Data protection and collective actions. European and US perspectives

The fast-paced development of digital technologies, and the massive, cross-border, global dimension of the processing of personal data in the Internet, have necessitated the collective enforcement of data protection rights.

This seminar delves into developments in European collective actions, mass violations of data subjects' rights, and the use of collective actions for the protection of supra-individual and homogenous interests in the Europe and the US, and aspects of cross-border litigation.

The focus of the seminar will the research conducted by Marina Federico for her book Protezione dei dati personali e tutela collettiva.

This seminar is organised by the European Civil Justice Centre.

Program

10.00 Xandra Kramer (Erasmus University Rotterdam/European Civil Justice Centre) - Opening and welcome

10.05 Stefaan Voet (KU Leuven/ European Civil Justice Centre) - Introduction: Developments in European collective redress

10.25 Marina Federico (University of Naples "Parthenope") - Data protection and collective actions. Itineraries of legal comparison in Europe and the United States

11.00 Eduardo Silva de Freitas (TMC Asser Institute/Erasmus University Rotterdam) - An Apple a day won't keep litigation away: private international law's new path for collective data protection claims

11.15 Discussion, moderated by Stefaan Voet