Frank Hopfgartner, Information School of University of Sheffield, UK
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Anja Benner-Tischler, University of Kassel, Germany
Anja Benner-Tischler is a research associate at the Chair for Public Law, IT-Law and Environmental Law at the University of Kassel (Germany) directed by Prof. Dr. Gerrit Hornung, LL.M.. She is a member of the Project Group Constitutionally Compatible Technology Design (provet) at the University of Kassel, which is carrying out interdisciplinary research projects. She is also a member of the Research Center for Information System Design (ITeG) at the University of Kassel. It focuses on design of information technology adopting a socio-technical perspective and encouraging its members to work together in an interdisciplinary manner.
Anja Benner-Tischler carries out research in the area of data processing in the context of employment with its main focus on monitoring systems at the work place. Before joining the Chair for Public Law, IT-Law and Environmental Law, Anja Benner-Tischler studied law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. During her legal traineeship in Munich from 2014 until 2016 she worked inter alia for a leading international law firm in Munich and Brussels.
Keynote Speech:
EU Data Protection Law and its Influence on Webtracking – Everything new with the General Data Protection Regulation and the ePrivacy-Regulation?, Anja Benner-Tischler
Abstract: Webtracking - especially behavioural advertising in recommender systems - entails monitoring people`s online behaviour and collecting personal data in order to provide advertising matching their interests. Whereas there is no doubt that targeted advertising comes with huge economic benefits for advertisers, privacy concerns have been raised. While EU Data Protection Law was recently determined by the EU Data Protection Directive and the E-Privacy Directive as well as the Cookie Directive, since 25th Mai 2018 EU Data Protection law is dominated by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which is directly applicable in each member state of the European Union. Before that, each member state was free to introduce national law, although it had to be compliant with the named directives. Moreover, a draft of the ePrivacy-Regulation dealing especially with cookie-based data processing, was published and will enter into force.
In my talk I will outline the new legal framework, focusing especially on the lawfulness of processing. Special attention will be devoted to the legal requirements that need to be realized by technical implementation, for instance by anonymization and pseudonymization.
Leif Ramming, Plista GmbH, Germany
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