CPDP is a non-profit platform originally founded in 2007 by research groups from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Université de Namur and Tilburg University. CPDP has now grown into a platform carried by 20 academic centers of excellence from the EU, the US and beyond. As a world-leading multidisciplinary conference CPDP offers the cutting edge in legal, regulatory, academic and technological development in privacy and data protection. Within an atmosphere of independence and mutual respect, CPDP gathers academics, lawyers, practitioners, policy-makers, industry and civil society from all over the world in Brussels, offering them an arena to exchange ideas and discuss the latest emerging issues and trends. This unique multidisciplinary formula has served to make CPDP one of the leading data protection and privacy conferences in Europe and around the world.
This 9th edition of CPDP celebrated the World Privacy Day with several dedicated panels and side events. The 3-day conference offered participants 80 panels and workshops and special sessions with 343 speakers from academia, public and private sectors and civil society, from 44 different countries. CPDP2016 aimed to dig deeper into current information infrastructures and the new invisibilities and visibilities this entails and includes topics such as Internet of Things, Big Data, encryption, privacy and innovation, data protection developments in Japan and Asia and the EU Data Protection Reform.
Amongst the many interesting topics included in the CPDP2016 program were:
The Return of the Crypto-Wars: Protecting Encryption – chaired by Anna Buchta, EDPS (EU)
Appfail Or Appwin? Towards Consumer Rights and Privacy in Mobile Apps - organised by the Norwegian Consumer Council
The Right to Encryption: Securing Private Communications Versus Law Enforcement - organised by Sophie in ‘t Veld, MEP
You could view more information on the conference and save your spot for the 2017 edition at: http://www.cpdpconferences.org/