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The Right to be Forgotten

 

This panel will consider the highly publicised EU Court of Justice case preliminarily establishing the right to be forgotten. It will discuss the complex relationship raised in said case, between the right to privacy, the right to be forgotten and the right to information, and will attempt not only to define these rights, but to find a way to protect them in such a way that the importance of each one is respected. 

 

 

Speakers

 

Professor Mireille Hildebrandt holds the chair of Smart Environments, Data Protection and the

Rule of Law at the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences (iCIS) at Radboud University Nijmegen. She is also professor of Technology Law and Law in Technology at the Research Froup for Law Science Technology and Society studies (LSTS) at Vrije Universiteit Brussels and Associate Professor of Jurisprudence at the Erasmus School of Law, Rotterdam. She is at the forefront of adademic contribution to this fast-changing and untrammelled area of law, publishing on the rule of law and cyberspace, the value of personal data and much more. In March her new book will be

launched on ‘Smart Technologies and the End(s) of Law’ (Edward Elgar).  Some of Hildebrandt's research papers and publications can be found here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Professor Luciano Floridi is Professor of Philosophy and Information at the University of Oxford. His recent publications include ‘The Fourth Revolution – How the Infosphere is reshaping human reality’ and ‘The Ethics of Information.’ He has had a broad, award-studded and exciting career, from holding the UNESCO chair in Information and Computer Ethics to sitting on the Google Advisory Council on The Right to be Forgotten

 

For more information about Professor Floridi, see his enviably stylish website.

Follow him on twitter @Floridi 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

David Smith is the Deputy Commissioner with responsibility for the Data Protection supervisory functions of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). As well as providing Data Protection leadership across the Information Commissioner’s Office, David has direct responsibility for oversight of its Strategic Liaison Division which develops and manages the ICO’s relations with its key stakeholders.  He is a member of both the Commissioner’s Management Board and Executive Team. The international aspects of David’s work involve him in representing the UK on the Article 29 Working Party of European Supervisory Authorities set up under the Data Protection Directive.  In addition he was the Chairman of the data protection supervisory body for Europol from October 2006 to October 2009. Some of David's blog posts on this issue can be found here.

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