dear airs, we look forward to having those who are in the region with us tomorrow evening. please feel free to forward to your circles, cheers, s.
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As part of the privacy course we will have an evening panel open to the public that will discuss privacy issues in search applications, profiling, and behavioral advertising.
The panel will feature three invited panelists: Andrew McStay (Bangor University), Joris van Hoboken (University of Amsterdam), and Joss Wright (Oxford Internet Institute).
The panel will be followed by a reception sponsored by LSEC.
Please feel free to forward to anyone potentially interested.
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Place:
MTC1 02.07 Maria-Theresiacollege Sint-Michielsstraat 6 3000 Leuven
Date and time:
Wednesday June 27, from 18:30 to 20:30
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Andrew McStay
Abstract My panel presentation raises questions about the nature of consent in the context of behavioural advertising and third-party cookies, particularly in relation to the full roll out of the European Cookie Directive (2009/136/EC). In exploring tensions between the Article 29 Working Party and the UK's understanding of consent, the presentation highlights paradoxes in the UK's implementation along with lessons that might be learnt from moral philosophy on the meaning of consent in relation to privacy and positive values of autonomy.
Biography Andrew McStay is Lecturer at Bangor University, UK, and author of Digital Advertising (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2009) and The Mood of Information: A Critique of Online Behavioural Advertising (Continuum, 2011). Forthcoming books are The Mode of Seduction: A Discourse on Creativity and Advertising (Routledge, 2013) and Deconstructing Privacy (Peter Lang, 2014).
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Joris van Hoboken
Abstract Web search engines have played a central role in many of the privacy debates related to the Internet. Amongst the primary reasons for this are the collection of enormous amounts of user data at the individualized level, the indexation and digitization of more and more information (including personal data) on the Web and elsewhere, the ever-growing sophistication of techniques to query data sets as well as the integration of search services into behavioral advertising networks. In his talk, Joris van Hoboken will map the privacy issues that are at stake in the context of search and address some of the most important unresolved challenges in this field.
Biography Dr. Joris van Hoboken is senior researcher at the Institute for Information Law. His research addresses law and policy in the field of digital media, electronic communications and the internet. His interests include the implications of the fundamental right to freedom of expression and privacy online as well as the transatlantic comparison of different regulatory approaches to the online environment. He is a specialist in the field of search engine law and regulation and regularly writes, teaches and presents on the issues of data protection and intermediary liability on the Internet. Joris was awarded a Ph.D. by the University of Amsterdam (2012) for his thesis examining the implications of the right to freedom of expression for the legal governance of search engines. He graduated cum laude in both Theoretical Mathematics (2002, M.Sc.) and Law (2006, LL.M.) and serves as the chair of the Board of Directors of Bits of Freedom, a Dutch digital civil rights organization.
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Joss Wright
Abstract Search has assumed a critical importance in modern networked societies. The volume of information continuously generated and made available through the internet has placed search in the role of gatekeeper to an otherwise unmanageable flood of data. This priviliged position provides deep insight into, and consequently extreme privacy risks for, the users of the search services companies that manage search. This talk will examine privacy in the context of search, the social implications of user profiling in these services, and explore areas where tensions arise between providers and citizens, and whether these tensions can be resolved or entirely avoided.
Biography Dr. Joss Wright is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. where his research focuses on the themes of privacy enhancing technologies and online censorship, both in the design and analysis of techniques and in their broader societal implications. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from the University of York in 2008, where his work focused on the design and analysis of anonymous communication systems. Dr. Wright has provided advice to the European Commission, as well as a number of EU research projects, on the social, legal and ethical impacts of security technologies. He has been featured in national and international media commenting on digital rights issues, and has written articles on topics related to online privacy, social media and internet censorship for, among others, the Guardian and Observer newspapers in the UK.