Happy Privacy Day! For this episode, we went to the CPDP conference and had the chance to grab some exciting interview partners for you. The CPDP – Computers, Privacy & Data Protection Conference – is one of the most important and interesting conferences on data protection and privacy of the year. This year, the 6th edition of the conference took place, as always, in the heart of Europe. According to the organiser’s website, the:

CPDP is a non profit platform originally founded in 2007 by research groups from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Université de Namur and Tilburg University. From the start CPDP wanted to be more than just an academic platform. The mission is to gather all relevant stakeholders in an atmosphere of independence and mutual respect.

We talked to:

• Paul de Hert, main organiser and driving force behind the CPDP, law professor at the VUB;
• Eric King, head of research at Privacy International about the Global Surveillance Monitor and export controls, FinFisher and the German government,
• Wendy Seltzer, World Wide Web Consortium staff member, founder and developer of the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, research fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet, and speaker on the panel “ablancing fund rights and online copright enforcemet”
• Janneke Sloetjes, Bits of Freedom, about the data protection reform and massive US lobbying
• Andreas Krisch, EDRi president and speaker at the CPDP, about the Data Protection Directive in the law enforcement sector.

And since today is also the international data privacy day, we recommend to sign the Brussels Privacy Declaration: brusselsdeclaration.net

Links:

1. Paul de Hert: http://www.ies.be/llm/staff/pdehert

CPDP: http://www.cpdpconferences.org/

CPDP programme: http://www.cpdpconferences.org/CPDP2013.html#top

1. Eric King: https://www.privacyinternational.org/people/eric-king

privacyinernational: https://www.privacyinternational.org/

global surveillance monitor: https://www.privacyinternational.org/projects/global-surveillance-monitor

FinFisher: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FinFisher

European Parliament Resolution on export controls: http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number10.24/export-controls-digital-weapons

Wassenaar Arragement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassenaar_Arrangement

German government bought FinFisher (german): https://netzpolitik.org/2013/geheimes-dokument-bundeskriminalamt-kauft-international-bekannten-staatstrojaner-finfisherfinspy-von-gamma/

1. Wendy Seltzer: http://wendy.seltzer.org/

W3C: http://www.w3.org/

Berkman Center for Internet and Society @ Havard University: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/

Chilling Effects: chillingeffects.org

1. Janneke Sloetjes, Bits of Freedom: https://www.bof.nl/

Press release: civil rights organizations criticize European privacy proposals: https://www.bof.nl/2013/01/09/press-release-civil-rights-organisations-criticise-european-privacyproposals/

Report by MEP Jan Albrecht on the general data protection regulation (.pdf): http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/libe/pr/922/922387/922387en.pdf

1. Andreas Krisch; President of EDRi: edri.org

Data protection directive for the law enforcement sector: (.pdf) http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/com/com_com%282012%290010_/com_com%282012%290010_en.pdf

Portal for the Directive policingprivacy.eu: policingprivacy.eu

Portal for the Regulation protectmydata.eu: http://protectmydata.eu/