It has already become a tradition for the University of Luxembourg to be involved at the annual world-leading multidisciplinary Computers, Privacy & Data Protection (CPDP) conference in Brussels. The 2024 edition saw the Department of Law strongly represented as a panel host, with an additional workshop and involved in the Lexxion panel awarding the EDPL Young Scholars Award.
As a follow-up to the Department’s panel in 2023 on the at that time forthcoming e-Evidence Regulation, Professor Stanislaw Tosza discussed the future challenges posed and solutions provided of the adopted Regulation with a distinguished panel composed of Maša Galič (moderator, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Vanessa Franssen (University of Liège and KU Leuven), Erik Valgaeren (Stibbe), Antonios Bouchagiar (European Commission) and Aisling Kelly (Microsoft). The panel addressed inter alia the current state of play of the required adoption of national law and the implementation of a decentralised IT system for exchange of e-evidence, as well as questions that remain unsolved in terms of access to data by law enforcement authorities.
Workshop: Decoding AI Pornography
For the first time, members of the Technology Law research area organised an interactive workshop. In a thought-provoking atmosphere, Ph.D. candidates Nils Langensteiner and Marinos Kalpakos, postdoctoral researcher Sandra Schmitz-Berndt and former Ph.D. candidate Angelica Ahumada Fernandez invited the fully occupied ‘living room’ to ‘decode’ AI pornography and received amazing positive feedback on the workshop’s topic and organisation.
Panel: EDPL Young Scholar Award
Further, Professor Mark D. Cole, as a member of the editorial board of the European Data Protection Law Review (EDPL) participated in the EDPL Young Scholars Award, which is awarded annually at CPDP. The panel featured the best authors of this year’s competition who presented the findings of their research and discussed it with the Award’s jury.
With that, the Department of Law has once again demonstrated its research in the field of law and technology and the collaborators involved are already looking forward to CPDP 2025.
About CPDP:
CPDP has now grown into a platform carried by 20 academic centers of excellence from the EU, the US and beyond, and offers the cutting edge in legal, regulatory, academic and technological development in privacy and data protection. Within an atmosphere of independence and mutual respect, CPDP gathers academics, lawyers, practitioners, policy-makers, industry and civil society from all over the world in Brussels, offering them an arena to exchange ideas and discuss the latest emerging issues and trends. This unique multidisciplinary formula has served to make CPDP one of the leading data protection and privacy conferences in Europe and around the world.
In 2024, CPDP added ‘ai’ to its acronyms, dealing with Computer, Privacy, Data Protection and Artificial Intelligence and started organising the Data Protection Day in collaboration with the institutional partners EDPS and Council of Europe.