Abstract:

Douwe Korff will explain what data protection is (and what it isn't, i.e. not data security and not privacy), what its basic principles are – and why the laws don't work. He will show that the legal rules are predicated on assumptions which do not hold, and that enforcement is haphazard and negotiable. But he will also show how something like data protection is going to be crucial if the individual is to be protected against major (public and private) institutions and interests. And he will then try and discuss with the audience how the problems can be overcome.

Speaker:

Douwe Korff is a Dutch human rights lawyer and data protection expert. Now a professor of international law at London Metropolitan University, he has worked in both (overlapping) fields for Amnesty International, the Council of Europe and the EU Commission as well as the direct marketing industry.