Protecting Privacy in the Digital Age
As the emergence of new technologies and new media threaten to undermine existing privacy laws, Monash University’s Faculty of Law and the Monash Europe and EU Centre are co-hosting a two-day conference, Emerging Challenges in Privacy Law: Australasian and EU Perspective.
The conference will bring together leading privacy law experts from the UK, Germany, New Zealand and Australia to discuss privacy issues facing lawmakers today. Mr Timothy Pilgrim, Australia’s Federal Privacy Commissioner, will open the conference with a presentation on Australia’s privacy law reform agenda.
Dr Normann Witzleb from the Faculty of Law said that threats to privacy are becoming increasingly universal phenomena, and as such require internationally coordinated approaches to be effective and coherent.
“The conference will allow participants to gain a better understanding of the complexities of privacy law in a networked world from some of the leading authorities in the field,” Dr Witzleb said.
“It will enable participants to have a better understanding of a wide range of current and emerging issues in Australian privacy law and the law reform agenda, and discuss the recent European developments in data protection and privacy law.”
Mr Pilgrim will be joined by leading experts from Monash University as well Professor Graham Greenleaf AM from the University of New South Wales, Professors Dieter Dörr and Udo Fink from the Johnannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz (Germany), Dr Ian Brown from the Oxford Internet Institute and Dr Nicole Moreham from Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand).
The conference will be held at Monash University’s Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St Melbourne on 23 - 24 February, 2012.
For full details, please see the Monash website.