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National Privacy Conference 2024: bright spots and success stories

During the National Privacy Conference of Privacy First and ECP on January 24, 2024, the Dutch Privacy Awards were presented: awards for companies and organizations that stand out positively in the field of privacy. The theme of this year's conference was "education and privacy," with four presentations by five top experts. These also focused on what is going well.

24 January 2024

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Katja MurAutoriteit Persoonsgegevens, AP) outlined a number of positive developments, including the initiative for a children's AP, the creation of a national FG register, and the standardized agreements of SIVON and SURF to take a lot of work off the hands of schools and higher education institutions.

Sjoera Nas (Privacy Company) spoke enthusiastically and passionately about the successes she and her organization have now achieved in putting pressure on tech giants such as Microsoft and Google to really take privacy seriously. For which her organization does not shy away from unconventional means (more about this later, in a more extensive article on the Privacy First site). Also noteworthy: at the hands of Nas, Zoom is now the most privacy-friendly video conferencing tool.

José van Dijck (University of Utrecht professor) focused on privacy in higher education. Partly in response to the problems that arose in the corona period with digital surveillance in online exams, and the recent problems with mass implementation of GPT3 in all kinds of systems, ranging from learning accelerators to chat applications. All this led to a fruitful discussion about "public values in education" (autonomy, justice and humanity), and to the so-called Values Guide of SURF and Kennisnet.

Larissa Zegveld and Sabrina van Miltenburg (2x Kennisnet) discussed digital security in primary education, in which once again the Values Guide proved to play an important role. Among other things as a useful tool for developers. But they also showed how indispensable education in digital literacy is: the average student doesn't turn his hand to fooling the algorithms of TikTok and Instagram, but has no idea of the dangers of facial recognition, which was used at all kinds of vacation parks last summer.

Dutch Privacy Awards 2024:

  • Privacy Simulation - winner in the awareness category. Privacy Simulation is a game format that teaches your colleagues in a fun way to appropriately deal with individuals' information. They learn how an organization can guard against data breaches and recognize crisis situations.

  • Jet-Stream - winner in the technology category. Jet-stream is a streaming service that has made privacy protection a revenue model. Advertisers do not get any personal data from viewers, only anonymized data and data about the context of the stream viewed. No cookies are even used.

  • Public Transport Groningen Drenthe - winner in application category. In cooperation with Roseman Labs, Publiek Vervoer Groningen Drenthe worked to find the best available privacy protection for analyzing the travel behavior of people with a WMO indication, without access to their personal data.

  • Oasys Now received the incentive award. Oasys Now has developed a platform on which patients worldwide can participate in clinical trials more safely and quickly. 

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