Data protection and ICT

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Data protection and ICT Podcast

A monthly chat between a journalist and an expert on a defined topic, mostly on ethical and legal issues connected to data protection and ICT. The show is part of the EU funded project Panelfit: www.panelfit.eu

  1. 16/08/2021

    Data protection and Unlawful Cookie Banners [Stefano Rossetti, noyb]

    How to prevent companies from misusing cookie banners to collect users’ data? What solutions are there to safeguard citizens’ online privacy? We try to answer with Stefano Rossetti, a data protection lawyer at noyb. • Can you please briefly introduce yourself and your organisation? [1’06’’] • Could you please tell us about the “500 GDPR complaints” and “browser signal” campaigns? [3’22’’] • Is the GDPR a hindrance or a tool to fight this battle? [18’54’’] • Besides being unlawful, what are the risks of this spread of users’ information? [24’22’’] • When I click “Refuse” (where possible), my Privacy Badger plugin still warns me that it has prevented potential third party cookies to track me. Are even lawful cookies really lawful? Or, in other words: Do we know what websites actually do with our data, besides banners’ claims? [29’25’’] • [From the audience] Is it lawful for companies to use, for whatever purpose, sensitive categories of data collected by tracking online users (even if one gives consent to that)? [34’44’’] • [From the audience] What do you think about the Norwegian Consumer Council to completely ban surveillance advertising? [41’56’’] • What do you think about Apple’s initiative to protect users’ privacy: is Europe letting big tech companies take the lead as policymakers on this matter? [48’00’’]

    55 min
  2. 22/03/2021

    Democratising data [with Francesca Feruglio & Erica Murphy, ESCR-Net]

    Data is more and more used by policy-makers to devise their politics of intervention on economic, social and cultural rights. But these data are often incomplete, inaccurate, and gathered without the participation of the people whose lives will be affected by those decisions. We spoke with Francesca Feruglio and Erica Murphy, from the International Network for Economic, Social & Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net). Francesca Feruglio is the coordinator of the Monitoring Working Group of the ESCR-Net. Before ESCR-Net, she was a Research Officer at the Institute of Development Studies in the UK. Francesca also co-founded Nazdeek, a legal empowerment organization in India and has been involved in research, advocacy and capacity building with several grassroots groups, international NGOs. Her work focuses on socio-economic rights and issues around citizens’ participation in democratic governance. Erica Murphy is an independent human rights consultant and until recently a member of the ESCR-Net monitoring working group with the Right to Education Initiative - a global human rights organisation dedicated to promoting education as a human right. She is currently involved in the drafting of the collective position on a human rights-based approach to data for economic, social, and cultural rights with the ESCR-Net monitoring working group. Intro Music: Corporate Innovation by WinnieTheMoog Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6067-corporate-innovation License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

    50 min

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A monthly chat between a journalist and an expert on a defined topic, mostly on ethical and legal issues connected to data protection and ICT. The show is part of the EU funded project Panelfit: www.panelfit.eu

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