LE CRID INTER@CTIF
- July-August 2010 -
Recent Articles- New acquisitions - Reviews - Analysis of the M.B.- Analysis of the JOUE - Press releases of the 'Europa' website
General Information
- Yves POULLET, professor at the Law Faculty and director of the CRID, has been nominated as Rector of the University of Namur. More information here.
- Yves POULLET has been nominated as member of the advisory committee of the Wallon Health Network.
- InfoSafe 2010-2011 (Degree in information security management) - Beginning in October 2010 - Information and registrations on our website.
- New contract:
- The CRID's Unit "Liberties in the Information Society" starts the "INSPIRE - SPW" project: its mission consists on a legal support to the Walloon Region in order to transpose the INSPIRE Directive (2007/2/EC) in the Walloon legal framework. This project will last 12 months and the researchers involved are Cristina DOS SANTOS and Feyrouze OMRANI .
Recently published Articles by Crid researchers (June 2010)
- Q. COPPIETERS ‘T WALLANT, Aspects institutionnels du droit des télécommunications en Belgique ou l’automobile à treize volants - Institutional aspects of telecommunications law in Belgium or the automobile with thirteen steering wheels (June, 29 2010), version électronique disponible ici.
- J.-P. MOINY, "Contracter dans les réseaux sociaux: un geste inadéquat pour contracter sa vie privée, Quelques réflexions en droits belge et américain", Rev. Dr. ULg, 2010/2, pp. 133 et s.
- Y. POULLET, «UNESCO, ethics and human rights in the information society : towards an ethical space », The international journal of communication ethics, 2010, n°2/3, pp. 17-27.
- Y. POULLET, J. VAN GYSEGHEM, J. GERARD, C. GAYREL, J.-P. MOINY, "Cloud computing and its implications on data protection", Project on Cybercrime, Council of Europe, 5 Mars 2010. More information here.
Intervention by Crid researchers to events as speakers (June 2010)
- Séverine DUSOLLIER drafted a report on the public domain in copyright for WIPO, available here.
- Caroline COLIN participated in the PRACTIS project meeting, Berlin, 24 June, to present the first results of the survey on privacy.
- Cristina DOS SANTOS and Ph. Caroline COLIN have participated to the PSI Alliance 2010 Annual Conference on "From Regulation to Action", Brussels, 16t june 2010. More information here.
- Antoinette ROUVROY took the floor during the JuriTIC "Profilage électronique et protection de la vie privée" organised by the CRID about "Profilage et gouvernance algorithmique", Namur, 25 June 2010.
- Jean-Marc DINANT made a presentation in the context of the JuriTIC "Profilage électronique et protection de la vie privée" organised by the CRID about "the Les techniques de cyberprofilage en ligne: mythes et réalités", Namur, 25 June 2010.
- Yves POULLET and Jean-Marc DINANT were invited as experts to the Council of Europe Consultative Committee on Data protection for discussing about the "Profiling" Recommendations, Strasbourg, 2-4 June.
- Yves POULLET participated to the Conference "Security, privacy and data protection" organized by the spanish DPA and he took the floor about "Security and cybercrime. Social networks as object of investigation.", Madrid, 9 June 2010.
- Yves POULLET introduced the JuriTIC "Profilage électronique et protection de la vie privée" organised by the CRID with a speech about "Introduction : Profilage et démocratie électronique", Namur, 25 June 2010.
Sandwich and Research Seminar op the CRID (June 2010)
- Ewan SUTHERLAND, Telecommunication policy analyst, Research Associate at LINK Centre LINK of the Witwatersrand University (Johannesburg, South Africa) and at the CRID, made us a presentation about "Africa and Europe - a comparison of regulatory goals and methods", 18 June 2010.
New acquisitions in the Law library (June 2010)
More information here.
ICT and Law Reviews (June 2010)
More information here.
Analysis of the M.B. (June 2010)
More information here.
Press releases of the Europa website (June 2010)
Electronic Communications
- IP/10/654 Date: 02/06/2010 Telecoms: Commission accepts UK regulator proposal to mandate virtual unbundling of BT's fibre networks but requests full unbundling as soon as possible
- IP/10/644 Date: 01/06/2010 Telecoms: Commission report on national telecoms regulation shows more competition but no Single Market
- MEMO/10/226 Date: 01/06/2010 Telecoms: how the Article 7 consultation and notification mechanism works: frequently asked questions
- IP/10/641 Date: 31/05/2010 Telecoms: Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) established in Riga
- MEMO/10/223 Date: 28/05/2010 Digital Agenda: Kroes to present Digital Agenda for Europe at 31 May EU Telecoms Council
- IP/10/704 Date: 09/06/2010 Digital Agenda: Commissioner Kroes welcomes mobile operators' work on child safety; calls for more effort to raise parents' awareness
- IP/10/806 Date: 24/06/2010 Telecoms: Commission welcomes new Slovak rules on independence of telecoms regulator; ends legal action
- IP/10/805 Date: 24/06/2010 Telecoms: Commission welcomes Polish compliance on subscribers' rights rules; closes infringement case against Poland
- IP/10/804 Date: 24/06/2010 Telecoms: Commission takes legal action against Germany and Poland over failure to consult on price-control rules
- IP/10/803 Date: 24/06/2010 Audiovisual Media Services Directive: Commission requests 12 Member States to implement in full
Intellectual Property
- IP/10/785 Date: 23/06/2010 Intellectual property rights: Parliament and the Commission award prizes for winners of Real FAKE competition
- IP/10/811 Date: 24/06/2010 Data protection: Commission requests UK to strengthen powers of national data protection authority, as required by EU law
Liberties in the Information Society
Technology and Security
- EDPS/10/10 Date: 22/06/2010 EU-US new draft agreement on financial data transfers: EDPS calls for further data protection improvements
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