CRID Newsletter - February 2010

LE CRID INTER@CTIF

- February 2010 -

Recent Articles- New acquisitions - Reviews - Analysis of the M.B.- Analysis of the JOUE - Press releases of the 'Europa' website

General information (January 2010)

At the Council of Europe request, CRID is preparing an introductory report on the legal aspects of the cloud computing.
The CRID was pleased to welcome Luiz COSTA, bresilian prosecutor to San Paulo from 15 till 28 January on the occasion of the Conference for the 30th Anniversary of the CRID and Monica VILASAU, PhD student from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya which is stayed with us from 19 January till 3 February in order to participate to our Conference and make some researches for her thesis on Data Protection.
CRID has coorganized together with Fraunhofer Institute, INRIA, TILT (University of Tilburg) and LSTS (Free University of Brussels) the 3d CPDP Conference : "Privacy: An element of choice", held at Brussels the 29 th and 30th of January. CPDP 2010 is Europe's most important meeting for academics, practitioners, policy-makers and activists to come.
Depuis le 1er février, l'Unité Libertés dans la Société de l'information a le plaisir d'accueillir Feyrouze OMRANI. Elle travaille sur un contrat conclu avec la CPVP. Son travail consiste en la rédaction d'un rapport scientifique et la constitution d'un dossier scientifique portant sur les données santé et la recherche en vue de la Conférence qui sera organisée par la Commission en novembre 2010 dans le cadre de la présidence européenne de la Belgique.
Yves POULLET has been nominated as expert, member of the scientific Board of the European Privacy Association, a non profit organisation located at Brusssels.
Yves POULLET will participate at the kick off meeting of the PRACTIS EU FP 7 research project which will take place at Tel Aviv (Israël).
Yves POULLET has been invited by the CNIL (the French DPA) for delivering a lesson about the notion of "personal data" under Privacy legislation, 7 January 2010.
New contract:

The projetct PRACTIS (“Privacy-Appraising Challenges to Technology and Ethics”) financed by the FP7 of the European Union is jointly led by the CRID and the CITA. For the CRID, the project is treated by Yves POULLET, Antoinette ROUVROY and Caroline COLIN and for the CITA, by Claire LOBET-MARIS and Alexis VAN ESPEN. PRACTIS will explore novel policy options for addressing individuals’ changing privacy needs in the light of new technologies, as well as exploring new ethical frameworks in law and implementing guidelines for new technology or product development. ... By bringing leading experts in technology foresight and assessment together with specialists in ethical and legal aspects of privacy, PRACTIS offers a unique combination of disciplines that will produce new knowledge on the relationship between technology, privacy and ethics.

Recently published Articles by Crid researchers (January 2010)

K. ROSIER, « La recevabilité de la preuve obtenue par caméra cachée », Bulletin social et juridique, 2010, n°424, p. 6
K. ROSIER, « La Cour européenne des droits de l’homme confrontée à la jurisprudence Antigone», Bulletin social et juridique, 2010, n°423, p. 6
A. DE FRANCQUEN, « La nature de l'usage d'une marque en tant qu'Adword : note d'observations sous Bruxelles (12e ch.), 11 février 2009 », R.D.T.I., 2009, n°37, pp. 127-150.
J.P. MOINY, B. DE GROOTE, « "Cyberconsommation" et droit international privé », R.D.T.I., 2009, n°37, pp. 5-37.

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Intervention by Crid researchers to events as speakers (January 2010)

Conference for the 30th Anniversary of the CRID "An Information Society for All : A Legal Challenge":
- Etienne MONTERO chaired the workshop e-Commerce: "The Digital Evidence", 21 January 2010.
- Hervé JACQUEMIN gave a presentation in the context of the Workshop e-Commerce on "The Different Legal Aspects of Electronic Signature in Belgian Law belge?, 21 January 2010.
- Philippe LAURENT presented a contribution on "Introduction to the open source model and its evolution" during the Workshop Intellectual Property: "The intellectual commons: from software to biotechnologies", le 21 janvier 2010.
- Caroline KER took the floor on "From software to biotechnologies" in the context of the Workshop Intellectuale Property, 21 January 2010.
- Cécile de TERWANGNE chaired the Workshop Liberties in the Information Society "Privacy : Still a Priority Towards a Surveillance Policy?", 22 January 2010.
- Antoinette ROUVROY took the floor during the Workshop Liberties in the Informaiton Society on the topic "Detect and prevent: digitalization of bodies and the production of docile norms.", 22 January 2010.
- Jean-Philippe MOINY made a presentation on "Social networks under control. Which control" in the framework of the Workshop Liberties in the Information Society, 22 January 2010.
- Florence DE VILLENFAGNE presented a contribution on "Security and Privacy : the whole body imaging technology in airports' case" during the Workshop Liberties in the Information Society, 22 January 2010.
- Robert QUECK chaired the Workshop Electronic Communications: "The Internal Market for Electronic Communications – Rationales, Status, Tools and Way Forward", 22 January 2010.
Yves POULLET participated in the 3d Conference CPDP "Privacy: An element of choice" and chaired the panel on " The Future of the EU Data Protection Directive", Brussels, 30 January 2010.
Jean HERVEG participated to the workshop on data protection and biobanks, organized by the European Commission, 28 January 2010