BILETA 2020: BILETA 2020 - REGULATING TRANSITIONS IN TECHNOLOGY AND LAW
PROGRAM

Days: Tuesday, April 7th Wednesday, April 8th

Tuesday, April 7th

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10:15-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Session 3A: Cybercrime and Cybersecurity
10:30
Regulating Global Export Control of Cyber Surveillance Technology – The Wassenaar Arrangement and the Disrupted Triangular Dialogue (abstract)
11:00
Enhancing Consumer Interests through The Promotion of Interoperability (abstract)
10:30-12:00 Session 3B: Law, Legal Compliance, and AI
10:30
The Philosophical Foundations of Information Technology Law Panel abstract (abstract)
10:30-12:00 Session 3C: Data Protection & Healthcare
10:30
PANEL Everything is personal data: now what? In search for new boundaries for protection against information-induced harms (abstract)
10:30-12:00 Session 3D: New frontiers of copyright law
10:30
Blockchain in-game collectable items and copyright law: copyright implications of a new way of creative works consumption (abstract)
11:00
You got a licence for that dragon? Exploring legal ownership of digital goods in virtual worlds (abstract)
11:30
Four Years After Launching the EU ODR Platform for Resolving Consumer Disputes: The Need for Re-Designed of the ODR Platform (abstract)
10:30-12:00 Session 3E: Education and Technology
10:30
Differential Data Protection Regimes: Fundamental Rights Protection and Research Exemptions in Health Data Pools (abstract)
11:00
The Influencers’ Republic: Where Marketing Meets Political Speech (abstract)
11:30
Brain-Machine Interfaces And Ethics: A Transition From Wearables To Implantable (abstract)
10:30-12:00 Session 3F: General principles of regulation & new technologies
10:30
The Taming of the Shrew: A Tale of AI Regulation, Legal Certainty and Regulatory Sandboxes (abstract)
11:00
The Tokenized Economy and the Law: From Smart Property to ICOs, STOs and IEOs (abstract)
11:30
Information security of wearables, home-diagnostic tools and smart medical devices (abstract)
12:00-13:00Lunch Break
13:00-14:30 Session 4A: Cybercrime and Cybersecurity: perspectives from the African continent
13:00
Open Government and Data Protection: A Dilemma or A Reconciliation? (abstract)
13:30
Algorithmic transparency and the IP rights in data and databases (abstract)
14:00
Care to explain? Defining the AI-infused explanatory relationship in terms epistemic (in)justice (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 4B: AI and Workplace
13:00
Facilitating Techno-Legal Education in the data moment (abstract)
13:30
Is e-signature legislation applicable to electronic identity? (abstract)
14:00
Financial privacy within the EU: exploring a mutating scenario (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 4C: The role of consent
13:00
Regulating Cultural Change: Fanfiction, Transformation and Fair Dealing (abstract)
13:30
Risk Assessment tools in criminal justice: Is there a need for such tools in Europe and could their use be in compliance with European data protection law? (abstract)
14:00
DISCOVERING THE (UN)SECURE SIDE OF NON-PERSONAL DATA IN A PRIVACY RISK-ANALYSIS FOR IOT: SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON THE UPRAAM METHODOLOGY (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 4D: IP Rights and the digital underground culture
13:00
Promoting Access to Justice against Copyright Infringements: Case Study of the Internet Courts in China (abstract)
13:30
Cybercrime governance and internet fraud eradication: Travesty of digital rights in Africa (abstract)
14:00
Financial Intelligence Units and the question of the applicable data protection legal framework (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 4E: Government, Privacy and Data Protection
13:00
Use of AI Based Technologies in International Arbitration (abstract)
13:30
African governments and the influence of corruption on the proliferation of cybercrime in Africa: Wherein lies the rule of law? (abstract)
14:00
The new rules on audiovisual media: a step forward or a hollow shell when it comes to vlogger advertising? (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 4F: Financial and Tax aspect of technology regulation
13:00
Finding the Balance between Security and Human Rights in the EU Border Security Ecosystem (abstract)
13:30
A presentation of “A State of Creativity” (abstract)
14:00
The role of the individual in EU data protection law (abstract)
14:30-16:00 Session 5A: The Philosophical Foundations of Information Technology Law
14:30
The questions left unanswered: Sampling, quotation and dialogue in the aftermath of Pelham (abstract)
15:00
Unpacking self sovereign identity: origins, promises, and challenges (abstract)
15:30
Post-Conflict Environments as Regulatory Sandboxes (abstract)
14:30-16:00 Session 5B: Regulation on advertising
14:30
Unpacking due diligence in the era of workplace robotics: perspectives from different stakeholders (abstract)
15:00
The post editorial control era: how EU media law develops a model of cooperative responsibility corresponding to platforms’ organisational control. (abstract)
15:30
Article 17 of the CDSM Directive and Freedom of Expression: Shaping the Future of User- Generated Content (abstract)
14:30-16:00 Session 5C: Ethics of AI
14:30
Contract Law in the Age of Big Data1 (abstract)
15:00
Smart cities and the public interest conundrum: preserving the city and citizens’ rights in the era of smart urbanism (abstract)
15:30
Technology, Manupulation and Human Dignity (abstract)
14:30-16:00 Session 5D: Iot & Wearables vs. Security, Privacy & Data Protection?
14:30
An Assessment of the EU Kidsmodel of Internet Governance: A Case Study for School Children in India (abstract)
15:00
A Behavioral Perspective on Cybercrime: Complexities and Way Forward (abstract)
15:30
Patentability of AI and Blockchain: The Trend of the Computer-Implemented Invention (abstract)
14:30-16:00 Session 5E: IP & New Technologies: friends or foes?
14:30
Children’s data and TikTok: what’s happening in the EU and China? (abstract)
15:00
A “must-carry” obligation for online platforms? Exploring Article 17 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (abstract)
15:30
Don’t Tell Them now (or at all) – End User Notification Duties under GDPR and NIS Directive (abstract)
14:30-16:00 Session 5F: Fundamental principles of Privacy and Data Protection
14:30
AI and new military technologies – is there a regulation method? (abstract)
15:00
Taste Sensations: Has the IP system finally bitten off more than it can chew? (abstract)
15:30
Home and Home Protection in The Law: a Reflection (abstract)
16:00-16:15Coffee Break
16:15-17:45 Session 6A: Childrens rights and safety
16:15
Let them speak- regulating online abuse in secondary schools (abstract)
16:45
Deep learning facial recognition and AI-specific regulation: making filtering rules compatible with the case-law of the Strasbourg and Luxembourg courts (abstract)
17:15
Public undertakings meet the Data Economy: Implications of the Open Data & PSI Directive for the legal governance of data in the utility sector (abstract)
16:15-17:45 Session 6B: Safeguards and Justice
16:15
The “informatory purpose” in copyright: towards a new autonomous concept of EU law? (abstract)
16:45
The No Choice “Consent”- User consent in autonomous transport systems (abstract)
17:15
Cybercrime and Cybersecurity in Africa: Saving African Business in Digital Age (abstract)
16:15-17:45 Session 6C: Financial and Tax aspects of Privacy and Data Protection
16:15
NotPetya and the Fog of “Cyberwar”: Can the “Cyber Battlefield” be Insured? (abstract)
16:45
Go Privacy Go: Lessons Learned for Data Protection by Design and Default from Designing a Privacy-Friendly GoPiGo Toy Robot (abstract)
17:15
Loot boxes: children's opium? Private law remedies against loot boxes in video games (abstract)
16:15-17:45 Session 6D: Meta-legal aspects of Privacy and Data Protection
16:15
Countering dual-use technology export to dictators by means of EU trade secrets law: Limitations to Member States’ extraterritorial obligations to uphold the right to freedom of expression under the ECHR and the ICCPR (abstract)
16:45
Cybersecurity in a post-data environment: Considerations on the Regulation of Code and the role of Producer / Consumer Liability in Smart Devices (abstract)
17:15
The perks of co-regulation: a standard institutional arrangement for online regulation? (abstract)
16:15-17:45 Session 6E: Global dimension of technology regulation
16:15
DIGITAL CHILDREN AND THEIR RIGHT TO PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION: Does Article on Conditions Applicable to Child’s Consent Under the GDPR Tackle the Challenges of the Digital Era or Create Further Confusion? (abstract)
16:45
Automated Decision-making in Automated Driving: Striking a Balance between Individual Autonomy and General Road Safety (abstract)
17:15
A critical analysis of (the need for) legal safeguards regarding automated decision-making (abstract)
16:15-17:45 Session 6F: New Frontiers of technology regulation
16:15
Data Governance in the Cloud: Of Scarce Regulatory Resources and Tactical Delegated Enforcement (abstract)
16:45
From “Release and forget” to “Release and remember”: a risk-based licensing framework for disclosing anonymised data under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (abstract)
17:15
‘Responsibilising’ the Data Subject? Reasonable Expectations of Privacy and the Status of Digital Rights in the UK post-Brexit (abstract)
18:15-21:00Dinner at Eve and Awarding Ceremony Prizes
Wednesday, April 8th

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11:00-11:15Coffee Break
11:15-12:45 Session 9A: Blockchain and Smart Contracts
11:15
A Predictive Analysis of Wearables at Work: The Lawfulness Principle and Employers’ Implementation of Fitbits (abstract)
11:45
Towards a co-regulatory EU framework for online content sharing service providers’ liability for copyright infringements: from theory to practice. (abstract)
12:15
‘Interoperability’ and beyond: Mapping the needs from a regulatory perspective (abstract)
11:15-12:45 Session 9B: Finance, Tax and AI
11:15
Trust, Human Rights and Ethics: New Perspectives on Bulk Surveillance (abstract)
11:45
EU Privacy Regulation on the Content and the Carrier Layers: Does the Split Still Make Sense? (abstract)
12:15
Commercialisation of play in the digital era: a children’s rights perspective (abstract)
11:15-12:45 Session 9C: Childrens' privacy and data protection
11:15
Innovation and precaution: Will innovators be innovating, regardless of whether regulators are regulating? (abstract)
11:45
‘The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated’: Digitisation, competition law and capitalism (abstract)
12:15
“Contested uses of citizen-generated data for policy: exploring legitimization strategies” (abstract)
11:15-12:45 Session 9D: IPR at national and interational level
11:15
Enhancing Legal Compliance in Smart Contracts (abstract)
11:45
The Story Of Intermediary Obligations In IP Infringement Cases: Is India Following The European Way? (abstract)
12:15
A five-dimensional framework for assessing GDPR adequacy – UK case study (abstract)
11:15-12:45 Session 9E: Surveillance, Border control, and fundamental rights
11:15
State Surveillance, Manipulation, and the Right to Integrity of the Person (abstract)
11:45
Regulating banking capital adequacy transitions in an intangibles/IP debt finance sustainability context (abstract)
12:15
“Regulatory transitions in energy and law – the place of IP” (abstract)
11:15-12:45 Session 9F: Everything is personal data: now what? In search for new boundaries for protection against information-induced harms
11:15
Jurisdiction in online cross-border infringement of personality rights (abstract)
11:45
Should We Ban Political, Data-Driven and Targeted Online Campaigning? A Revisit to the Strasbourg Jurisprudence in the Era of Political Microtargeting (abstract)
12:15
Shining Legal Light on ‘Dark Patterns’ (abstract)
12:45-13:45Lunch Break
13:45-15:15 Session 10A: Regulating online platforms
13:45
Born to be authors: children, creativity and copyright (abstract)
14:15
Open banking and online financial activity - the promise of competition and the AML risks (abstract)
14:45
Digital Debt Collection. Opportunities, Abuses and Concerns (abstract)
13:45-15:15 Session 10B: Regulating Controversial Technologies
13:45
Can the Newly Reformed Australian Competition Law Stop Algorithms from Colluding? (abstract)
14:15
Law Enforcement Access to Encrypted Data Across Borders (abstract)
14:45
From Safe Harbour to Privacy Shield, certifications and consent: putting the EU data transfers regime to the test. (abstract)
13:45-15:15 Session 10C: Data Protection by Design and by Default
13:45
The Principle of Legal Certainty in the Light of Automated Determination and Application of Law (abstract)
14:15
Choosing the right approach to privacy and data protection ‘by design’ solutions: quick fixes at the seams or weaving long-lasting tapestries? (abstract)
14:45
Reconciling Substantive Data Protection and Freedom of Expression under the General Data Protection Regulation (abstract)
13:45-15:15 Session 10D: IPR, regulation, and new industries
13:45
Use of AI versus the principle of legal certainty in VAT: impossible regulatory challenge or a groundbreaking opportunity? (abstract)
14:15
Taxation of the Digital Economy: A New Paradigm for International Tax Relations (abstract)
14:45
How purpose limitation and legal bases falter in the face of the GDPR’s Preamble 50 (abstract)
13:45-15:15 Session 10E: Privacy and other legal disciplines: integration and complementarity
13:45
Iron Age to Information Age: A privacy perspective on the evolution of identification by governments (abstract)
14:15
Designing Pro-Competitive Data Pools: Which EU Competition Remedies for Data Silos? (abstract)
14:45
From cybersecurity to cyber resilience: quest for a legal basis in the EU Treaties (abstract)
13:45-15:15 Session 10F: Regulating technologies around and on the individual
13:45
Data ecosystems: towards complete integration of privacy in competition law (abstract)
14:15
Accountability and transparency of information collected by facial recognition technology systems (abstract)
14:45
Fishing in the data lake for tax purposes (abstract)
15:15-16:45 Session 11A: Regulating Industries and Interoperatioability
15:15
Exploring the Use of Smart Devices by Vulnerable People from a Data Protection Law Perspective (abstract)
15:45
New technologies in legal education: a necessity or merely a trend? (abstract)
16:15
The Invisible Hand/Mind within the Black Box (abstract)
15:15-16:45 Session 11B: Interaction and conflict of regulatory interventions
15:15
Distributing authority – state sovereignty in the age of blockchain (abstract)
15:45
The regulation of artificial intelligence by ethical principles: Are soft law principles a relevant framework? (abstract)
16:15
'Regulating online harmful content' (abstract)
15:15-16:45 Session 11C: Data Protection and Privacy in the post-BREXIT process
15:15
From trust in the contracting party to trust in the code in contract performance: a critical perspective on the applicability of existing laws to smart legal contracts. (abstract)
15:45
technology mediated trust (abstract)
16:15
Reimagining Electronic Communications Regulatory Environment with AI: Self-Regulation Embedded in “Techno-Regulation” (abstract)
15:15-16:45 Session 11D: IPR looking at the future
15:15
Should consent for data processing be privileged in health research? A comparative legal analysis (abstract)
15:45
The Threshold is the Place to Pause (abstract)
16:15
Drawing up a national ethical framework for the development and deployment of trustworthy and responsible AI: Not a case of one-size-fits-all (abstract)
15:15-16:45 Session 11E: Individual vs. Society or Individual with Society?
15:15
Moving Beyond the Absence of “Evil”- Social Media and Privacy By Design (abstract)
15:45
Digital Constitutionalism and Internet Bills of Rights: The Force of Declarations (abstract)
16:15
Algorithmic Opacity, Private Accountability, and Corporate Sustainability Disclosure in the Age of Artificial intelligence (abstract)
15:15-16:45 Session 11F: Regulation of Technologocal innovation
15:15
Crossing over to the dark side: averting dark patterns through the force of consumer protection law (abstract)
15:45
Consumer Protection, Algorithmic Creditworthiness Assessment, and the Regulation of Technological Innovation (abstract)
16:15
Is Flexible Regulation for Artificial Intelligence-Based Medical Products Appropriate? Examining the US FDA’s Proposed Use of Principles-Based Regulation (abstract)
16:45-18:15 Session 12A: Protection of individuals and new technologies
16:45
Conceptualising copyright exceptions as user rights: the impact of contracting out (abstract)
17:15
The Legal Response to Online Disinformation in Germany, France and Taiwan (abstract)
17:45
HOW NEWS RECOMMENDERS AFFECT THE FREEDOM OF NEWS USERS: INSIGHTS FROM REPUBLICAN THEORY AND CONSEQUENCES FOR LAW (abstract)
16:45-18:15 Session 12B: Online Regulation
16:45
Self-generated Imagery of Children: Reconciling the Law, Norms & Safety (abstract)
17:45
“Of course you have nothing to hide – but then again, it’s not about you”: A critical view of consent as “individual control” in EU data protection (abstract)