Data protection and privacy in the era of outstanding digitization – WS 07 2015

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Session teaser

The Workshop will address data protection and privacy in the era of the Cloud, implications of EU regulations and the right to be forgotten in a context of outstanding digitization.

Session description

The world has changed significantly since the Cloud computing revealed its full potential. Alongside with all the positives aspects of the Cloud our society is facing a rather important issue concerning data protection of individuals and businesses.

Some of the major concerns of individuals and business using the cloud are:

• How is my data protected?

• How is my data used?

• Where is my data, and who has access to it?

• What does the cloud provider do in response to government demands for customer data?

The applicable legal framework shall ensure stability and predictability in terms of data protection, cyber security and data transfer outside EU. Furthermore according to the EU directive (and the national data protection laws) the processing of special categories of personal data is subject to stricter requirements - special categories of personal data: racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade-union membership, and the processing of data concerning health or sex life.

On the other hand IPv6’s huge increase in address space is an important factor in the development of the Internet of Things. With that much number of IPs, humans may easily assign an IP address to every "thing" on the planet. An increase in the number of smart nodes, as well as the amount of upstream data the nodes generate, is expected to raise new concerns about data privacy, data sovereignty and security.

Workshop 7 will address all of the above hot topics and more, if you’re interested in debating Data protection in the era of Cloud computing, Big Data and Internet of Things you shall definitely consider joining the session.

Keywords

Data protection, Data portability, Data transfers, Big data, The right to be forgotten, Human rights, Data protection regulations, IoT, Privacy

Format

The format of the Workshop 7 will be Roundtable Discussion.

The workshop will begin with a short introduction of each participant followed by introduction of the main topic and its challenges. During the workshop a Twitter hashtag will be used in order to involve everyone following the event.

Follow-up session on Workshop 7 will take place where the outcomes will be presented.

Further reading

Aticle 29 Working Party Statements on Cloud Computing

EU Data protection directive

Guidelines to help EU businesses use the Cloud

People

• Focal Point: Radoslav Rizov
• Org team: Frederic Donck, Mariya Hristova, Stanimir Nenov, Nikola Penchev, Iva Todorov, Ventsislav Popov, Alexander Blagoev,
• Key participants|Panelists: PhD Nevin Feti, Radoslav Rizov, Iva Todorova, Nikola Penchev, Stanimir Nenov, Maarten Botterman, Alexander Blagoev, Tsvetelina Dimitrova, Murad Kasim
• Moderator: Radoslav Rizov
• Reporter: Tsvetelina Dimitrova
• Remote moderator: Alexander Blagoev

Current discussion

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Mailing list

Contact: ws7@eurodig.org

Live stream / remote participation

Enter the webex room to participate

Session twitter hashtag

Hashtag: #eurodigws7