RELOADING DATA PROTECTION

CPDP2013 welcomed 650 guests to the conference. Over 1200 more people came to the free public events organized during the conference evenings. These events were also well attended by the regular conference participants who appreciated these more relaxed side events. The 3 day conference offered participants 46 panels and workshops and special sessions with 237 speakers from academia, public and private sectors and civil society. New institutions, groups and partners made themselves indispensable in helping setting up panels (the Human Technology Lab from TU Berlin, IVIR from Amsterdam University, and many others). Both the Council of Europe and the Polish Permanent Representation to the European Union provided their collaboration.

‍Our conference website reached 6793 unique visitors (+15%) with 11.040 visits to consult 27.645 pages (+19%) for January alone. Our busiest day was Tuesday 22 January, when we had 954 visitors exactly (a new record; with peaks of 100 visits/ hour) - in fact all week long we recorded between 600 and 954 visits daily! These figures and the output of the conference make us feel that we are responding to the mission of CPDP: “creating a platform animated by privacy stakeholders”. Youtube: for those of you who missed them, we have uploaded videos of many panels to our YouTube-channel.

Buy the book Gutwirth, S., Leenes, R. and P. De Hert, Reloading Data Protection, Dordrecht: Springer, 2014