LE CRID INTER@CTIF
- January 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)
- 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 will participate at the IIId CPDP Conference on Privacy organised at Brussels ( 26 -28/1/2010) jointly by the University of Tilburg, the University of Brussels and the University of Namur. He will chair the panel on the "Future of the Data Protection Directive".
- Yves POULLET has been invited by the CNIL (the French DPA) for delivering a lesson about the notion of "personal data" under Privacy legislation (Jan. the 7th of 2010).
Recently published Articles by Crid researchers (December 2009)
- A. ROUVROY, Y. POULLET, « The right to informational self-determination and the value of self-development : reassessing the importance of privacy for democracy », Reinventing data protection ?, Dordrecht, Springer, 2009, pp. 45-76
- J.M. DINANT, « The concepts of identity and identifiablity : legal and technical deadlocks for protecting human beings in the information society ? », Reinventing data protection ? , Dordrecht, Springer, 2009, pp. 111-122
- C. DE TERWANGNE, « Is a global data protection regulatory model possible ? », Reinventing data protection ? , Dordrecht, Springer, 2009, pp. 175-189
- J.P. MOINY, « Facebook et l'extraterritorialité », Datanews., 2009, décembre, p. 1.
- J.P. MOINY, V. DE GREEF, « Facebook: ces amis qui vous veulent du bien... », Politique., 2009, n°, pp..
- Romain Robert and Jean-Paul Triaille, “Contrats informatiques”, Chapter in the new edition of Traité Pratique de Droit Commercial, Volume 1, released in December, Kluwer, dir. C. Jassogne (about 100 pages).
Intervention by Crid researchers to events as speakers (December 2009)
- Jean-Marc Van Gyseghem took the floor in the context of the Conference on "Dans une société hyper-contrôlée, que devient la vie privée?" organized by the Ligue des Droits de l'Homme's local section of Namur (December 07th 2009, Saint Servais - Belgium)
- Yves POULLET as scientific responsible of the Congress has participated in the Conference organized jointly by the "Maison du Droit", the AFPAD and the AUF at HanoÏ. He made a presentation on different topics. So he developed the first day some reflections about the present EU regulatory framework of the Internet and analysed the second day the problems met by Privacy regulations facing TBDF. He addressed final conclusions.
- Philippe LAURENT has co-organized the EOLE2009 conference (European Open source and free software Law Event), at the European Parliament, on 9 December 2009. During the event, he also made a presentation on "Copyleft" in the "FOSS Terminology" session. More information at http://www.eolevent.eu
- Florence de Villenfagne gave a 1-day seminar on data protection in EU Agencies, FRONTEX Agency, Warsaw, 7 December 2009.
Lunchtime of the Crid (December 2009)
- December 4, Professor Michel Arnaud, Director fo the "Centre de Recherche en Information Spécialisée et Médiation des Savoirs (CRIS)" in the Department of the information and communication science of the University of Paris west - Nanterre, gave us a lecture on "Interoperable Fare Management" and in the frame of the "Chaire FIDES" on the numerical identity
Lectures given by Crid researchers (December 2009)
- Cristina Dos Santos gave a lecture on "Privacy awareness" to the students of the class of "Principles of statistical data analysis" of Professor Marcel Rémon, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Namur (FUNDP), 2 December 2009.
New acquisitions in the Law library (December 2009)
More information here.
ICT and Law Reviews (December 2009)
More information here.
Analysis of the M.B. (December 2009)
More information here.
Press releases of the Europa website (December 2009)
Electronic Commerce
Electronic Communications
- SPEECH/09/551 Date: 23/11/2009 - Viviane Reding Member of the European Commission responsible for Information Society and Media Convergence in the electronic communications markets: challenges for the EU regulatory policies CMT's II International meeting: "Regulation in a convergent environment" Barcelona, 23 November 2009
- IP/09/1812 Date: 24/11/2009 - La Commission européenne se félicite que le Parlement européen ait approuvé une réforme ambitieuse visant à renforcer la concurrence et les droits des consommateurs sur les marchés européens des télécommunications
- IP/09/1810 Date: 24/11/2009 - Télécommunications: la Commission demande instamment à l'autorité lituanienne de régulation des télécommunications de prendre des mesures plus fermes concernant les tarifs de terminaison d'appels fixes
- IP/09/1832 Date: 27/11/2009 - Télécommunications: la Commission européenne enjoint à l'autorité polonaise de régulation des télécommunications de prendre des mesures plus fermes concernant les tarifs de terminaison d'appel mobile
- IP/09/1882 Date: 07/12/2009 - Télécommunications: la Commission approuve le plan de l’autorité réglementaire italienne visant à stimuler la concurrence sur les segments terminaux de lignes louées en Italie
- MEMO/09/539 Date: 07/12/2009 - EU Telecoms: the Article 7 procedure, the role of the European Commission and the impact of the EU Telecoms Reform: Frequently Asked Questions
Liberties in the Information society
- IP/09/1903 Date: 10/12/2009 - Le domaine internet «.eu» désormais accessible dans toutes les langues de l'UE
Intellectual Property
- IP/09/1919 Date: 14/12/2009 - Droits de propriété intellectuelle: les États membres et la Commission se mobilisent contre la contrefaçon et le piratage
- IP/09/1916 Date: 14/12/2009 - La Commission européenne salue la ratification des traités de l'OMPI dans le domaine du droit d'auteur
Agenda
CRID events :
- 9 January : second EOLE event (European Open source and free software Law Event), European Parliament.
- 20 - 22 January 2010 : The Conference for the 30th Anniversary of the CRID, An Information Society for All : A Legal Challenge, University of Namur, Law Faculty.
- 29 - 30 February 2010 : "3rd International Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference ‘An Element of Choice’", co-organized by the CRID, University of Namur, Brussels.
Others interesting events :
- January 10 and 11th : Conference on "Les Modèles propriétaires au XXIème siècle" organized by the CECOJI in tribute to Professor Henri-Jacques Lucas, University of Poitiers, France.
- January 11 : Study day : "La directive sur les Services de médias audiovisuels : le nouveau cadre juridique de l’audiovisuel européen", Louvain-La-Neuve.
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