Conference Chairperson & Opening Remarks
Adam Finlay, Partner, McCann Fitzgerald
EU AI Act- Governance and Regulation from the perspective of autonomy and privacy
- How should AI governance address group interests, group privacy and abnormal justice?
- How can governance mechanisms mitigate automated stigmatisation and discrimination related to gender?
- What does the use of live facial recognition mean for ‘public’ space, and should police be allowed to test these biometric technologies in real settings?
- How will the design and deployment of predictive policing systems be affected by the EU AI Act?
Joshua Hovsha, Data Protection Consultant & Researcher Trinity College Dublin
Cookies and Data Privacy
- Effective transparency and control measures (including privacy icons): the example of cookie banners. Where do we stand now?
- What are the most recent/prominent examples of good and bad transparency and control measures in practice?
- Which approaches exist in research to design and test good transparency and control measures?
- Which roles do PIMS, CMP and browsers play in this context?
- What is the regulator’s point of view on this?
Eoin Cannon, Data Protection Consultant
EU Cloud Code of Conduct: Operationalising GDPR Compliance
- What are the advantages of co-regulatory instruments?
- How does the EU Cloud Code of Conduct support the day-to-day compliance of Cloud Service Providers?
- What is the Third Country Transfer Initiative and how can it help address some of the recent challenges with international data transfers?
Kate Colleary, Director Pembroke Privacy, Country Leader – IAPP
The Future of The Right to Access
- Why is the right to access so important?
- What threatens the right to access?
- Right to access: transparency tool or privacy threat?
- How to fix the right to access?
Ronan Lupton SC, Law Library
Discussing The Potential and Challenges of Private Actions for GDPR Infringements
- Why does the one-stop-shop fail to effectively remedy GDPR cross-border infringements?
- How do national divergences in substantive and procedural laws impact cross-border private actions?
- What are the specific challenges faced by NGOs when bringing cross-border private actions, and what are the recent private actions launched?
- What is the interlink between the Collective Redress Directive and the GDPR, and does it signal the advent of a new era for GDPR enforcement?
Laura Fannin, Partner, Commercial & Business Team at Hayes Solicitors
Data Retention Policies
- What is the compliance level with retention requirements?
- Structured versus unstructured data retention and technical approaches?
- What can we do with a data processor who doesn't have a retention policy in place?
- With third parties, how far does a data controller have to go to ensure they have proper retention policy in place?
Liam McKenna, Partner, and Head of Privacy, Mazars
Art. 46 GDPR Transfers subject to appropriate safeguards & Art. 49 GDPR Derogations for specific situations
DaraghO Brien, Managing Director, Castlebridge
The future of International Transfers
- Adequacy as a basis for cross border transfers
- Rules for assessing adequacy-fit for purpose?
- The EU’s adequacy decision in favour of the UK-will it last?
- The future of the UK’s data protection regime
- Will we ever see an effective EU/US transfer regime?
Patricia McGovern, Head of Intellectual Property and Business Departments, DFMGSolicitors
Retention of Communications Data
Adam Finlay, Partner, McCann Fitzgerald
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