The EDPS - Civil Society Summit
Channel: European Digital Rights
Date: 01/04/2020

SESSION 1: USE CASES

Introduction by Claire Fernandez, Executive Director at EDRi

Conversation with the Supervisor and national DPA representatives about the current use of face recognition and other biometric identification and surveillance technologies and its effects on activists in the EU.

Input:
    • Noémie Levain, La Quadrature du Net, on the use of face recognition in France 
    • Danilo Krivokapic, Director at SHARE Foundation, on the use of face recognition in Serbia 

Followed by open discussion.

SESSION 2: REGULATION

Conversation with the Supervisor and national DPA representatives about the different approaches of regulating face recognition and other biometric identification and surveillance technologies across the EU while balancing risks and benefits of its use.

Input:
    • Ioannis Kouvakas, Legal Officer at Privacy International 
    • Lotte Houwing, Policy Advisor at Bits of Freedom 

Followed by open discussion.

Closing by Wojciech Wiewiórowski, European Data Protection Supervisor


The event was moderated by Alexander Fanta, Brussels correspondent of Netzpolitik.org.


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Privacy Camp is an annual conference held the day before the start of CPDP. The event brings together digital rights advocates, activists as well as academics and policy-makers from all around Europe and beyond to discuss the most pressing issues facing human rights online. Privacy Camp is jointly organised by EDRi, VUB-LSTS, Privacy Salon vzw and the Institute for European Studies at USL-B. 

This 8th edition of Privacy Camp revolved around the topic of Technology and Activism. 

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