“20 Talks” is a series of insightful discussions with 20 experts and influential personalities across diverse domains, looking into the profound implications of privacy and data protection within their specific spheres. In these talks, we will delve into the privacy domain, seeking to foster a deeper understanding of interplays between technology, policy, and other areas. By discussing the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead, we want to highlight the pivotal role that data protection plays in our society.
The series of talks is scheduled for release throughout 2024.
Eva Galperin

Eva Galperin

Director of Cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Everything has the potential to be better in the future. I am happy to see increased use of end-to-end encryption in the past 20 years and I'd like to see this continue in the next 20 years
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Katherine Race Brin

Chief Privacy Officer at the World Bank
The volume and complexity of data is growing exponentially bringing great opportunities for international organisations, but also risks, particularly in data management and privacy protection.
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Caroline Sinders

Machine-learning-design researcher and artist
If we are going to make better products for people, regulation is a part of that. And this is a part of the design process then. It becomes a necessary part of creating tech innovation.
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Ségolène Martin

CEO and founding partner at Kantify
We use data to train a model and algorithms to find the right treatment for a certain disease for which there is no cure.
Ayleen Charlotte

Ayleen Charlotte

Leading voice on the Netflix show "The Tinder Swindler"
I was a prey to the fraudsters because I shared my day-to-day life on social media, that made me a prey to criminals.
Paul Ash

Paul Ash

Chief Executive of the Christchurch Call Foundation
The Christchurch attacks were the most shocking manifestation of an abuse of privacy.
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Eliška Pírková

Senior Policy Analyst at the Access Now
Nowadays, we fully realise that there cannot be a successful case of content moderation or establishing human rights compliant regime for user-generated content without protecting users or people's data.
Nataša Pirc Musar

Nataša Pirc Musar

President of the Republic of Slovenia
Data minimisation is a key point that every single person needs to be aware of. Be curious, ask questions. Why data is needed for data controllers?
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Hellen Mukiri-Smith

Researcher/Advisor on AI and Human Rights at Amnesty Tech
We are seeing governments increasingly using algorithmic decision making systems designed to analyse a wide range of personal and sensitive data for surveillance purposes.
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Peter J. Hustinx

Former European Data Protection Supervisor
The new rules of the AI Act come in addition to the GDPR that continues to apply to the processing of personal data, training data and use data.
Daniel J. Solove

Daniel J. Solove

Professor of Intellectual Property and Technology Law, George Washington University Law School
With the vast amount of data collected and the powerful data analytics at disposal, we are on the path to a privacy dystopia.
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Amba Kak

Co-Executive Director of AI Now Institute
The decisions right now about whether or not to use AI in a particular context are not decided in the interest of the public, but purely on whether it will eventually lead to more profitability for a few companies.
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Jan Philipp Albrecht

Co-President of the Heinrich Böll Foundation
Digital autonomy or sovereignty for the European Union is the precondition for assuring the implementation of legal principles and constitutional frameworks in the digital environment.
Koen Lenaerts

Koen Lenaerts

President of the Court of Justice of the European Union
Just as the law serves the people, digital technologies must serve the people
Frances Haugen

Frances Haugen

Advocate for accountability and transparency in social media
What are the incentives social media platforms work under? What are the incentives these companies operate under? And if we don't stand firm in demanding our rights and demanding better, we will get a race to the bottom.
Carissa Véliz

Carissa Véliz

Associate Professor at the University of Oxford
Democracy is the best system we know to have the greatest possible level of freedom
Towela Niyrenda Jere

Towela Nyirenda Jere

Head of Infrastructure, Digitalisation and Energy Division at the African Union Development Agency
Whatever is the privacy I want in the offline world, should be the same in the online world
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Michaela Musilová

Astrobiologist and Analog Astronaut
I'm hopeful that a huge international project to get humans safely to Mars and back to Earth will be able to create bridges and increase international collaboration instead of creating more barriers.
Amandeep Singh Gill

Amandeep Singh Gill

UN Secretary General's Envoy on Technology
Privacy is a fundamental dimension of human dignity and freedom. It is about human agency in terms of how we process life without being subject to prejudice, hostility or coercion.
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Max Schrems

Privacy lawyer and Honorary chair of Nyob
If you are a citizen, there is no prior notification in case of a breach of the law, but if you are a big tech company, the consequences are minimal.