New privacy developments in Europe

Professor Lee Bygrave, University of Oslo Faculty of Law

Tuesday, 23 July 2013

12:30 for 12:45 -1:45pm, including time for questions and discussion

Law Faculty Board room, 2st Floor (just inside glass doors to main part of faculty)
Faculty of Law building
UNSW lower campus (near Roundhouse), Kensington, Sydney
Map: http://www.unsw.edu.au/maps/kensington.pdf

Abstract:

Professor Bygrave's presentation on 'New privacy developments in Europe' will focus on the European Union's development of a new Regulation to replace the 1995 Data Protection Directive, including such controversial matters as a 'right to be forgotten'.

European discussions are now reaching a crucial stage, with the Irish Presidency of the EU arguing for a shift toward a more 'risk based' approach in preference to what is claimed to be the prescriptive approach of the current draft.

The international context of these controversial changes is heightened by both the commencement of EU/US free trade negotiations, and Mr Edward Snowden's revelations of the extent of US and UK surveillance activities.

Professor Bygrave will also touch on other European developments such as the privacy and data protection case law of the European Court of Human Rights.

This presentation is courtesy of the Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre, UNSW Faculty of Law. (Our recent report 'Data Sovereignty and the Cloud' touches on some of the topics covered in this talk.)

Professor Lee Bygrave of the University of Oslo Faculty of Law is one of the leading scholars in Europe in the field of data protection and privacy.

Entry is free, no need to book. Please RSVP to feedback [at] cyberlawcentre.org.

URL: http://www.cyberlawcentre.org/2013/talks/ltt_bygrave.htm