Taking the Temperature of Tech Policy Debates in Brussels at CPDP

About this episode

This episode reflects on the CPDP conference, discussing key tech policy debates and featuring interviews with notable figures in the field.

In this episode, we reflect on the 19th edition of CPDP (Computers, Privacy and Data Protection), the major Brussels tech policy conference, held last week under this year's theme, "Competing Visions, Shared Futures." We discuss the dominant debates from the gathering, including the contested Digital Omnibus simplification package, digital and tech sovereignty, researcher access to platform data under the Digital Services Act, the rising prominence of child online safet We feature voices from across the conference, including Tech Policy Press contributing editor Mark Scott , AlgorithmWatch's Oliver Marsh , the Knight-Georgetown Institute's Peter Chapman , the Center for Democracy and Technology's Marie Seck , Project SENTIMENT's Joel Baumann , Mozilla's Svea Windwehr , and conference director Barbara Lazarotto . And, you’ll hear two interviews: a conversation with European Data Protection Supervisor Wojciech Wiewiórowski on whether the GDPR needs reform amid the simplification push, and a wide-ranging reflection from CPDP founder Paul De Hert on how the conference and the field of data protection have evolved over nearly two decades, the value of reasoned disagreement, and why…

People in this episode

Host: Tech Policy Press

Guests: Wojciech Wiewiórowski, Paul De Hert

Topics covered

• tech policy
• data protection
• digital sovereignty
• child online safety
• Digital Services Act
• GDPR reform

Keywords

• CPDP
• Digital Omnibus
• data access
• tech policy debates
• Europe
• data protection
• GDPR
• child safety

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AlgorithmWatch, Knight-Georgetown Institute, Center for Democracy and Technology, Project SENTIMENT, Mozilla

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