This event will examine recent changes in the U.S. legal safeguards for foreign surveillance programs, and will consider their significance in the context of European fundamental rights and data protection law. The European Commission has found that the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF), and attendant changes to U.S. law, meet the requirements of EU data protection law for data transfers to the United States. A challenge before the Court of Justice of the European Union to the prospective adequacy decision for the United States may be brought.
This conference will bring together EU and U.S. government officials, academic experts and company and civil society representatives for an in-depth exploration of the key dimensions of the DPF in relation to EU law.
Hybrid Event
Venue: The event is taking place at the premises of the MPI Luxembourg. Digital participation is possible. Upon invitation only.
Language: The conference will be held in English.
Programme
08:30 Registration and Welcome Coffee
Welcome and Introduction
09:00 - 09:10
by Pierre-Henri Conac (MPI Luxembourg & University of Luxembourg) and Kenneth Propp (Georgetown University Law Center)
Keynotes
09:10
by Bruno Gencarelli (European Commission) and Peter Winn (US Department of Justice)
Panel 1: Review of European Data Protection and Fundamental Rights Jurisprudence
09:30 - 10:50
Chair: Burkhard Hess (MPI Luxembourg)
Lead Speaker: Christopher Kuner (University of Copenhagen)
Interventions: Dylan Cors (US Department of Justice, National Security Division)
Nora Ni Loideain (University of London) Vanessa Franssen (University of Liege)
10:50 Coffee break
Panel 2: Necessity and Proportionality in Foreign Surveillance Law
11:10 - 12:30
Chair: Robert Spano (Gibson Dunn)
Lead Speaker: Theodore Christakis (University of Grenoble)
Interventions: Christian Svanberg (General Counsel, Danish Defense Intelligence Service)
Svetlana Yakovleva (De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek; University of Amsterdam) Cameron Kerry (Brookings Institution)
12:30 Lunch
Panel 3: Oversight and Redress Mechanisms in Foreign Surveillance Law
13:30 - 14:50
Chair: Lars Bay Larsen(Court of Justice of the European Union)
Lead Speaker: Nico van Eijk (Dutch Review Committee on the Intelligence and Security Services)
Interventions: Peter Swire (Georgia Tech)
Anna Buchta (Head of Unit, European Data Protection Supervisor)
Rebecca Richards (US Office of Director of National Intelligence)
Closing Remarks
14:50
by Kenneth Propp (Georgetown University Law Center) and Burkhard Hess (MPI Luxembourg)
