European privacy officials tackle the big issues at Brussels conference

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🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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The International Association of Privacy Professionals’ Europe Data Protection Congress attracted large crowds in Brussels last week, with a plenty of meaty policy and enforcement issues on the table. Irish Data Protection Commission head Helen Dixon suggested that the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation’s system of cross-border enforcement wasn’t “built for speed;” while a trio of Meta Platforms companies — Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram — are being scrutinized by the bloc’s national data-protection authorities over privacy concerns. Privacy advocate Max Schrems delighted the audience with some props – a black box and rubber stamp – to criticize a new court set up by the latest EU-US data transfer agreement, which he vowed to challenge. MLex’s Brussels-based data-privacy team was able to beat the crowds, follow the ins and outs of the debates and buttonhole key players at the margins of the conference. Our reporters recorded this podcast as the conference wound down.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to a special edition of the M-LX podcast. My name is Matthew Newman, and we're coming to you this week from the IAPP
0:19.5	Europe Data Protection Congress that was
0:21.7	held in Brussels, Belgium.
0:24.0	There were plenty of significant issues on the agenda this week, and we're going to
0:28.9	go over some of those important issues such as data transfers, new legislation, and enforcement
0:35.5	of the EU's landmark privacy legislation, the general data protection
0:40.0	regulation.
0:41.4	I've been covering the conference for MLEX alongside my colleague Nick Ballas and Sam Clark,
0:47.0	who are sitting around the table with me right now.
0:49.4	Hello and welcome to this podcast.
0:52.5	Nick, I'm going to start out with you.
0:55.0	If you could give us a little bit of your impressions of the atmosphere at this year's conference.
1:00.0	Well, it was big.
1:03.0	This is the first time I've ever had to queue to get into a privacy conference or any other policy conference for that matter.
1:10.0	I mean, it hit home with me that data protection really is an area that's drawing in a lot of
1:16.6	interest and including from a lot of young professionals.
1:20.6	For those who don't know Brussels, this conference has been held at the square, which is the largest
1:25.6	conference centre in central Brussels and yet the
1:28.1	place was was heaving and the other thing that that struck me was that you know there is a now
1:35.4	and almost kind of rock star aura around some of the big names in data protection I suppose the
1:41.0	most obvious one being Max Schrems who had a session in the afternoon
1:46.0	and I was coming out of the session before which was held in the same room. It was a good 20 minutes
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