PRIVACY Challenge Seminar: The digital transformation impact on the European regulatory approach to privacy

with Law Professor Hanne Marie Motzfeldt 

Hanne Marie Motzfeldt is a professor in Administrative Law and Digitalisation. Her research is strongly funded in administrative law and EU-law as she in later years have focused on public authorities’ use of new technologies in relation to administrative law, data protection, information security and protection of vulnerable groups of citizens’ digital rights (such as language requirements and accessibility for citizens with disabilities).

Abstract: As the digitalisation of European societies has unfolded, new regulations, especially for the processing of personal data, have been drafted and passed. At the seminar, we will not look into the present rules on when personal data can be processed, etc. Instead, we will start in the 1970´es and move forward to 2024 and, on the way, look into changes in the regulatory approaches. Hopefully, this journey will lead us to a debate on the emerging tendencies towards compliance procedures and the use of legislation to provide privacy rights with a horizontal effect (apply to private companies processing of data).

The presentation will be follow by a debate

About the Challenge Seminars: PRIVACY hosts two Challenge Seminars each semester. Here, the PRIVACY’s research team join with invited experts on such topics as surveillance, privacy rights, medical ethics, work-life balance or social cohesion, to pose mutual research challenges.

The seminar is open for all.