Name: Christophe

Family Name: GEUENS

Affiliation: ICRI-K.U.Leuven-IBBT

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Short BIO

Christophe Geuens (°1982) graduated at K.U.Leuven in 2007. Already as a student he worked on issues at the intersection between criminal law and the use of GPS. After graduating he started working in August 2007 in Logistics for Katoen Natie in Antwerp (Belgium) and Terneuzen (the Netherlands). He joined ICRI in May 2008.

Currently, he is mainly working on the legal issues of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) and logistics. The main focus of his work is related to the protection of personal data and liability. Regarding privacy he has mainly worked on the issues of tracking of people in location-based ITS systems such as electronic road tolling and eCall and video monitoring applications. He has also worked on intellectual property law, transport law and public procurement, all related to ITS and logistics. Additionally he has also built up expertise on the liability for e-Health applications in the IWT “adapid”- project. Christophe examines these research i.a. in the IBBT-projects NextGenITS, URBAN, VICATS and Mobiroute.

Title of the presentation

Privacy Implications of Electronic Road Tolling

Abstract

The goal of this presentation is to discuss the private life and data protection issues related to electronic road tolling systems and the effectiveness of the existing legal safeguards. Electronic road tolling comes in a variety of implementations. Each implementation has a specific impact on private life and data protection. We will distinguish three categories: zone-based, point-to-point and wide-area systems. The former two categories have already been implemented and have been described comprehensively. The latter category has been under development for some time but it is still waiting for implementation. These systems present similarities and differences with regard to issues of private life and data protection that will be discussed. This paper will also pay attention to the origin of the differences. In relation thereto we will analyze Directive 2004/52/EC on Electronic Road Tolling and the associated Commission Decision C(2009)7547 and the proposal for an ITS Directive. These texts hold provisions on private life and data protection but also provisions relating to other aspects of road tolling but with a non-negligible impact on private life and data protection. A final part will address the open issues left from the aforementioned legal framework.

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