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José Luis Piñar Mañas

Law and innovation. Privacy and other rights in the digital age

Social Sciences Conference Tuesday, June, 11st, 2019 19:30 hours Madrid

Conference Cycle: "The rigt to the protection of personal data in the digital society"

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Venue: Fundación Ramón Areces, C/ Vitruvio, 5. 28006. Madrid

Free admission. Necessary previous online registration. Limited capacity.  

Organized by:

Fundación Ramón Areces

Coordinator/s:

María Emilia Casas Baamonde. Social Science Council Fundación Ramón Areces.

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New digital technologies generate large amounts of data relating to people, whose knowledge and use pose obvious risks to their rights and freedoms, in particular for their fundamental rights to privacy and the protection of personal data, and, therefore, for democratic constitutional systems in digitalized societies. The Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5, develops the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 (GDPR), in what affects the right to data protection personal and, in addition, includes what he calls digital rights in relation to the internet, social networks or other digital devices. The conferences that make up this cycle, given by leading specialists, will address the normative treatment of these rights, of unquestionable transnational character, unraveling and valuing the guarantees raised in their defense by European and domestic law before the unstoppable technological innovation and its challenges, and the effectiveness of these guarantees. In all areas where people's lives unfold without exception. The protection of Criminal Law of the use of personal information presents an undeniable importance, while that personal information is necessary to organize policies of criminal investigations for the prevention of international crime. The specific projection of privacy and digital rights in companies in relation to the use of digital devices, video surveillance, sound recording or geolocation systems will also deserve due attention in this cycle of conferences.

Tuesday, June, 11st

19:00 h.

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19:30 h.

Law and innovation. Privacy and other rights in the digital age

José Luis Piñar Mañas
Head of the Google Chair on Privacy, Society and Innovation, at San Pablo-CEU University, Madrid.

José Luis Piñar Mañas, is Attorney at Law and international consultant on Privacy and Public Law. Doctor in Law (Complutense University). Professor of Administrative Law. Former Vice-Rector of International Relations at San Pablo-CEU University of Madrid (2011-2015). Former Dean of the Faculties of Law in the Universities of Castilla-La Mancha (1993-1995) and San Pablo-CEU (1997-1999). Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University, Washington (2005-2007). Former Director of the Spanish Data Protection Agency (2002-2007). Former Vice-Chairman of the European Group of Data Protection Commissioners (“Art. 29 Working Party Data Protection”) (2003-2007), Founder (2003) and first President of the Ibero-American Data Protection Network (2003-2007). President of the Public Law Section of the Spanish General Commission for Codification. Vice President of the Section on Law and Information and knowledge technologies, Academia Española de Jurisprudencia y Legislación (Spanish Jurisprudence and Legislation Academy). Director of the International Research Project (2017-2020) on Data Protection, security and innovation: Challenges in a global World after the European Data Protection Regulation (“Protección de datos, seguridad e innovación: retos en un mundo global tras el Reglamento europeo de protección de datos”). Data Protection Officer of the Spanish Bar Association (Consejo General de la Abogacia Española). Head of the Google Chair on Privacy, Society and Innovation, at San Pablo-CEU University, Madrid. Member of the Advisory Council to Google on the Right to be Forgotten (May 2014-Feb. 2015). He used to be Member of the Executive Board of the Spanish Association of Professors of Administrative Law.

He has published numerous works on Data Protection Law, Transparency, Administrative Law, European Community Law and Foundations Law. Among others (as Director), El Reglamento General de Protección de Datos. Hacia un Nuevo Modelo Europeo de Privacidad (“The General Data Protection Regulation. Towards a new European Privacy Model”), Madrid (2016). El derecho a la protección de datos en la Jurisprudencia del Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea (ECJ Case Law on Data Protection), Madrid, 2018. Sociedad Digital y Derecho (“Digital Society and Law”), Madrid, 2018. Director of the International Review on Digital Law and Innovation (Wolters Kluwer).

Abstract

Technological progress poses undeniable challenges to human rights and freedoms. It is not the first time that the Law has faced disruptive situations, but perhaps we are faced with an unprecedented situation for human beings, who see how technological innovation is capable of generating situations that go beyond the limits of knowledge, since this may be (it already is) in a situation of generating new knowledge and even decision-making capacity outside of human intervention. Artificial intelligence, robotics, the massive use of data and the dictatorship of the algorithm represent for the jurist a challenge not known until now.

In a law-saturated society (as RODOTÀ reminded us), what role should the law play? Is it necessary to reform the Constitution for the effectiveness of rights in the digital society? How can we achieve a regulation that resists obsolescence in the face of unstoppable and unpredictable technological innovation? Surely we have to design a new right in which we return to the principles and there is an inevitable relationship between regulation and self-regulation, from an unquestionably global perspective.

In this scenario, rights must be strengthened, not weakened. Dignity, the free development of personality, freedom and equality in the face of advances in technology (with special reference to the Internet), the right to identity and privacy must be vindicated with greater intensity than ever, as they have never before been exposed to the threats now hanging over them. All this from a perspective that does not admit discussion: the centrality of the individual in the design of what could be the new right of the digital society.

 

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