IPKM expert lecture on “The new General Data Protection Regulation and its international impact”

The Advanced Master programme Intellectual Property and Knowledge Management (IPKM) proudly presents the IPKM expert lecture by Verónica Pérez Asinari on 20 February 2017, at 17.30h in the Feestzaal of the Faculty of Law. Verónica Pérez Asinari is currently the Head of the Supervision and Enforcement Unit at the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) of the European Union. This Unit is responsible for ensuring compliance with the data protection Regulation (EC) 45/2001 in the EU institutions and bodies. She also represents the EDPS in the data protection cases before the European Court of Justice. Most recently, she represented the EDPS in the Schrems proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union.

We are active users of the Internet for many different reasons (our private lives, commercial activities, contacts with the administration and state, etc.). In this context, personal information about us and about others is processed, with or without our knowledge or consent. For how long? For what purposes? Where? By whom? Who can have access to our data? What are our rights in this area? A new General Data Protection Regulation has been adopted in 2016 and will enter into force in 25 May 2018 (Regulation (EU) 2016/679). This new Regulation builds on existing data protection rules and brings new principles, rights and obligations to ensure the protection of individuals and the respect for their fundamental rights, in particular, the right to the protection of personal data. During the Lecture, we will examine the main principles of data protection law, the main changes of the new Regulation, and we will focus on the international aspects of this legal framework.