||Wednesday 11:15 -
13:00|Vauban|Forum| Plenary Session : Can Europe win the battle over data?
The European General Data Protection Regulation, which will enter into force in May 2018, enshrines the primacy granted by the European Union to personal data. In the United States, personal data can be appropriated, meaning that they can be traded. By contrast, in the European Union, personal data are bound up with basic human rights. Notwithstanding this, application of the regulation raises a number of challenges. On a practical level, how can uniform application be promoted, not only in European companies, but also in non-European companies that handle personal data belonging to European citizens, to prevent any distortion of competition? On an economic level, how can it be turned into a business advantage for the European digital industry and, more generally, a tool for digital transformation for all companies? Finally, on a political level, the regulation represents but a first step in the legal arsenal that the European Commission intends to put in place to build the digital single market. While localisation obligations are proliferating in European countries, the Commission aims to eliminate these constraints, apart from those established in the name of "public security," by requiring free flow of data within the European Union for non-personal data. Will this free flow of data be a boon to European digital players, or will it benefit only the strongest, as freedom often does?
- Joe McNAMEE
Executive Director - European Digital Rights
- Séverin CABANNES
Deputy Chief Executive Officer - Société Générale
- ERIC LEANDRI
General Director - QWANT
- Alex TAYLOR
European Journalist -
- Christian BUCHEL
Chairman of EDSO for Smart Grids, Chief International and Digital Officer of Enedis - ENEDIS
- FLORENCE RAYNAL
- CNIL
- Mounir MAHJOUBI
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