This years’s edition of the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference (CPDP) will take place in Brussels, from May 23th – 25th. Several of CPDP LatAm’s Scientific Comittee and Multistakeholder Advisory Board members will participate in panels throughout the Conference, check our agenda below:
In Latin America, after a boost on data protection regulation in the last decade, Artificial Intelligence studies and even regulatory initiatives are increasingly being proposed. Some countries have published or are considering their own IA strategies and the Brazilian Congress is considering a Bill for an AI regulatory Framework, which has already been voted by the Chamber of Deputies. This panel will explore the main regional initiatives on AI, their overlap with data protection, their intersection with human rights law, and the specific regulatory and technological approaches that are emerging and being proposed in the region.
I am Professor of “Internet Governance and Regulation” and “Data Protection Regulations” at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School, where I also head the Center for Technology and Society and the CyberBRICS project, and I am Associated Researcher at the Centre de Droit Public Comparé of Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas. I am also Member of the Board of the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) and member of the Programming Committee of the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conferences (CPDP).
My work is at the interface of law and technology and I focus primarily on Internet access, data protection and digital platform regulations, and digital policy in the BRICS countries. I enjoy developing multistakeholder partnerships to analyse existing challenges and put forward creative solutions.
Before joining FGV, I worked as an agent for the Council of Europe (CoE) Internet Governance Unit and served as a Network Neutrality Expert for the CoE. Besides working for the Council of Europe, over the past decade I have worked and have been consulted by various international organisations and national regulators, including the International Telecommunications Union, the Secretariat of the Internet Governance Forum, the Internet Society and the French Telecoms Regulators. I have coordinated several projects dedicated to digital policy and Internet governance, producing research outputs in English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, amongst which “De la gouvernance à la régulation de l’Internet” (Berger-Levrault, 2016); the “Net Neutrality Compendium” (Springer, 2016); “Community Networks: the Internet by the People, for the People” and “Platform Regulations: How Platforms are Regulated and How They Regulate Us” (FGV, 2017); “The Community Network Manual” (FGV-ITU-ISOC, 2018) and “Governança e Regulações da Internet na América Latina” (FGV 2019).
The majority of my research is in open access and have been i.a. quoted by the Organization of American States Report on Freedom of Expression and the Internet (2013); used by the CoE to elaborate the Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers on Network Neutrality (2016); featured in the French Telecoms Regulator (ARCEP) Report on the State of the Internet (2018), and published or quoted by various media outlets, including Le Monde, BBC, The Hill, China Today, O Globo, El Pais and La Stampa.
Brazilian lawyer and law professor with a Ph.D. in civil law from State University of Rio de Janeiro. Member of the National Data Protection and Privacy Council.
Currently, he serves as an adviser to the Consumer Office of the Ministry of Justice (Senacon), a coordinator of the Centre for Internet, Law, and Society of the Instituto Brasiliense de Direito Público, and member of the Working Group on Consumer Law and Information Society of Senacon. In the past, he served as general coordinator at the Department of Consumer Protection and Defense in the Ministry of Justice (Brazil), as well as professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro, UniBrasil and Fundação Getulio Vargas. He was former visiting researcher at the Italian Data Protection Authority (Rome, Italy), University of Camerino (Camerino, Italy), and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Hamburg, Germany). He has authored books and several papers and articles about civil law, privacy and data protection.
UN Special Rapporteur on the right to Privacy. I hold a degree of doctor of jurisprudence and social sciences from Facultad de Derecho of Universidad de la República of Uruguay, the country where I was born and where I live with my family. I work as a lawyer at Estudio Jurídico Briann and Associates, in Montevideo, where I lead a new branch of work on privacy and data protection. I also teach data protection to both law students at the School of Law (Universidad de la República) and engineering students at the School of Engineering (Universidad de Montevideo). One of my current areas of interest is privacy and data protection, in which I have been involved since 2000. I am a member of the Red Iberoamericana de Protección de Datos since its inception in 2003, member of the IWGDPT since 2004, member of the Uruguayan FIADI Chapter since 2006, member of the IAPP since 2007, Ambassador of Privacy by Design since 2011. I have been council adviser at the Uruguayan Parliament, Senate and Chamber of Representantives from 1992 to 2019 and worked as a legal consultant at the Uruguayan College of Attorneys. I usually lecture in my country and internationally, and have participated in numerous programs of education. I wrote more than eighty contributions and articles in the areas of my expertise, and in 2009 I published “Protección de datos personales en Uruguay”.
Olga Cavalli is an Internet leader whose work has been fundamental for enhancing a relevant participation of Latin America and the Caribbean in Internet Governance. Olga is a member of the ISOC Board of Trustees and co-founder of the SSIG (South School on Internet Governance), Dominios Latinoamerica and ARGENSIG (Argentine School on Internet Governance). She has recently co-edited the book “Internet Governance and regulations in Latin America” available free for the community in Spanish, Portuguese and English. Cavalli is vice chair of the GAC of ICANN and during 2007- 2014 she was a member of the MAG. She is also a university teacher at University of Buenos Aires. Her education includes a PhD in Business Direction, an MBA, a Master degree in Telecommunications Regulation, and Electronic and Electric Engineer.
She is fluent speaker in Spanish, English, Portuguese and German, and can understand French and Italian.
Olga lives in Buenos Aires and is the mother of Juana and Federico.
Veridiana Alimonti is a Lawyer, senior public policy analyst for Latin America at Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Master in Law & Economics and holds a Doctorate in Human Rights from the São Paulo University’s Law School. Prior to EFF, worked at Idec (Brazilian Consumer Protection Institute) and Intervozes. She was visiting scholar at the Data Protection Department of the Council of Europe, civil society representative at CGI between 2011 and 2013 and consumer representative at the Telecommunication Service Users Protection Committee (CDUST) at Anatel until 2015.
The importance of evidence-based policies is globally acknowledged and such evidence increasingly relies on the use of large (personal and non-personal) data sets for policy development and execution. Both public and private sector actors alike increasingly depend on data processing to provide their services. For Latin America, the innovative use of personal (and non-personal) data for policy planning plays a fundamental role to reduce inequalities and ensure no-one is left behind or cannot access the benefits of the data economy. However, some core challenges persist, including how to implement innovative, secure, and legally and technically interoperable data governance approaches and systems. This CPDP LatAm side event will explore some flagship initiatives and policies on data governance in Latin America.
Nicolo Zingales is Professor of Information Law and Regulation at the law school of the Fundação Getulio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro, and coordinator of its E-commerce research group. Fascinated by the interaction of law, technology and markets, he researches on a range of issues revolving around the roles and responsibilities of digital platforms and intermediaries in the online ecosystem. He published several articles in scientific journals primarily on competition law, intermediary liability, Internet governance and data protection law, including most recently ‘Platform value(s): A multidimensional framework for online responsibility’ (2020) Computer Security and Law Review; BRICS academic report on Digital Era Competition Law: A BRICS Perspective (2019, BRICS Competition Centre); ‘Antitrust intent in an age of algorithmic nudging’ (2019) Journal of Antitrust Enforcement; ‘Data protection considerations in competition analysis: funnel or straitjacket for innovation?’, in P. Nihoul and P. Van Cleynenbreugel, The Role of Innovation in Competition Analysis (Edward Elgar, 2018); ‘Between a Rock and Two Hard Places: WhatsApp at the Crossroad of Competition, Data Protection and Consumer Law’ (2017) Computer Law & Security Review; Platform Regulations: How Platforms Are Regulated and How They Regulate Us (FGV Press, 2017); and ‘The Legal Framework for SEP Disputes in the EU Post-Huawei: Whither Harmonization?’ (2017) Yearbook of European Law.
His research has been cited, among others, by the UN Special Rapporteur for the Protection and Promotion of Freedom of Opinion and Expression, the UK House of Lords, and the European Parliament. He is founder and co-chair of the Internet Governance Forum’s Dynamic Coalition on Platform Responsibility, a founding member of the MyData Global Network and lead of its Brazilian Hub. He is also currently a Research Associate at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society and an Extramural Fellow at the Tilburg Law and Economics Center. Prior to establishing his academic home at FGV, he worked for three years in the United Kingdom (University of Leeds and University of Sussex), and for two years in the Netherlands (Tilburg Law School). He held visiting appointments at the law schools of the University of Western Australia, the Graduate Institute of Geneva, New York University, Harvard University, and at the Max Planck Institute for Competition and Innovation. He holds a JD from the University of Bologna and a PhD in international law and economics from Bocconi University (2013).
Carolina Rossini has over 20 years of experience in technology law and policy, including ICT for development, internet, intellectual property, open innovation, and telecommunications. She is the co-founder of Portulans Institute, founder of iNova Partners Consulting – assisting non-profits in executing effective and long-term change and impact -, and Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum.
She serves on the advisory board of InternetLab (Brazil), Derechos Digitales (Chile), Lighthouse Collective (USA), Instituto EducaDigital (Brazil) and #IamtheCode (Global).
She is a results-oriented, decisive leader with proven success in policy change and advocacy impact, strategic organizational development and growth, and fundraising. Previously, once based in Washington DC, she served as the RightsCon Director at Access Now for the Tunisia edition, as a Global Policy Manager for Connectivity at Facebook, and as the Vice President for International Policy at Public Knowledge (PK). While living in San Francisco she was the International Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a consultant to Wikimedia Foundation. Previously, while in Boston she was Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.
Back in Brazil, where she was born, she was an in-house counsel Telefonica, and a law lecturer at the Center for Technology and Society at Fundação Getulio Vargas (CTS/FGV).
Carolina has an LLM in Intellectual Property from Boston University (2008), an MA in International Economic Negotiations (2006) from UNICAMP/UNESP, an MBA from Instituto de Empresas (2004), and a JD from the University of Sao Paulo – USP (2000).
Executive Director, former Open Government Director for the Undersecretary of Public Innovation and Open Government of Argentina where she coordinated the co-creation of the 3rd Open Government National Action Plan. She was also Open Government coordinator for the Digital Division of the Government of Chile and for the City of Buenos Aires. She is part of the Open Data Leaders Network and the Academic Committee of the International Open Data Conference.
Nati leads ODC’s team, engaging with experts from governments, civil society organizations, academics and the private sector. She oversees the strategic delivery and execution of projects in collaboration with the ODC network.
Fernanda Campagnucci is the executive director of Open Knowledge Brazil, a Public Administration PhD Candidate at Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) and a lecturer on Public Innovation at Insper. As a public manager at Sao Paulo City Hall (2013-2019), Fernanda led transparency and open data policies. Served as Head of Integrity at the Comptroller General’s Office and coordinated the flagship Open Government Initiative at the Department of Education – ‘Patio Digital’. Graduated in Journalism from the University of Sao Paulo. Open Government Fellow at the OAS (2015), Open Data Leader at the ODI (2016) and Government Fellow at EGOV – United Nations University (2018).
María Lorena Flórez Rojas. PhD cum laude in Law and Technology from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Italy. Master in Law and Technology from the University of Tilburg in Holland and Lawyer from the Universidad de Los Andes. She is currently Professor at the Universidad de Los Andes and Director of the Group of Studies in Electronic Commerce, Telecommunications and Informatics (GECTI). She is also a researcher at CinfonIA group of the same University.
La Cave, 16:00 till 17:15 (Brussels Time)
The evolution of data protection regulatory frameworks in the BRICS Countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) has been quick and consistent, and is increasingly contributing to forge international standards as well as to broaden the frontiers of data protection regulation. This panel proposes do delve into new developments and common grounds among these new frameworks, considering, for example, the new Chinese data protection law, the first year of the Brazilian LGPD, the Indian data protection Bill, the Russian Internet Sovereignty debate, and the enforcement challenges in South African.
I am Professor of “Internet Governance and Regulation” and “Data Protection Regulations” at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School, where I also head the Center for Technology and Society and the CyberBRICS project, and I am Associated Researcher at the Centre de Droit Public Comparé of Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas. I am also Member of the Board of the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) and member of the Programming Committee of the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conferences (CPDP).
My work is at the interface of law and technology and I focus primarily on Internet access, data protection and digital platform regulations, and digital policy in the BRICS countries. I enjoy developing multistakeholder partnerships to analyse existing challenges and put forward creative solutions.
Before joining FGV, I worked as an agent for the Council of Europe (CoE) Internet Governance Unit and served as a Network Neutrality Expert for the CoE. Besides working for the Council of Europe, over the past decade I have worked and have been consulted by various international organisations and national regulators, including the International Telecommunications Union, the Secretariat of the Internet Governance Forum, the Internet Society and the French Telecoms Regulators. I have coordinated several projects dedicated to digital policy and Internet governance, producing research outputs in English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, amongst which “De la gouvernance à la régulation de l’Internet” (Berger-Levrault, 2016); the “Net Neutrality Compendium” (Springer, 2016); “Community Networks: the Internet by the People, for the People” and “Platform Regulations: How Platforms are Regulated and How They Regulate Us” (FGV, 2017); “The Community Network Manual” (FGV-ITU-ISOC, 2018) and “Governança e Regulações da Internet na América Latina” (FGV 2019).
The majority of my research is in open access and have been i.a. quoted by the Organization of American States Report on Freedom of Expression and the Internet (2013); used by the CoE to elaborate the Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers on Network Neutrality (2016); featured in the French Telecoms Regulator (ARCEP) Report on the State of the Internet (2018), and published or quoted by various media outlets, including Le Monde, BBC, The Hill, China Today, O Globo, El Pais and La Stampa.
Brazilian lawyer and law professor with a Ph.D. in civil law from State University of Rio de Janeiro. Member of the National Data Protection and Privacy Council.
Currently, he serves as an adviser to the Consumer Office of the Ministry of Justice (Senacon), a coordinator of the Centre for Internet, Law, and Society of the Instituto Brasiliense de Direito Público, and member of the Working Group on Consumer Law and Information Society of Senacon. In the past, he served as general coordinator at the Department of Consumer Protection and Defense in the Ministry of Justice (Brazil), as well as professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro, UniBrasil and Fundação Getulio Vargas. He was former visiting researcher at the Italian Data Protection Authority (Rome, Italy), University of Camerino (Camerino, Italy), and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Hamburg, Germany). He has authored books and several papers and articles about civil law, privacy and data protection.
CyberBRICS Advisory Board Member. Prof. Sizwe Snail KA Mtuze is the Senior Partner at Snail Attorneys at Law. Sizwe Lindelo Snail Ka Mtuze holds a Baccalareus Legum(LLB) from the University of Pretoria with Tax Law and Cyber-Law electives also an (LLM) from the University of South Africa (UNISA). He is currently registered with the University of Fort Hare for an (LLD). Prof Snail Ka Mtuze has recently been appointed Adjunct Professor in the Mercantile Law Department of Nelson Mandela University (NMU) Law Faculty. He is also an Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Fort Hare (UFH) since 2015 and Lecturer in Cyberlaw / IT Law (LLB and LLM levels).
CyberBRICS Fellow. Smriti Parsheera is a Fellow at the National Institute of Public Finance & Policy, New Delhi, where she focuses on technology policy research. Her areas of interest include privacy and digital rights, regulatory governance and competition policy. She is one of the authors of the book “Responsible AI: A Global Policy Framework”. She has previously worked as a member of the research secretariat for the Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission and held research positions with the Competition Commission of India and the United Nations Development Programme. Smriti graduated from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore and obtained her LLM from the University of Pennsylvania along with a Certificate in Law and Business from the Wharton School. She is currently pursuing a PhD in policy studies from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
CyberBRICS Fellow. Andrey A. Shcherbovich is Associate professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Faculty of Law (Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law), in Moscow, Russia. His professional Interests include Internet Governance; Constitutional Law; Human Rights; International Public Law and Procedure; Information Law; International Organizations; United Nations. Andrey graduated from the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Faculty of Law (Department of International Law) in 2008 and completed Postgraduate studies at the National Research University – Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia); Faculty of Law (Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law) at 2011.
CyberBRICS Researcher. Lawyer at UFMG, Master’s student at Peking University. She works with privacy and data protection and researches the regulation of technologies, privacy and data protection in China.