How to enable truly informed choices? Let's co-draft the standard for Art. 88b Digital Omnibus!

  • Workshop
  • Le Baixu
  • Thursday 21.05 — 16:00 - 17:15

Organising Institution

Law & Innovation / Einstein Center Digital Future / Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society

Europe

According to its current draft, the EU Commission has the task of developing or commissioning the development of a standard for the technical implementation of Article 88b Digital Omnibus. Article 88b solves the current cookie banner problem by forcing service providers to respect the signals of consent agents. Consent agents allow consumers to set their preferences for their consent once and in advance, which the agent then passes on to the provider of the service used. However, the success of Article 88b in practice, and thus already in the trilogue, will depend heavily on how these agents are technically designed. Will consumers simply be enabled to accept or reject everything without still understanding what the data is actually to be used for and what the advantages and disadvantages are? In this workshop, we want to critically discuss a draft standard (ConStand) that we have developed to avoid this risk.

Host

Jan Schallaböck

ISO / DIN / iRights.Law - Europe

Jan Schallaböck, attorney-at-law, is a partner at iRights.Law and in charge of the data protection and compliance practice of the firm. Before joining iRights.Law, he was employed with the Data Protection Authority of the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein (ULD), being tasked with the working within various European research projects together with – amongst others – Microsoft, IBM, SAP and the Universities of Oxford, Leuven and Frankfurt. His commitment to international standardization also stems from this context. Jan is chairman of ISO PC 317 on "Consumer protection: privacy by design for consumer goods and services”, and he also has been serving as Vice-Convener/Convener-support to the ISO/IEC Working Group on privacy and identity management (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27/WG 5) for more than 15 years.

Host

Felix Mikolasch

noyb - Austria

Felix Mikolasch is a Data Protection Lawyer at noyb - European Center for Digital Rights, a Vienna-based not-for-profit association focused on strategic GDPR enforcement.

Host

Valentin Rupp

Law & Innovation - Europe

Valentin Rupp is a lawyer and has been conducting research at the Berlin University of the Arts since 2021 on the regulation of data-driven innovation and large online platforms. His work on data protection law focuses in particular on data protection regulation in the contexts of buildings, mobility and healthcare, the legal significance and design of technical anonymisation models, and the design and automation of consent processes and automated risk assessments.

Host

Max von Grafenstein

Einstein Center Digital Future / Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society / Law & Innovation - Europe

Prof. Dr. Max von Grafenstein, LL.M. is professor for Digital Self-Determination at the Einstein Center Digital Future (University of the Arts) and has been built up and run the Startup Law Clinic at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG). He has also been a practicing lawyer since 2011 and is founder of the academic spin-off Law & Innovation. In the last 10 years, Max has been developing interdisciplinary methods for developing and empirically ensuring effective data protection by design solutions. Funded by the German Ministry of Education, the academic spin-off Law & Innovation is developing consent banners and agents that enable data subjects to more intuitively decide for or against the processing of their data.