Conference Chairperson & Opening Remarks

Adam Finlay, Partner, McCann Fitzgerald

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Art. 46 GDPR Transfers subject to appropriate safeguards & Art. 49 GDPR Derogations for specific situations

DaraghO Brien, Managing Director, Castlebridge

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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

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Retention of Communications Data

Adam Finlay, Partner, McCann Fitzgerald

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