fyi

best

nilz
Forwarded message:

From: Jörg Pohle <[log in to unmask]>
To: privacy <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [Privacy] CfP for the Workshop "The Role of Regulatory Authorities in the Governance of Data Protection", Berlin, May 20, 2016
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 11:58:25 +0100

Dear colleagues,

please find below the CfP for our workshop "The Role of Regulatory
Authorities in the Governance of Data Protection". The workshop is
organized by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
and will take place in Berlin, Germany, on May 20, 2016. The deadline for
the submission of contributions (or drafts thereof) is April 30, 2016.

Looking forward to your contribution and participation. You're very welcome
to forward this CfP to potentially interested people and lists.

Kind regards,
Jörg Pohle

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Role of Regulatory Authorities in the Governance of Data Protection

The institution of privacy and data protection commissioners has developed
into a veritable success since its introduction with the Hessian Data
Protection Act of 1970. Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) get involved in
societal processes of discussion and interpretation, analysis and critique,
negotiation and revision of data protection and data protection law. Their
expertise is sought after in legislative processes, and their power of
interpretation is dreaded by controllers. They are praised as defenders of
fundamental rights in the information society and cursed as enemies of
progress and blockers at the same time. However, they rarely have been an
object of scientific investigation themselves so far.

Our interdisciplinary workshop aims at bringing together scholars and
practitioners to shed light on the role of DPAs in the governance of
privacy and data protection. We especially want to focus on processes: the
cooperation across borders, the exchange and debate with data controllers,
politics and civil society, the negotiation, interpretation and
implementation of standards and laws. In particular, we want to debate how
DPAs act in the various social discussion and negotiation fora, and how
their action is enabled, enhanced or limited by their legal and
institutional form, their staff and disciplinary backgrounds, the
infrastructure and individuals who – like Spiros Simitis or Ann Cavoukian –
are particularly visible as data protection commissioners. A special focus
is on the new General Data Protection Regulation, both in terms of the
DPAs’ contribution in the process of its creation as well as the future
role of supervisory authorities. The question is, in what areas and fora
DPAs are more successful so far in exerting influence than in others,
whether there are differences between DPAs with regard to their influence,
and which legal or institutional conditions and/or strategies might explain
these differences. Moreover, it remains to be discussed, which role DPAs
play in negotiating and shaping regulatory regimes – from “traditional”
top-down regulation to (regulated) self-regulation –, what their objectives
are and to what extent these objectives reflect the institutional interests
of the regulators themselves.

We furthermore will pay special attention to the challenges that arise for
DPAs from the multidisciplinarity of the privacy problem, the increasing
self-limitation of the debate to expert circles, and the need for imparting
the problem and possible solutions to a (legal as well as technical) lay
audience.

We look forward to your contributions to one or more of the following or
related areas:
- the DPAs’ self-perception, and its formulation and communication
- the national, regional and global cooperation between data protection
authorities (Conference of Data Protection Commissioners of the Federal
Republic and the Federal States, Düsseldorfer Kreis, Article 29 Working
Party, International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy
Commissioners, Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN))
- the DPAs’ communication with the public and in public, with stakeholders
from businesses and the public administration, from politics and civil
society, from science and practice
- the DPAs’ regulatory strategies between sanctioning and constructive
cooperation
- the DPAs as experts and as stakeholders in legislative processes on the
national and European level, in research and development projects
- the DPAs’ practice: controlling, examining, evaluating procedures
(systems, processes, data)
- the DPAs as first instances (and “trend-setters”?) for interpreting laws
and norms
- the DPAs as actors in scholarly, especially interdisciplinary debates
- competences, structures and processes in DPAs enabling and limiting
monitoring and controlling data processing
- European perspectives, i.a. the representation of member states, regions
and their peculiarities and interests in the future European Data
Protection Board (EDPB)

Please submit your contribution (or a draft thereof) no later than April
30, 2016, as a PDF via e-mail to [log in to unmask]

- full paper: 8 to 10 pages, approx. 2,000 words
- short paper: 4 to 6 pages, approx. 1,000 words
- draft paper: max. 2 pages, approx. 400 words (please indicate whether
you are aiming for a short paper or a full paper)

All accepted contributions will be made available to the workshop
participants in advance.

The workshop will take place May 20, 2016, in Berlin, Germany.

The keynote address will be delivered by Marit Hansen, Data Protection
Commissioner of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Moreover, we have
won Alexander Dix, Spiros Simitis (solicited) and Thilo Weichert
(solicited) as participating experts for the workshop to enrich the debate
with their wide experience in the practices of DPAs, national, regional and
global cooperation, and scholarly, political and legislative debates.

We strive for publishing all contributions, a report on the workshop and
possible further contributions arising from the workshop discussion in a
volume of conference proceedings by autumn 2016.

For more information please contact Jörg Pohle at [log in to unmask]

Important dates:
- Submissions due: April 30, 2016
- Registrations due: April 30, 2016
- Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 5, 2016
- Program & contributions available for workshop participants: May 5, 2016
- Workshop date: May 20, 2016

Venue:
Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
Französische Straße 9
10117 Berlin

--
[image: HIIG-Logo] <http://www.hiig.de> Jörg Pohle | Project Manager
Global Privacy Governance
Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft gGmbH
Französische Straße 9 · 10117 Berlin
T +49 30 2007 6097 · F +49 30 2060 8960 · www.hiig.de · [image:
Facebook-Button] <http://www.facebook.com/HIIG.Berlin> [image:
Twitter-Button] <https://twitter.com/hiig_berlin> [image: Google+1-Button]
<https://plus.google.com/u/0/104662709701524780855>
Gesellschaftssitz Berlin | Amtsgericht Berlin Charlottenburg | HRB 140911B
USt-ID DE 27/601/54619 | Forschungsdirektorium: Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann
(Geschäftsführung) ·
Prof. Dr. Dr. Ingolf Pernice (Geschäftsführung) · Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas
Schildhauer ·
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz | Geschäftsführung: Dr. Karina Preiß
_______________________________________________
privacy mailing list
[log in to unmask]
https://lists.fu-berlin.de/listinfo/privacy

Dr. habil. Nils Zurawski Universität Hamburg Inst. für kriminologische Sozialforschung Allende-Platz 1 20146 Hamburg Germany tel. +49 (0) 40 42838 2199 (AB) fax. +49 (0) 40 42838 2328 http://www.surveillance-studies.org Neue Bücher: #Raum-Kontrolle-Weltbild.Raumvorstellungen als Grundlage gesellschaftlicher Ordnung und ihrer Überwachung. Mai 2014 bei Budrich UniPress. #Anthropology of Security, Perspectives from the Frontline of Policing, Counter-terrorism and Border Control (eds. M. Maguire, C. Frois, N.Zurawski) Pluto Press 2014