Workshop on "business and human rights in the digital era"

The development of business activities in the digital era can have an impact on the enjoyment of several internationally recognized human rights, especially the right to privacy and freedom of expression, as well as on the protection of personal data. Big data analysis and profilation techniques, mass collection and storage of personal data and international data transfers are practices worthy of consideration from the international and European legal perspectives. This workshop aims at examining the relevant legal instruments in this field, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (the GDPR), the EU-US Privacy Shield, the case law developed by the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union, so as to understand the role that States, Law Enforcement Agencies, and ICT companies are expected to play in this context. A specific attention is paid to the application of the business and human rights legal instruments and a specific focus is devoted to trade of hacking tools and to the role of block-chain techniques.

Detailed programme:
- Personal data protection, the rights to privacy and the interactions between business and human rights in the digital era
- The EU GDPR
- International data transfers and the EU-US Privacy Shield
- Trade of hacking tools and the WTO legal framework
- The discipline of cyber Attacks
- Blockchain and CSR.