'Platforms as Privacy Regulators' - Joris van Hoboken: CIPIL Seminar

Professor Joris van Hoboken (Professor of Law, LSTS, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Senior Researcher, IViR, University of Amsterdam) spoke on the topic of "Platforms as Privacy Regulators" at a seminar on 21 November 2019. In this talk I will explore the developments and legal consequences of different types of platforms being asked and incentivized to start acting as privacy regulators, setting standards (policy and technical) for the collection and use of personal information by their business users and policing these business users on the basis of these policies. First, I will explain the emergence of platforms as privacy regulators with examples from the...