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Mr Paolo Balboni

Professor of Privacy, Cybersecurity, and IT Contract Law
Maastricht University
Participates in 4 items

Paolo Balboni (PhD) is a Professor of Privacy, Cybersecurity, and IT Contract Law at the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC) within the Maastricht University Faculty of Law. He is also the Chairman of the European Patent Office (EPO) Data Protection Board and a Member of the EUMETSAT Data Protection Supervisory Authority. Paolo Balboni is a top tier European lawyer specialized in Privacy, ESG, Data Sharing, AI, ICT and Cybersecurity law. 

He is a Founding Partner of ICT Legal Consulting (ICTLC), an international law firm, and ICT Cyber Consulting (ICTCC), a company specialized in information/data security. Prof. Dr. Balboni is Member of the European Commission’sExpert Group on B2B data sharing and cloud computing contracts and he has acted as the legal counsel for the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) on several projects. He co-chairs the Privacy Level Agreement (PLA) Working Group of Cloud Security Alliance and he is a Member of the Europrivacy Board of Experts.

Sessions in which Mr Paolo Balboni participates

Tuesday 5 April, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Rome
6:00 PM
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM | 2 hours
Social Events

Wednesday 6 April, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Rome
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour
Data Protection in PracticeSocio-economic Perspective

Thursday 7 April, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Rome
12:00 PM
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour

The panel will present to the audience the marketing and advertising EU legal framework and recent decisions of EU Supervisory Authorities. The main issues related to privacy compliance for digital marketing and behavioural/ programmatic advertising will be discussed. Moreover, the speakers will share their reflections on how to convert the security &privacy "vicious cycle” into a “virtuous cycle” by providing...

3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
Socio-economic Perspective

The rise of private authorities, albeit in the a-territoriality space such as the Web, is representative of an economic and social phenomenon that cannot disregard the respect of legal rules, especially for the protection of the right to privacy, the right to data protection, and other fundamental rights. On the one hand, the GDPR has provided a new approach for the autonomy of individuals, especially for companies which perform data processing...