#DataProtectionHour: AmCham Discussion with Prof.dr. Nadezhda (Nadya) Purtova, Professor of Law, Innovation, and Technology

The AmCham Data Protection Task Force has the pleasure to invite members to a discussion on the concept of personal data in the GDPR and how anchoring legal protection on this concept leads to over - and under inclusiveness of the data protection law, with special guest Prof.dr. Nadezhda (Nadya) Purtova, Professor of Law, Innovation, and Technology at Utrecht University’s School of Law.

The online event will take place on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, between 11:00 am - 12:00 pm.

Participation is open to AmCham Romania members, free of charge, based on prior registration online here, by Tuesday, October 15 17, 2024, 5:00 pm. All registered participants will be provided with the connection details via email.

We encourage you to share questions for our speakers in advance, by email to Oana Dobrițescu, Advocacy Specialist at odobritescu@amcham.ro. Questions received via email will be addressed with priority.

For any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Meet the speaker:

Nadya Purtova is Professor of Law, Innovation, and Technology at Utrecht University’s School of Law, following previous positions at Tilburg Institute of Technology and Society (TILT), the Netherlands. Her research focuses on how to understand and tackle socio-technical change related to information technologies in areas including data protection law, data ownership, data law and (collective) governance. Nadya was awarded a 2016 ERC Starting Grant and recently completed an ERC project that proposed how legal protection against information-related problems, including data protection law, should be reformed based on understanding of information and data in information studies and economics. She is the author of Property rights in personal data: a European perspective (Kluwer Law International 2011) and “The law of everything. Broad concept of personal data and future of EU data protection law” (2018). Her recent academic publications include “Code as personal data: implications for data protection law and regulation of algorithms” (2023, with Ronald Leenes), “From knowing by name to targeting: the meaning of identification under the GDPR” (2022) and “Data as an economic good, data as a commons, and data governance” (2024, with Gijs van Maanen). She is on the editorial boards of Technology and Regulation, Computer Law & Security Review, Global Privacy Law Review, and Utrecht Law Review. Nadya holds a PhD (cum laude) from Tilburg University, MSc from Leiden University and LLM from Central European University.