3rd International Conference Computers, Privacy and Data Protection

The annual Conference Computers, Privacy and Data Protection - CPDP2010 will be hosted on January 29 to 30 this year in Brussels. The aim of the Conference is bridging policymakers, academics, practitioners and activists in the field of data protection.

The objectives of the CPDP are:
1. Identifying and addressing new challenges to be faced by computer privacy and data protection, especially with regards to issues related to profiling and autonomic computing,
2. Bringing together, in a high level expertise conference, most of the academic key specialists in the field, data protection commissioners, computer scientists, practitioners, activists and people from standardization bodies and ICT industries,
3. Addressing recommendations to private and public policy makers in the context of the E.U. Privacy Law and the E.U. Data Protection Directive Review.

This year’s programme comprises 6 panels, including “Forgetfulness and data retention”, “Focus in a EU Agenda: Trust in the information society”, “What was on the law firms agenda in 2009?”, “What was on the US agenda in 2009?”, “What was on the national data protection agenda in 2009?” and “Identity in the information society”.

CPDP2010 will also host 3 parallel sessions on cloud computing, Ambient Intelligence and data protection in Justice and Home Affairs.

Slovenian Information Commissioner Ms Nataša Pirc Musar will be attending the Conference as a speaker.

You can read more about CPDP2010 on the web site available at this address: www.cpdpconferences.org/index.html.