The APDCAT presents the new Guide for developers in the ICT sector of Catalonia

The Catalan Data Protection Authority (APDCAT) is organizing on May 4, at 9:30 a.m., the conference "How to gain a competitive advantage from privacy by design and by default", to discuss how privacy by design can make new products and services more competitive in the European market, and also in the international one, where different regulatory frameworks are using the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as a standard. The conference will also serve to present to the Catalan technology sector the new guide "Privacy by design and privacy by default. Guide for developers”.

At 9.30 am, the director of the APDCAT, Meritxell Borràs, will welcome the assistences. Then, the coordinator of Technology and Information Security of the APDCAT, Albert Serra, will present the new guide. Later, at 10 a.m., cybersecurity expert Genís Margarit will deliver the conference "Privacy in the hands of the source code. Good and bad practices".

The time for the debate will arrive from 11 am, with the round table "How to incorporate privacy by design in an organization", moderated by Josep Puy, CEO of Data Risk. There will be participating the data protection representative of the Department of Education, Rosa Parrilla; the expert in data protection of the Legal Advice of the CTTI, Aida Mariscal; the head of the mHealth.cat Office, Carme Pratdepàdua i Bufill, the solution manager of the ICT Area of the Department of Social Rights, CTTI, Josep Maria Cabasés, and the head of the APDCAT Legal Advisory Service, Xavier Urios.