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Name: Jan
Family Name: Dhont
Affiliation: Partner at Lorenz
Personal web-site: www.lorenz-law.com
Short BIO
Jan is a partner in the Brussels office of Lorenz, an international law firm with focus on the Central Asian market. He specializes in data protection and privacy, telecommunications, media and technology law.
Jan previously worked as in-house counsel at the Belgian Data Protection Authority and worked during five years as a legal research at the Centre de Recherche Informatique et Droit of the Law Faculty of the University of Namur. He worked as an attorney at Hunton & Williams LLP and Crowell & Moring LLP before setting up his own practice.
Jan counsels private corporations and public institutions (including Data Protection Authorities) on various technology and privacy law issues associated with the development and deployment of information technology. He has expertise in providing privacy compliance solutions for the pharmaceutical, insurance, banking, direct marketing and telecom industry. He assists on a daily basis international corporations with data protection issues such as international data transfers, human resources privacy, outsourcing of data processing, information security, etc.
Jan held the opening speech at the occasion of the Opening Ceremony of the Brussels Bar where he assessed the protection of privacy by the Belgian and European public authorities (Reference to the text can be found below – In Dutch).
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Panel discussion
On-line publications
“Privacy, het vijgeblad van de autoritaire staat? Mijmeringen bij de bescherming van de persoonlijke levenssfeer in de informatiemaatschappij,” http://www.rpc.be/covers_arch_4/poelaertplein.pdf, p. 10 – 17.
Co-author, The Safe Harbor Implementation Study, http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/privacy/docs/studies/safe-harbour-2004_en.pdf
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