October 2015 – Privacy Law Scholars Conference – Amsterdam

Monday, October 26, 2015
De Bazel Café & Conference Center
Vijzelstraat 32
1017 HL Amsterdam
The Netherlands

In October 2015, Berkeley Law and the University of Amsterdam’s Amsterdam Platform for Privacy Research (APPR) will hold the first Privacy Law Scholars Conference in Europe (PLSC-Amsterdam). PLSC is a paper workshop, with the purpose of improving the quality of privacy scholarship.

PLSC has an atypical format. At PLSC, workshops are led by a “commenter” (not the author).  The commenter introduces the paper briefly and then leads a discussion of among all the participants, much like an graduate-level academic seminar. The author is present, but participates primarily by listening and considering how others interpret the work.

PLSC-Amsterdam will have six concurrent tracks, and four paper workshop sessions, thus 24 papers will be workshopped at the event. The date to submit papers is now past. Accepted workshop drafts are due September 25, 2015.

PLSC-Amsterdam will be held concurrently with the Amsterdam Privacy Conference (APC), and the two events are in the same building, thus allowing participants to go to sessions associated with either event. One must register for APC in order to participate in PLSC-Amsterdam because APC is hosting the event.

Preliminary Schedule (final schedule with room assignments will be posted at APC)

Session 1: 10:00-11:15

Liz Brown, Wearing Your Heart Rate on Your Sleeve: Comparing and Improving the Legal Protection of Mobile Sensor-Generated Health Data at Work, Commenter: Kurt Wimmer

Orla Lynskey, Does Size Matter? The Consolidation of Market Power Online and the Potential Impact on Data Protection and Privacy, Commenter: David Thaw

Lillian Edwards, Privacy in smart cities: a critical EU law perspective, Commenter: Bert-Jaap Koops

Paul Bernal, Misunderstanding privacy – The Samaritans Radar debacle, Commenter: Julie Cohen

Arno Lodder, Surpassing “Select before you collect” by safeguards regarding access, querying, and use of large data sets by the police, Commenter: Bryce Newell

Khaled El Emam, Eloise Gratton, Jules Polonetsky & Luk Arbuckle, The Seven States of Data: When is Pseudonymous Data Not Personal Information?, Commenter: David Wright

Session 2: 11:30-12:45

Emily McReynolds, The Myth of Anonymity in Virtual Currency, Commenter: Jaap-Henk Hoepman

Thomas Norton, Crowdsourcing Privacy Policy Interpretation, Commenter: Eleni Kosta

Paula Vargas, “Quasi-surveillance” laws and the need to subject them to the Inter-American Human Rights system, Commenter: Gloria Gonzalez Fuster

Bert-Jaap Koops, Bryce Clayton Newell, Tjerk Timan, Ivan Škorvánek, Tomislav Chokrevski, and Maša Galič, A Typology of Privacy, Commenter: Sandra Petronio

Valerie Verdoodt, Damian Clifford & Eva Lievens, Toying with children’s emotions, the new game in town? The legality of advergames in the EU, Commenter: Kathryn Montgomery

Jeffrey Vagle, Tightening the OODA Loop: Police Militarization, Race, and Algorithmic Surveillance, Commenter: Paul de Hert

Session 3: 13:45-15:00

Nicholas Terry, Health Data Protection, Regulatory Turbulence and Arbitrage, Commenter: Craig Konnoth

Colin Bennett, Voter Management, Elections and Privacy Law: Can Candidates and Parties do in Europe what they do in North America?, Commenter: Kristina Irion

Neil Richards & Woodrow Hartzog, Taking Trust Seriously in Privacy Law, Commenter: Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius

Michael Froomkin, Legal (and Political) Aspects of Designing Privacy-Enhanced Digital Personae, Commenter: Arnold Roosendaal

Ahmed Ghappour, Searching Places Unknown: Criminal Enforcement Jurisdiction on the Dark Web, Commenter: Quirine Eijkman

Bilyana Petkova, Domesticating the “Foreign” in Making Transatlantic Data Privacy Law, Commenter: Pam Dixon

Session 4: 15:00-16:15

Paula Kift & Helen Nissenbaum, Metadata: An Ontological and Normative Analysis
, Commenter: Dorota Mokrosinska

Meg Jones, The Man/Machine in the Middle, Commenter: Paulan Korenhof

Lauren Henry Scholz, Privacy Claims and Institutional Legitimacy, Commenter: Omer Tene

Victoria Schwartz, Corporate Privacy Failures Start at the Top, Commenter: Grazia Cecere

Michael Hintze, In Defense of the Long Privacy Statement, Commenter: Sjoera Nas