17th Annual BCLT Privacy Lecture: Data Privacy on Trial

International House, UC Berkeley

Prof. Dr. iur. Indra Spiecker genannt Döhmann, LL.M. (Georgetown Univ.) will give this year’s signature BCLT Annual Privacy Lecture on the topic of Data Privacy on Trial – A Comparative Analysis of Enforcement, Damages, Sanctions, and Standing in EU and U.S. Law.

Commentators:
Sari Mazzurco, Assistant Professor of Law, Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University
Margot E. Kaminski, Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School

CLE will be offered.

Data Privacy on Trial – A Comparative Analysis of Enforcement, Damages, Sanctions, and Standing in EU and U.S. Law

The European Data Privacy Regime under the GDPR stresses that a law is only as good as its enforcement. Thus, EU data protection law includes a refined, complex set of instruments to incentivize data processors and to deter them from deviating from the law. This lecture analyzes the reach of civil actions by the data subject and administrative actions through independent data protection agencies, of private damages and public sanctions, and of collective prosecutions. It takes a comparative approach and looks as well at the information privacy law in the United States concerning the constitutional law of standing and privacy harms.