Privacy regulation in digital markets has been at the forefront of the policy debate on both sides of the Atlantic in the past years. This panel will discuss such issues as the EU-US Privacy Shield following the Safe Harbor ruling of the ECJ, the conditions for voluntary consumer consent to the processing of personal data, efforts to ensure individuals’ control over personal data collected by data brokers, and the role of privacy considerations in competition cases (for example, the German Cartel Office proceedings against Facebook).
Gerd Billen
State Secretary at the German Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection
Julie Brill
Partner and co-Chair of Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice, Hogan Lovells
Former Commissioner, US Federal Trade Commission
Elisabeth Kotthaus
Head of Justice Policy in the Berlin representation of the European Commission
Moderated by Amelia Fletcher (Professor of Competition Policy, University of East Anglia)