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As promised to many of you, the draft #PrivacyCamp21 schedule is out today. Read below what you can expect from the first online edition of Privacy Camp, taking place this year on 26 January 2021 from 10.00 to 16.05.
With almost a decade’s legacy, this year Privacy Camp zooms in on the relations between digitalisation, digital rights and infrastructures. In response to our call for panels, we have received proposal tackling the subject from a variety of perspectives.
We are proud to present the selection of sessions that combine panel format (speakers addressing the audience) with a more interactive workshop format (speakers address + audience engagement experiences):
Time
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Room 1
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Room 2
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Room 3 (Workshops)
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10:00-11:00 |
Opening and
STORIES of digital rights activism
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11:05-12:00
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A new model for consent? Rethinking consent among complex infrastructures and complex explanations |
Local perspectives: E-life and e-services during the pandemic |
The #ReclaimYourFace campaign: Ban biometric mass surveillance |
12:05-13:00 |
Wiring digital justice: Embedding rights in Internet governance ‘by infrastructure’ |
Platform Resistance and Data Rights |
Cryptowars: The battle for encryption |
13:00-14:00 |
Lunch break
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EDPS Civil Society Summit |
Lunch break
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14:05-15:00 |
Can restorative justice help us govern online spaces? |
Criminalising public spaces under biometric mass surveillance |
Teach me how to hurdle: Empowering data subjects beyond the template |
15:05-16:00 |
Algorithmic Impact Assessments |
The privatised panopticon: Workers’ surveillance in the digital age |
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16:00-16:10 |
Closing |
Registrations for #PrivacyCamp21 are now open. Sign up here by 24 January to ensure your spot.
Make sure to read the final schedule and familiarise yourself with the different sessions.
The event will use Big Blue Button and attendance instructions will be sent in advance to registered participants.
See you soon!
We are happy to present the final programme of #PrivacyCamp20. This 8th edition of Privacy Camp revolves around the topic of Technology and Activism. Besides panel discussions and workshops, this year, Privacy Camp also brings you a Critical Maker Faire. Click through the grid below to find out the details about each session as well as our famous after-party.
The print version (pdf) of the programme is available here.
Location: La Vallée, Rue Adolphe Lavallée 39, 1080 Brussels
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Room ALICE |
Room BOB |
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| 09:00-9:30 |
Coffee & Hi! |
Coffee and Hi! |
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9:30-10:30 |
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| 10:30-12:00 | Defending digital civic space: how to counter digital threats against civil society | Investigative journalism in South East Europe |
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12:00-13:00 |
Lunch break |
Lunch break |
| 13:00-14:30 | How To Parltrack Workshop | The impact of surveillance on today’s kids – tomorrow’s human rights activists |
| 13:30-15:45 |
EDPS civil society summit (ROOM EVE) |
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14:30-14:45 |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
| 14:45-16:00 | Access requests as a tool for activism |
“Actually, In Google We Trust”? A ‘Deconstructing’ Conversation on Russian Internet |
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16:00-16:30 |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
| 16:30-17:45 | Internet for All – Silenced and Harassed No More! | |
| 17:45-17:50 | Closing |
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18:00-20:00 |
Foodtruck & Chats |
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20:00-24:00 |
after party after |
party after party
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Register now in order to secure your attendance for #PrivacyCamp20. This is a free-to-attend event but registration is required as space is limited. We have extended the registration deadline until Friday, 17 January 2020.
Technology and Activism and chats and drinks and a cool DJ line-up. You can have all of them by joining us at the Privacy Camp After – party from 20h onward.
The party location is the same one in which we’ll be all day, but with a rather different atmosphere. Four talented DJs will take us through their selected work. Expect to hear great sets, mixes and live coding!
24h – … Still partying? Cool! Then we did a good job. While we’d love to continue the partying until next year, this is when we start turning the lights on, put on some goodbye music and give each other hugs that last us until the next edition of Privacy Camp. See you soon!
We’re delighted to announce the final programme for #PrivacyCamp19.
Each session’s full description, including participants and moderators, can be found by clicking on each title below. The print version of the programme (pdf) is available here.
Location: Auditorium 3 & 4, Grande Salle (Université Saint-Louis, Boulevard du Jardin botanique 43, 1000 Brussels)
| Time | Session 1 | Session 2 |
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| 09:00-9:30 | Coffee | |
| 9:30-10:30 | Welcome and narrative session: User Stories | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Mapping the problem: News dissemination on online platforms | Platforms regulations – policy challenge for civil society advocates |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch break | |
| 13:00-14:30 | Reimagining Data Futures: Data and Agency | Platform dominance and privacy harms: What role for civil society in competition policy |
| 14:30-14:45 | Coffee break | |
| 14:00-16:15 | EDPS civil society summit | |
| 14:45-16:00 | Platforms: the pouvoir exécutif of modern states? | Online Platforms and Automated Content Moderation |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30-17:45 | Let’s see the evidence! Where algorithmic decisions are used in real life, and how we find out about them | Towards real safeguards: Data driven political campaigns and EU election |
| 17:45-17:50 | Closing |
Our after-party will be a real alternative to surveillance capitalism. More importantly, we will have the opportunity to continue the discussions started during the day around a drink or two.
The official after-party is going to take place at ViaVia Brussels, on 29 January starting at 7.30pm.
Entrance only with a conference badge!
Line-up:
Join us for the 7th annual Privacy Camp!
Privacy Camp will take place on 29 January 2019 in Brussels, Belgium, just before the start of the CPDP conference. Privacy Camp brings together civil society, policy-makers and academia to discuss existing and looming problems for human rights in the digital environment.
Take me to the call for panel submissions.
Take me to the call for user story submissions.
Privacy Camp 2019 will focus on digital platforms, their societal impact and political significance. Due to the rise of a few powerful companies such as Uber, Facebook, Amazon or Google, the term “platform” has moved beyond its initial computational meaning of technological architecture and has come to be understood as a socio-cultural phenomenon. Platforms are said to facilitate and shape human interactions, thus becoming important economic and political actors. While the companies offering platform services are increasingly the target of regulative action, they are also considered as allies of national and supranational institutions in enforcing policies voluntarily and gauging political interest and support. Digital platforms employ business models that rely on the collection of large amounts of data and the use of advanced algorithms, which raise concerns about their surveillance potential and their impact on political events. Increasingly rooted in the daily life of many individuals, platforms monetise social interactions and turn to questionable labor practices. Many sectors and social practices are being “platformised”, from public health to security, from news to entertainment services. Lately, some scholars have conceptualised this phenomenon as “platform capitalism” or “platform society”.
Privacy Camp 2019 will unpack the implications of “platformisation” for the socio-political fabric, human rights and policy making. In particular, how does the platform logic shape our experiences and the world we live in? How do institutional actors attempt to regulate platforms? In what ways do the affordances and constraints of platforms shape how people share and make use of their data?
We welcome panel proposals relating to the broad theme of platforms. Besides classic panel proposals we are also seeking short contributions for our workshop “Situating Platforms: User Narratives”.
We are particularly interested in panel proposals on the following topics: platform economy and labour; algorithmic bias; democratic participation and social networks.
Submission guidelines:
In an effort to discuss situated contexts with regard to platforms, we will have a session on lived practices and user narratives. Individuals, civil society groups or community associations are welcome to contribute in the format of a short talk or show & tell demonstration. Details and the online submission form are here:
The deadline for all submissions is 18 November. After the deadline, we will review your submission and let you know by the end of November whether your proposal can be included in the programme. It is possible that we suggest merging panel proposals if they are very similar.
Please send your proposal via email to privacycamp(at)edri.org!
If you have questions, please contact Kirsten at kirsten.fiedler(at)edri(dot)org or Imge at imge.ozcan(at)vub(dot)be.
Privacy Camp is jointly organised by European Digital Rights (EDRi), the Institute for European Studies of the Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles (USL-B), the Law, Science, Technology & Society research group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (LSTS-VUB), and Privacy Salon.
Participation is free. Registrations will open in early December.
Tomorrow, on 23 January 2018, Privacy Camp brings together civil society, policy-makers and academia to discuss problems for human rights in the digital environment. In the face of what some have noted as a “shrinking civic space” for collective action, the event provides a platform for experts from across these domains to discuss and develop shared principles to address key challenges for digital rights and freedoms.
Themed “Speech, settings and [in]security by design”, the one-day conference at the Saint-Louis University in Brussels features panel discussions and privacy workshops led by experts in the fields of privacy, surveillance and human rights advocacy. The nonprofit, nonpartisan event draws privacy activists, civil society representatives, public servants and academia of all ages and backgrounds who are interested in improving privacy and security in communications and work towards the respect of human rights in the digital environment.
This year, Privacy Camp also features the “Civil Society Summit” of the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS).
Among others, speakers of the Privacy Camp 2018 are Giovanni Buttarelli, Wojciech Wiewiorowski, Fanny Hidvegi, Glyn Moody, Katarzyna Szymielewicz, Juraj Sajfert, Marc Rotenberg. The full programme can be accessed here.
All good things must come to an end. But not all things end quite as dramatically and with as much suspense as this year’s PrivacyCamp!
Join our post-camp party at Smouss Bar! There will be complimentary snacks, free drinks (for those with a conference badge, so remember to register to get yours) and, most importantly, our legendary “Big Fat PrivacyCamp Quiz of 2018”.
Here are the directions for getting from the conference to the after-party (by foot, 18 mins):
From 19:00 onwards
at Smouss Café
112 Rue du Marché au Charbon
1000 Bruxelles
