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The Catalan Data Protection Authority (APDCAT) and the School of Public Administration of Catalonia (EAPC) are organizing a day on September 19, to highlight the problems surrounding the use of neurotechnologies capable of recording the brain activity and the impact they can have on people's privacy. As part of the closing ceremony of the 2024 data protection officers training course, expert Ignasi Beltran de Heredia will present the challenges of dealing with neurodata, considered particularly sensitive biometric data.
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Date19.09.2024 - 19.09.2024
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Coinciding with the closing ceremony of the specialized training course for data protection officers (DPD) 2024, the APDCAT and the EAPC are promoting the debate on the possible impacts of the use of neurodata on the rights of people, and especially in privacy.
Thus, on September 19 at 4 p.m., the EAPC meeting room (c/ Girona, 20) will host the conference 'Neurotechnology. An achievable challenge for data protection?', by the expert Ignasi Beltran de Heredia, professor of Labor Law and Social Security at the UOC. He will talk about the challenges of preserving the "unconscious self", in a society where technology defines our way of being, and he will reflect on the right to data protection and its ability to protect us against the risks of neurotechnologies. Then, around 5 p.m., there will be time for debate on other issues, such as the possibility of generating stimuli that modify the person's behavior or the risk of others "thinking" for us, using these technologies.
Subsequently, the director of the APDCAT, Meritxell Borràs, will be in charge of delivering the certificates to the DPDs who have passed the course in this edition.
The session is open to the public and places are limited. Prior registration is required, by sending an email to jornades.apdcat@gencat.cat.