Data Protection and Privacy : Ideas That Drive Our Digital World

Hideyuki (“Yuki”) Matsumi is a doctoral researcher at the research group on Law Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) as well as the Health and Ageing Law Lab (HALL) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He is also a member of the New York Bar, and is a Project Associate Professor at Keio University in Japan.

Paul De Hert is Professor of Law at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. He is the Director of the research group on Fundamental Rights and Constitutionalism and senior member of the research group on Law, Science, Technology & Society. He is also Associate Professor of Law and Technology at the Tilburg Institute for Law and Technology and Co-Director of the Brussels Privacy Hub.

Dara Hallinan is a legal academic working in the intellectual property rights department at FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Germany. He is editor of the data protection law bi-weekly Data Protection Insider and is programme director for CPDP.

Diana Dimitrova is a post-doctoral researcher in the Intellectual Property Rights department at FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure GmbH, Germany. She is also affiliated with the Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) Research Group at the VUB. She is the co-editor the data protection law bi-weekly Data Protection Insider and assists the programming director of the CPDP Annual Conference.

Eleni Kosta is Professor of Technology Law and Human Rights at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT, Tilburg University, the Netherlands). She is member of the Cyprus Council of Recognition of Higher Education Qualifications (KY.S.A.T.S.) and observer to the Europol Financial Intelligence Public Private Partnership (EFIPPP). Eleni also collaborates as an Associate with timelex.