Privacy & Information Security Law Blog

On November 4, join our privacy professionals at the 31st International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in Madrid, Spain.  Participate in various presentations on ways to manage the most challenging data protection issues in today’s global environment.  In addition, the International Association of Privacy Professionals (“IAPP”) will host a Data Protection and Privacy Workshop in conjunction with the conference.

Our privacy professionals will speak on the following panels:

• Society under Surveillance? Striving for a Balance between Security and Privacy Roundtable with speakers Juan Fernando López Aguilar, President of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), European Parliament; Karim Benyekhlef, Professor of Public Law of University of Montreal; Fred H. Cate, Director of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, Indiana University; and Simon Davies, Director, Privacy International.
• Privacy and Corporate Responsibility with speakers Bojana Bellamy, Global Data Privacy Compliance Lead of Accenture; Sandra Hughes, Global Privacy Executive of Procter & Gamble; Martin Abrams, Executive Director of the Centre for Information Policy Leadership, Hunton & Williams; Fran Maier, Executive Director and President of TRUSTe; and Willemien Bax, Deputy Director General of European Consumers’ Organization.