Summer Academy For Global Privacy Law 2023
From Data Access to Data Transformations: How to Govern Data in the Age of Analytics and AI
About the Academy
19-23 June 2023
Subjects covered will include:
- Personal data & Algorithmic Processing
- Third Party Data Access
- Comparative Perspectives
- Data Access from Third Countries & Data Transfers
- Data Transformations & PETs
The Brussels Privacy Hub is proud to announce its 2023 Summer Academy for Global Privacy Law, after 7 years of successful editions.
Summer Academy Organisers:
Professor Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon, Scientific Coordinator
Barbara da Rosa Lazarotto, Managing Coordinator
Professor Gianclaudio Malgieri, Co-Director Brussels Privacy Hub
Professor Christopher Kuner, Co-Director Brussels Privacy Hub
The Brussels Privacy Hub would like to acknowledge the collaboration and assistance of the following organisations:
Registrations are open until 15 May.
The Faculty
Leonardo Cervera Navas
Director of the Office of the European Data Protection Supervisor
Prof. dr. Ronald Leenes
Professor in Regulation by Technology at Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society
António Biason
European Commission legal and policy officer
Joris Van Hoboken
Professor of Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Isabelle Servoz-Gallucci
Head of the Data Protection Unit of the Council of Europe
Inge Graef
Associate Professor of Competition Law at Tilburg University. She is affiliated to the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) and the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC)
Nikolaos Theodorakis
Of Counsel at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Gianclaudio Malgieri
Brussels Privacy Hub Co-Director
Benjamin Wong
Lecturer at Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
Anne-Sophie Hulin
Assistant Professor at Faculty of Law of the University of Sherbrooke Québec
Prof. dr. Christopher Kuner
Professor of law and Co-director of the Brussels Privacy Hub at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Laura Drechsler
Postdoctoral researcher, Centre for IT & IP Law KULeuven
Bilgesu Sumer
Doctoral researcher KU Leuven (CiTiP))
Flavia Giglio
Research Associate KU Leuven (CiTiP)
Giuseppe D’Acquisto
Senior Technology Policy Advisor – Garante per la Protezione dei dati personali – (Italian Data Protection Authority)
Olivier Blazy
Professor in Cybersecurity, École Polytechnique, France
Mireille Hildebrandt, FBA
Research Professor on ‘Interfacing Law and Technology’ at Vrije Universiteit Brussels, co-Director of the Research Group on Law Science Technology and Society studies (LSTS) at the Faculty of Law and Criminology
Lauren Murphy
Lawyer, Clifford Chance
Andrew Burt
Managing Partner at BnH and Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project
Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon
Senior Privacy Counsel and Legal Engineer at Immuta; Professor in Information Technology Law & Data Governance at the University of Southampton
Audrey Plonk
Head of the Digital Economy Policy (DEP) Division of the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) at the OECD
Hinda Haned
Professor by special Appointment of Data Science Faculty of Science, Informatics Institute
Andrea Gadotti
Honorary Research Associate at Imperial College London
Tania Schroeder
European Commission, Directorate General for Justice and Consumers
The Programme
The Brussels Privacy Hub Summer Academy for Global Privacy Law 2023 will focus on the topic “From Data Access to Data Transformations: How to Govern Data in the Age of Analytics and AI?”.Each day of the Academy will focus on a topic and will deliver a keynote session, lectures, and a workshop, which will give participants the opportunity to apply their knowledge through practical exercises. On top of this, exciting side and networking events with other researchers and civil society will complement the Summer Academy.
Programme structure
DAY 1 – Personal Data and Algorithmic Processing
The first day will focus on the interplay between data protection and algorithmic processing, covering the following topics:
- Data protection, data subjects’ rights and AI
- The interplay between GDPR and AI Act
- Data reuse and risk assessment
DAY 2 – Third-party Data Access
The second day will focus on third-party data access. This will be looked from different perspectives and will dive into the implications of new relevant EU Regulations:
- Data Act and IoT data access
- Access to platform data
- EU Data Spaces
DAY 3 – Comparative Perspectives on Data re-use and sharing
The third day will have a look at how different legal system around the world address the topic of data reuse and sharing, comparing these different approaches.
- Global perspective (e.g., Convention 108+)
- European perspective (e.g., GDPR)
- North American perspectives (e.g., CCPA, PIPEDA)
- Asian perspectives (e.g., DSL, PIPL, DPDP)
DAY 4 – Data Access from third countries and data transfers
The fourth day will focus on the topic of international data transfers. The lectures will look into recent regulations to understand how this works and its complexities.
- Data transfers and the use of data by law enforcement
- International data transfers regulations and risk-based approach
DAY 5 – Data Transformations and PETs
The fifth and final day of the Summer Academy will provide an overview of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs), their application and use cases, the expectations and their possible inconsistencies.
Practical Information
When?
The Summer Academy will take place from 19-23 June 2023.
Where?
The participation at the Summer Academy will take place in a hybrid format.
Online participants will be able to watch lectures and interact via Teams.
The in-person participants will be welcomed in the U-Residence, located at the VUB Main Campus in Brussels. More information on how to reach the venue and a campus map (look for building U) are available on the VUB website.
Language?
English
For whom?
The Summer Academy is aimed at legal practitioners, data protection professionals – including compliance officers, data protection officers, chief privacy officers – civil society representatives and activists, early-career researchers, and all those working in the privacy, data protection and data governance space, at the interface between law and technology.
Prerequisite for participating in the Summer Academy: Familiarity with EU data protection law.
How to register?
Registration is open via Jotform, accessible here. Registration is open until 15 May.
Registration Fees
• Professionals – €1.250 (early bird: €1.050)
• Ph.D Students – €1.050 (early bird: €825)
• Students – €850 (early bird: €600)
Early bird applies until 31 March 2023
Cancellation Policy
More information on cancellation will be provided at a later date on this page. To receive information on the Summer Academy, be sure to follow Brussels Privacy Hub on LinkedIn or Twitter, or subscribe to the newsletter below..
Ukrainian Scholarship
Brussels Privacy Hub announces three registration fee waivers for the Summer Academy for Global Privacy Law 2023 for Ukrainian applicants.
Waivers do not include accommodation or transportation support. Applicants may choose to join either in-person or online. Ukrainian applicants will be subject to a separate registration procedure.
Prior familiarity with the data protection law is required. Selection will be concluded by the Brussels Privacy Hub team on an objective basis.
Ukrainian applicants shall apply by selecting the Ukrainian Scholarship option in the registration form.
Applicants will be contacted by the Brussels Privacy Hub team and will be asked to submit proof of their Ukrainian citizenship or (prior) residency, a short cover letter (max 350 words) explaining their background and another short statement (450 words) about why they are in need of the waivers.
Criteria that will be applied by the Brussels Privacy Hub will aim to choose:
• Applicants who are Ukrainian citizens,
• Applicants who have been relocated from Ukraine as of 2022, or, who are still
residing in Ukraine.
Priority will be given to younger candidates (Ph.D. researchers, PostDoc researchers,
lawyers).
Selection will be completed after the application deadline. If Brussels Privacy Hub receives an excessive amount of applications, it may choose to close the application procedure, in order to better analyze the existing applications. Brussels Privacy Hub may ask for the submission of the Ukrainian ID/Passport in order to ensure the integrity of the application, during the selection procedure. In such a case, Brussels Privacy Hub Privacy Policy applies. The documents will not be stored on any
servers and will be deleted upon authentication of the citizenship.
Brussels Privacy Hub is more than happy to support Ukrainian colleagues in such a hard time.
Privacy Notice
Date: 16 February 2023
This Privacy Notice describes how we collect and use your personal data in the context of the Brussels Privacy Hub Summer Academy programme.
Identity of the controller
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel is responsible for the processing of your personal data as described in this Privacy Notice. You can reach us at info@brusselsprivacyhub.org.
The information we collect and process
We collect the following information:
- Your name
- Your contact details
- Your participant category (student or professional)
- Your affiliation
- Your biography and motivation letter
- Your IP-address
- Your dietary preference
How we collect your information
We collect the information you submit in the registration form on JotForm and the information you submit to us via mail or social media.
Why do we collect your information
We collect your information to provide services in relation to our Summer Academy for Global Privacy Law (article 6(1)(b) GDPR).
- Your name and contact details are collected to enable communication and provide personalized items such as name tags during the event.
- Your participant category is collected to invoice according to the differentiated participation fees.
- Your affiliation is collected to better adapt the content of the Summer Academy to the different participants.
- Your dietary preference is collected to be able to offer lunch in accordance with the participants wishes during the Summer Academy.
- Your biography and motivation letter is collected to be able to select participants.
We may also use personal data in other ways for which we provide specific notice at the time of collection.
Whether we share or disclose your information
We may disclose personal data to our processors or authorize them to process the data to pursue one or more of these purposes. Our processors include:
Jotform
Microsoft
Retention and deletion of your information
The data will be stored for the period of organization and activity of the Summer Academy and for a maximum of 6 months. After this period, all personal data related to your participation will be deleted.
Your rights
You have the right to:
– To access your personal data and obtain all the information on the processing as mentioned in Article 15 Regulation 679/2016, hereinafter GDPR, (origin, purpose, lawful grounds, details about the data controller, recipients, duration, other data subjects’ rights, etc.).
– You also have the right to rectify your personal data, update, delete or request limitation of processing. The content and exercise of these rights is regulated by Articles 15-18 of the GDPR. Finally, the data subject has the right to revoke the consent for the processing of his/her personal data. The revocation of consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing based on the consent given before the revocation.
– You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Supervisor if he or she believes that the processing of his or her personal data is in breach of the GDPR, pursuant to and in accordance with Article 77 of that Regulation.
To exercise your data subject rights, please contact us at info@brusselsprivacyhub.org. In addition, you can also reach the Data Protection Officer of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel at DPO@vub.be.
How to contact us
You can submit a request or ask us questions about this Privacy Notice or our practices by emailing us at info@brusselsprivacyhub.org, emailing our DPO at DPO@vub.be or writing us at:
Brussels Privacy Hub
Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Elsene
Belgium
Updates to our privacy notice
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time and without prior notice to you to reflect changes in our personal data practices. We will indicate at the top of the policy when it was most recently updated.