Bio:
Mr. Michael Vanfleteren has a degree in law from the Universite Catholique de Louvain and a post-graduate degree in law (LLM) from University College London. He previously worked as trainee in the data protection unit of the European Commission and as legal researcher at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is currently working as legal adviser at the secretariat of the European Data Protection Supervisor.
A data protection view on the Internet of Things
Abstract:
The lecture will discuss about the growing evolution of Internet of things and its impact on data protection. Based on this, I will present the different aspects relating to EDPS' tasks towards the development of IoT, via his supervision, consultation and cooperation tasks. The implementation of privacy and data protection safeguards will also be touched upon.