm to some Europeans. What will be the outcome of the EU Commission’s review, scheduled to be completed by September, and how will the actions of the Trump administration affect the future of data transfers?
On July 19, Governance Studies at Brookings will host a leading member of the European Parliament on privacy and data protections issues, Jan Philipp Albrecht, to discuss views of the Privacy Shield and consumer data privacy more broadly. How well has the Privacy Shield functioned since it was adopted in July 2016? How might other geopolitical events impact the future of trans-Atlantic data transfers? And what emerging threats pose the greatest risk to data protection in the EU and U.S.?
After the session, speakers will take audience questions. You can follow the conversation on Twitter using #DataProtection.
This workshop addresses various topics and implications related to the transformation of society through digitalization. Over the span of a short time, the world gained vast access to mobile devices, applications, different social networks and cloud services that require more and more connectivity. Computing systems and digitalization are becoming more pervasive and essential to every facet of our lives.
Despite the increasing comfort and efficiency provided through digitalization, this development has a dark side. Our computer systems increasingly store and process sensitive data. They have become attractive targets of various attacks in the promise land of Internet of Everything: They create new levels of monitoring for collecting user profiles, mass surveillance but also sousveillance through users themselves. With the rising number of users, social networks are becoming anti-social. They are used by terrorists and extremists as platforms for hate messages and incitement, by state actors for propaganda and disinformation, and by criminals for fraud. Our society is still in the middle of understanding the magnitude of digitalization and its effects, while the opportunities of new technologies and negative effects are still expanding at the same time.
In this workshop researchers, experts and practitioners will focus on the impact patterns of the above mentioned consequences through current examples as well as a critical assessment and evaluation of debated solutions.
The state of California has a long standing tradition for landmark and forward-thinking privacy laws, often leading the way in passing new and updating existing privacy standards within the United States.
California was one of the first states to provide an express right of privacy in its constitution, was the first state to enact breach-notification legislation and is currently the only state to require a privacy policy. As a result, many companies use California’s standards as their baseline.
Each year, the California Legislature considers a number of bills on privacy issues that have the potential to impact privacy legislation across the nation.
Join us for an update on California’s privacy legislation.
Speakers include:
Joanne McNabb, Director of Privacy Education and Policy, California Attorney General’s Office
Jeremy Gillula, Senior Staff Technologist, EFF
Samantha Corbin, CEO of Corbin & Kaiser and EFF lobbyist