We are pleased to announce that CRiTERIA will be present at the upcoming 9th EDEN Conference on Data Protection in Law Enforcement conference in The Hague, 19 September 2022 – 20 September 2022.
The project will be represented by Dr Aitana Radu of the University of Malta, one of the CRiTERIA consortium partners, and will be part of the discussion panel on the topic of “The Artificial Intelligence Buzzword Curse – Latest Trends and Developments”, alongside:
- David Leon (Moderator), Head of Data & AI Team, Europol
- Joanna Goodey, Head of Justice, Digital and Migration Unit, Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), Vienna
- Babak Akhgar, Professor of Informatics, Director of CENTRIC, Sheffield Hallam University, Fellow of British Computer Society, Sheffield
About the 9th EDEN Conference on Data Protection in Law Enforcement
Objective
Under the title “It’s the End of the World as We Know It – Data Protection and Law Enforcement in a Shifting World Order”, the 9th EDEN Conference will focus on the law enforcement challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian-Ukrainian War, two events that have changed Europe and the world since 2020. Their consequences on fundamental rights, data protection and cybersecurity from a law enforcement perspective will be discussed, drawing links to Europol’s new mandate whenever appropriate.The conference will attempt to approach the two events from a fundamental rights and data protection perspective, whilst raising awareness about the challenges the law enforcement sector has experienced during the last three years.
In particular, the 9th EDEN Conference intends to cover topics related to:
- EU sanctions, cyber attacks, & Europol’s role in a shifting world order
- Fundamental rights perspective on Europol’s new legal mandate
- Cyber space as a place for the spreading of disinformation, propaganda and online radicalisation
- How the use of VR goggles can reduce ethnic profiling
- How security and freedom can go hand in hand
- Latest trends and developments in artificial intelligence
- Policing the metaverse
- How the pandemic boosts hacking and insecurity
Key topics
- Emerging threats and challenges for law enforcement in the context of both, the pandemic and the Ukrainian crisis
- Fundamental rights and the amended Europol mandate
- Use of immersive technologies to advance the professionalization of local police teams
- New trends in Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Data Protection
