PLSC-Europe 2020 (Tilburg)

Following the format of PLSC in the United States, PLSC Europe is a conference for discussing work in progress. There is no opportunity or obligation to publish connected to the conference. Our goal is simply to improve and provide support for in-progress scholarship. To do so, PLSC Europe assembles privacy law scholars as well as policy makers, practitioners and civil society experts from Europe and around the world to workshop and discuss papers. The conference is open to other than legal disciplines and values multi-disciplinary approaches.
The conference follows a format where a discussant, rather than the author, is assigned to kick off a discussion of the paper with the audience. We often pair junior scholars with senior colleagues in order to create mentorship opportunities. In the PLSC format, there are no panels or presentations by the authors. Instead, everyone is a “participant”, offering their best questions and insights to stimulate discussion on the draft scholarship.

The first PLSC-Europe was held in October 2015 in conjunction with the Amsterdam Privacy Conference, and the second one in May 2017, in conjunction with TILTing Perspectives 2017. From 2017 onwards, PLSC-Europe became a yearly event, alternating between the University of Amsterdam, Tilburg University, and Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

If you would like to workshop a paper, please submit a title, and an abstract that grounds your work in a literature (see below) by 09 November 2019 via our conference submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plsce2020

In writing your abstract, please connect to the relevant state of the art. We welcome novel approaches, but please do make explicit in which ways your approach departs from existing scholarship. Abstracts should be between 300-600 words and contain sufficient detail to review the approach and potential contribution of the work.

We require all submissions to be transparent about relevant sponsorship and conflicts of interest.

The review of submissions is anonymous. For this reason, we ask authors to remove all potentially identifying information from their submissions.

The program committee for the conference will review abstracts and acceptances will be made on 09 December 2019. Workshop versions of the paper are due 09 March 2020. We reserve the right to cancel workshops if the draft paper is not provided sufficiently in advance for meaningful evaluation by participants.

You can send an e-mail to PLSCeurope2020@tilburguniversity.edu if you encounter any problems.

• Abstracts due: 09 November 2019 (The deadline has been extended to 19-11-2019)
• Announcement of acceptance: 19 December 2019
• Papers due: 09 March 2020
• PLSC-Europe 2020 TILBURG: 09 April 2020

Conference fees

• Regular: €100
• Reduced (students & NGO): €40

Registration

We welcome submissions and registration from all relevant backgrounds. Please note that conference participants will be expected to read the papers of the sessions they attend in advance to ensure high-quality discussions. Thus, please plan for sufficient preparation time in advance of the conference. The papers will be made available to conference participants on 26 March 2020 at the latest. The conference fees are €100 and for PhD-students and NGO’s €40.

Registration is open! You can register via this link.

The University has made arrangements at a preferential rate with a number of nearby hotels. As accommodation is not always ample in Tilburg, please make your arrangements as soon as possible .

At walking distance from Tilburg University

• Auberge du Bonheur / Mail: receptie@bonheurhorecagroup.nl (special rate*)

City Center

• Mercure Hotel Tilburg Centrum / Mail: info@mercure-tilburg.nl (special rate*)
• City Hotel / Mail: info@cityhoteltilburg.nl (special rate*)

Other hotels in Tilburg

(no special Tilburg University rates)

• Hotel Ibis Tilburg / Mail: info@ibis-tilburg.nl
• Bastion Hotel Tilburg
• Hotel Van der Valk Tilburg / Mail: tilburg@valk.nl

Outside Tilburg area

(no special Tilburg University rates)

• Hotel Van der Valk Gilze-Tilburg / Mail: receptie@hotelgilzetilburg.nl
• NH Waalwijk  / Mail: nhwaalwijk@nh-hotels.com

Please note:

1. * In order to benefit from the special Tilburg University room rates, you need to make your reservation directly with the hotel of your choice (see E-mail addresses). The special rates are not valid for bookings made through booking sites. When making your reservation, please refer to: PLSC 2020.
2. Bed & Breakfast accommodations (no special Tilburg University rates)
3. The conference organization is not responsible for booking your hotel accommodation

1.      Irene Kamara. International standards for privacy and data protection: towards a vertical approach?

2.      Eric Lachaud. What the GDPR tells on certification

3.      David Erdos. Defining and Rationalizing Special Data in the General Data Protection Regulation

4.      Nadya Purtova. Code as personal data

5.      Pieter Aertgeerts. Shaping Fundamental Rights: the Right to Data Portability, the EU Legislator and the Normative Foundations of the Fundamental Right to Data Protection

6.      Yuan Li, Koustabh Dolui, Dimitri Van Landuyt, Sam Michiels and Hans Hallez. Federated Machine Learning under the lens of GDPR

7.      Virginia Kozemczak. U.S. and E.U. Courts' Differing Approaches to Protecting Internet Protocol (IP) Addresses as Personal Data

8.      Maria Magierska. National DPAs after the GDPR: Fining Schedules vs. Case-by-Case Approach in Germany and Poland

9.      Giovanni De Gregorio and Edoardo Celeste. Digital Humanism: The Constitutional Message of the GDPR’s Framework on Automated Decision-making

10.   Miriam Buiten. Reconsidering the role of consent in data protection law

11.   Júlia Zomignani Barboza and Lina Jasmontaitė-Zaniewicz. Humanitarian responsibility for digital aid: looking at the case of a EU based national red cross society

12.   Laurens Naudts. Automation’s Uncertain Impact and Future Injustice: Discrimination as a Use-Case

13.   Alessandro Mantelero. If ethics cannibalises law: The case of AI

14.   Giacomo Delinavelli. A fundamental rights approach to protecting children’s right to privacy from their parents’ social media (WIP)

15.   Marco Almada and Maria Dymitruk. Legal Grounds for Automated Judicial Decision Making in the GDPR

16.   Anupam Roy. Harmonization of data localisation framework in India: Comparative legal findings

17.   Trix Mulder and Sofia Ranchordas. Tweeting your Health away: Health Data Sharing on Social Media

18.   Noël Bangma, Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius, Hadi Asghari and Jaap-Henk Hoepman. The GDPR’s rules on data breaches: an interdisciplinary analysis

19.   Olga Gkotsopoulou and Daniel Feser. Information asymmetry and EU data protection law explained: remarks from a credence service perspective with respect to Data Protection Officers

20.   Michael Veale and Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius. Real-Time Bidding and Adtech Under European Data Protection Law

21.   Federica Giovanella. From a right to de-listing to a right to re-listing? RTBF and data relating to criminal convictions

22.   Cristiana Santos, Célestin Matte and Nataliia Bielova. Are Dark Patterns Lawful? Analysis of Dark Patterns applied to Cookie Banner Design and Consent Requirements

23.   Filippo Lancieri. Navigating exit, voice, loyalty, paternalism and capture in data protection