012-01-27 12:13Computer Privacy and Data Protection Conference 2012 - European Data Protection : Coming of Age

On Friday January 27th, LSEC organizes a day on data privacy and data protection. Part of the CPDP 2012 Conference, this day will focus on the implications and practical experiences of data protection in Belgium and Europe.

Data Protection in evolution : Coming of Age

During that day, the discussions will be slightly more focused on some of the practical implementations of the various applicable legislations and challenges by companies, organizations and government in applying them. Besides, the perspective will open up to the point when beyond the compliance to data protection regulations, there is also the aspect of protecting data (including private information) from intended or unintended misuse. During these sessions, we will also focus on some of the potential ways to deal with regulations from an operational perspective by presenting some methodologies, solutions and technologies and also their current challenges.
Finally the day will close with some views and discussions on how to practically deal with upcoming legislations, data leakage challenges and policy requirements by means of some innovative approaches, processes and technologies.

About the CPDP 2012 Conference

The CPDP (Computers, Privacy and Data Protection) conference is neither a purely academic conference nor a business or activist conference. It is a privacy stakeholder conference set up by five academic institutes with the aim to bring together academics, practitioners, policy-makers and civil society so they can meet, exchange ideas and discuss emerging issues of information technology, privacy, data protection and law.

CPDP is organised by the following institutions: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Université de Namur, the Universiteit van Tilburg, the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique and the Fraunhofer Institut für System und Innovationsforschung.

CPDP has progressively been growing since its inception both in terms of speakers, participants and panels and the ambition for its upcoming fifth consecutive edition is higher than ever. Last year’s conference welcomed more than 400 participants, including 180 speakers from all over the world. Its artistic and public side events such as the privacy party, two public debates, film screening and Pecha Kucha evening attracted an additional 800 people. Determined to exceed the positive feedbacks received from speakers and participants from the last years, which range from “excellent” to “brilliant agenda keeping”, this year’s conference offers twelve panels, a pre-conference, several academic and cultural side events and a PhD-evening.

The regular panels include both the presentation of stakeholders’ agenda and intense debates around key issues in the field of privacy, data protection, technology and society. In addition, specific sessions will be dedicated to the issues of ICT and aging, surveillance and law-enforcement and eDiscovery

Practical Details

Business Track Data Protection and Privacy, Friday January 27th, 2012.
Part of the CPDP Conference 2012
Computers, Privacy & Data Protection 2012 conference - European Data Protection : Coming of Age
25, 26 and 27 January 2012 in Les Halles de Schaerbeek in Brussels, Belgium

For more information and registration please surf to: http://www.cpdpconferences.org/ or contact cpdpconference at lsec.be or download the program guide for the full conference.

Preliminary Program January 27th Business Track

Business Track : LSEC in cooperation with CPDP 2012

8.00 : breakfast crash course on privacy & data protection in 2012 : business challenges, regulatory environment in Europe and Belgium, supporting advice - Deloitte

During this first hour, business, IT and legal counsel within corporations and public administrations will be informed about the current and the changing Data Protection landscape and how it affects their business and day to day activities. This introduction into data protection challenges and opportunities will provide a good refreshment or basic understanding .

Data Protection, Computer Security and Privacy in Business

During the following sessions, speakers have been asked to prepare a 15 minute presentations which will be followed by an in depth panel discussion of 20 to 30 minutes.

9.00 : discussing one of the problems : update on data loss challenges, and data breaches, protecting assets

With contributions and presentations by Verizon Business, FFW, RSA, Belgian Privacy Commission.. Wheter they are accidental loss of memory s
Companies and public authorities have been, and continue to challenged by loss of data in various forms and formats. Whether this is in the form of a memory stick lost in a taxi, theft of a laptop on a train, hackers breaking in the company’s websites, or compromised databases because of disgruntled employees; the value of the data and the cost of the loss itself (in case of personal data loss) are an important business risk.

10.30 : coffee break

10.45 : discussing some other problems : technologies causing issues such as the need for privacy by design, personal data versus corporate communications – online social media, acceptable use and trade unions on privacy and network monitoring, on video surveillance and biometrics

With contributions and presentations by Morpho Saffran, DLA Piper, EC JRC and Dimension Data.
Companies and governments are implementing and developing various security systems and measures, in order to better protect and preserve their assets, both people, information and electronic data. But also systems such as surveillance and monitoring solutions are impacting people’s privacy, and their rights as citizens. What are the practical implications? Are their balances to be found? Are there any standard company or trade practices? How should this evolve?

An in depth discussion moderated by LSEC and Deloitte

12.00 : Privacy officers panel discussion. How to tackle the main privacy issues in practice: behavioral advertising, handling social media use on the work floor, data breach and incident management in changed (eg Cloud) environment, PCI-DSS, … discussing the real current issues and challenges

With Privacy Officers and related functions from various European companies in finance, healthcare, public administration, technology and retail.
This discussion will provide insight into the current day to day dealings of corporate or administrative functions and their responsibilities. How do they relate internally within the organization. Are there any best practices or common challenges, similar or different from other security, legal or risk officers?

13.00 : lunch

During the following sessions, speakers have been asked to prepare a 30 minute presentations.

14.00 : Communicating and managing privacy within organizations

With contributions from TU Berlin and Deloitte.
Awareness and creating awareness are important components of a successfull privacy preserving and data protecting policy. In the past, this has proven to be a critical component in most environment. Some experiences on communications and privacy within the organization will be shared.

15.00 : coffee break

30 minute presentations & discussions

15.15 : discussing privacy & data protection technologies : challenges and opportunities

With contributions and presentations from RSA, Traxion, CA Technologies, Microsoft

Data protection technologies are varying from end point encryption on hard disks and portable media, over identification and authentication, information asset management and digital rights to evolutions of data and applications in the cloud. Technologies are evolving, business needs are more demanding, but how to define a suitable strategy and how to find a suitable solution?

17.00 : concluding remarks & next steps – cocktail reception

Special Invitations on request

If you like to participate to the CPDP 2012 program, which is co-organized by LSEC, and if you would like to participate to the Business day on Friday January 27th only, please register at http://www.lsecatcpdp2012.eventbrite.com and ask for a special entry until December 31st.

A special invitation to participate to CPDP 2012 Business day only free of charge can be awarded upon confirmation of the LSEC team after registration only. Only a limited amount of seats can be awarded and will be first come first served.
Priority to LSEC Members, and members of our partners TeleTrusT, SITC, Systematic, Cluster Seguridad and NSM.