CELS/CIPIL Joint seminar: 'Historic Victory or False Dawn? Analysing the EU Data Protection Regulation'

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Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

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🗓️ 4 May 2016

⏱️ 68 minutes

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On Thursday 28 April, Dr David Erdos, University Lecturer in Law and the Open Society, Faculty of Law & WYNG Fellow in Law, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge gave a CELS/CIPIL Joint Seminar on the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This seminar takes a first look at the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) now finally agreed by the European institutions. Is it a “historic victory” for EU citizens as argued by Viviane Reding - the EU Commissioner responsible for its inception in 2012 - or does it as DIGITALEUROPE suggests fail to "strike the proper balance between protecting citizens’ fundamental rights to privacy and the ability for business in Europe to become more competitive" as well as appropriately reconcile the right to data protection with other fundamental rights? The talk will argue that, whilst the GDPR will further the EU’s track record of safeguarding individuals in a world of ever accelerating technological threats, it is also likely to both entrench and augment many of its pathologies including a lack of clarity as regards goals, a poor fit with liberal freedoms, an excess of bureaucratic red tape, and a large and growing gap between the law on the books and contemporary digital realities. Slides for this presentation are available at: http://www.slideshare.net/DavidErdos1/historic-victory-or-false-dawn-analysing-the-eu-data-protection-regulation

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0:00.0	Okay everybody, you're very welcome this evening and it's a pleasure to be chairing this
0:09.0	joint event by the Centre for European Studies and the Centre for Intellectual Property
0:15.0	and Information Law. We cannot get any more cutting edge on the seminar that we're having this evening on EU data protection law.
0:24.7	I mean, this month we've had the approval of the overall EU data protection package, the regulation
0:31.3	of which data is going to be focusing on today.
0:34.1	Also the directive on law enforcement data processing.
0:37.9	And we've also had the approval of the passenger
0:41.4	name records directive as well.
0:44.0	So again, this could not be more current.
0:48.6	And here to examine whether the European General
0:51.6	Data Protection Regulation does constitute either a historic victory for European
0:57.3	citizens or a false dawn for EU fundamental rights and the EU digital market is David Erdas,
1:05.3	who is a university lecturer here at the faculty, also the lecturer in open society. A fellow also at Trinity
1:13.6	Hall and has published a number of articles in the area of data protection, notably in
1:19.4	leading journals such as Common Market Law Review and the European Law Review. Notably the focus has been
1:24.9	on the balancing, or should I say lack thereof, David, between
1:28.8	data protection and others such...
1:31.3	Sometimes lack thereof.
1:32.3	Sometimes, sometimes lack thereof of, of very significant rights also fall under the charges
1:38.3	such as freedom of expression and those related areas.
1:42.3	And just to give everyone just a little more context to this, we had the general data protection
1:50.0	supervisor described the regulation as a clarion coal for a new global digital gold standard,
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