The Privacy and the Law Conference 2010

The law on privacy faces enormous challenges from new technology, from globalisation and from the pressure for greater transparency in the public realm. The rapid development of the internet and the increasing electronic capture of images and data provides an obvious threat to the protection of privacy, both in the UK and globally.

Problems are emerging about the transfer of information within multi-national corporations based in countries with different data protection regimes. More and more of us are willingly placing private information on public social networks. And moves to widen the scope of freedom of information laws have major implications for privacy.

How is privacy law responding to these pressures? And how will developments in the UK with a coalition government with a markedly new agenda and Europe where the Lisbon Treaty and EU proposals promise significant changes affect law and practice?

This timely conference will examine in detail the current and emerging challenges to privacy and the solutions that are developing to meet them.

Key topics include: * The relationship between privacy and freedom of information * Privacy and the internet * The current agenda for privacy * The challenges of globalisation and new technology

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Solicitors and barristers working in data protection and privacy law, human rights law, public law, internet law, freedom of information law, media law; professionals in legal departments, compliance and risk, data protection, access rights; professionals