GDPR guest lecture 2: An exploration of hot-topic issues in the field of privacy law
As part of teaching activities offered at the elective course JUS-294-2-A “Privacy and data protection – GDPR”, all our students and other persons interested in data protection and the GDPR are warmly welcome to join four guest lectures. The lectures are held by privacy and data protection experts working in both public and private sector. For details concerning the guest lecturers, topics of their lectures and participation, please check the invitations below.
Hovedinnhold
All interested students and other data protection enthusiasts are now kindly invited to register for a guest lecture with Kristian Bygnes from the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (Datatilsynet).
Wherever you go, there you are. If you go online, that activity will most likely be tracked and analyzed. Increasingly, that is also the case for when you move and interact offline. Discussions about online tracking tends to focus on the big (tech) actors performing and monetizing this tracking. Naturally, their practices and the potential consequences of their actions merit scrutiny.
Change is however not contingent on the good will of big actors to unilaterally decide to limit their tracking. The field of privacy law contains a multitude of different players that in some ways tries to navigate privacy law and EU-institutions to resist privacy invasive practices. This presentation tries to explore and give a high-level overview of the current hot-topic issues currently being discussed and decided in the field of privacy law, primarily connected to different ways your personal data is being used online.
Kristian Bygnes graduated from the University of Bergen law programme. His master thesis considered the legal status of inferences (assumptions made about a person based on collected data and probability) under the GDPR. After graduating, he interned for the privacy organization noyb in Vienna, where he worked closely on the “Out of Control” project by the Norwegian Consumer Council and the complaints filed against the adtech industry in conjunction with the published report. He currently works at the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (Datatilsynet).
Time and place:
15. mars 12.15 – 14.00 on Zoom
https://uib.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5wpduitrT4sH9R1qOiIggjDJ3dX6rIBZL5R