Session
Organizer 1: Natalia Carfi, 🔒Open Data Charter
Organizer 2: Gaston Wright, Civic Compass
Organizer 3: de los Santos Mercedes , Open Data Charter
Organizer 4: Joaquin Herrero, Civic Compass
Organizer 5: Renato Manuel Berrino, Open Data Charter
Speaker 1: Natalia Carfi, Civil Society, Intergovernmental Organization
Speaker 2: Joaquin Herrero, Civil Society, Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
Speaker 3: Renato Manuel Berrino, Civil Society, Intergovernmental Organization
Gaston Wright, Civil Society, Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
de los Santos Mercedes , Civil Society, Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
Renato Manuel Berrino, Civil Society, Intergovernmental Organization
Roundtable
Duration (minutes): 90
Format description: We believe that the layout is the best for a participatory session like the one we want to lead. The core plan is to briefly introduce the research results and then use the rest of the time listening to participants both online and offline. If the room allows us to, we would like to split the participants into small groups and have deeper conversations that way. We will have prepared a series of questions and materials to share with the participants to help the conversation flow and have members of our teams facilitating those smaller groups. .
a. Can data privacy regulations be copy and pasted elsewhere and have the same result?
b. Understanding that data flows through countries borders, how does one regional piece of legislation impact elsewhere in the world?
c. What is the dialogue between Personal Data Protection and Access to Public Information? What tensions exist?
d. What are the lessons and challenges we can observe in the weighting of both institutes? Is it possible to achieve a balance? Based on regional trends, can we think of recommendations and solutions to common problems in Europe and Latin America?
What will participants gain from attending this session? The participants of the session will be able to explore the main characteristics of the Personal Data Protection and Access to Public Information regulations in Europe and Latin America, through different indicators. At the same time, we will explore practical cases (judicial and extra-judicial) to understand how the tension between both rights is resolved in practice. We hope that this information will be inspiring and useful to solve dilemmas that continue to arise, as well as to learn about cases and concerns from different sectors and participants.
Description:
States, Access to Information and Privacy Protection: how to solve the dilemma? We propose to present and explore different experiences from stakeholders from different sectors and regions, to learn together: existing principles and regulations, good practices and concrete cases of application, and concrete actions being carried out.
Open Data Charter (ODC) and Civic Compass conducted a research project and we found evidence that the European General Directive on Regulating Privacy (GDRP) has had, and will continue to have, an impact on how personal information and privacy are being regulated in other regions. In this case we will showcase a research project on its impact in the Latin American region.
Regulatory frameworks have a lot to do with context, historical institutional arrangements and even constitutional rights. But we have seen a lot of push for countries to adopt GDPR-like regulations in other regions of the world. Would such a regulation make legal sense elsewhere?
The ODC and Civic Compass partnered to try to understand how the Right for Privacy and the Right to access information found (or not) its balance in Europe and in Latin America in this digitalized context and how the different regulatory frameworks operate across borders.
We have collected practical cases where the balance between those Rights has been contested and the legal resolution of those cases. In this workshop we would love to discuss them but also learn from other similar cases in different regions of the world. Through a participatory approach, we will ask for both online and offline input about similar cases, other regulatory frameworks and challenges civil society organizations and governmental offices have found.
The main objective of the session is to present the results of our study, learn other attendees, and work together towards finding the rights balance in changing environments
We would like to expand the research project to other regions so this workshop is a great opportunity to understand where we should take the research next, learn from different regulatory frameworks in other regions and specific countries. We also hope to leave the session with potential new practical cases to bring into this second phase of the study and potential new partners to conduct those new research projects with.
Hybrid Format: As we hope to have small group discussions, we would do the same for both online and offline participants via Zoom or a similar platform. We will require online participants to share their main points of discussion just as offline participants do.
The short initial presentation will be streamed online for everyone to see at the same time and an online moderator will be ensuring that the questions posed online receive attention and are shared during the session. As we explained, we then would move into small group discussions and both the online and offline groups would be moderated by ODC and Civic Compass members. At the time for groups to share their input, we will showcase the online groups in a screen for in-person participants to see and will share the offline presentations via Zoom also.