Programme and Speakers - Surveillance and Digitalisation around Childhood

Carmen Jurado, EDPB Trainee

Keynote Speech:

From social media to AI agents:

How technological developments affect children (and what the EU should do about it)

Keynote Speech:

 The Platformization of the Family:

Children’s Privacy & Wellbeing as a Collective Responsibility

Panel Discussion: 

Fostering Data Protection Compliance and Privacy Literacy in the Classroom

Wojciech Wiewiórowski, European Data Protection Supervisor, EDPS

Wojciech Wiewiórowski has been the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) since December 6th 2019.

He is also an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Gdańsk. He was, among others, an adviser in the field of e-government and information society for the Minister of Interior and Administration, and the Director of the Informatisation Department at the Ministry of Interior and Administration in Poland. He also represented Poland in the committee on Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations (the ISA Committee) assisting the European Commission.

Wojciech Wiewiórowski was also the Inspector General for the Protection of Personal Data (Polish Data Protection Commissioner) between 2010-2014 and the Vice Chair of the Working Party Article 29 in 2014. In December 2014, he was appointed Assistant European Data Protection Supervisor. After the death of the Supervisor - Giovanni Buttarelli in August 2019 - he replaced Mr. Buttarelli as acting EDPS.

His areas of scientific activity include first of all Polish and European IT law, processing and security of information, legal information retrieval systems, informatisation of public administration, and application of new IT tools (semantic web, legal ontologies, cloud, blockchain) in legal information processing.

Luca Bertuzzi, Senior AI Correspondent, MLex

Luca Bertuzzi is a tech journalist specialized in digital policy and European affairs. He is a Senior AI Correspondent at MLex. 

He previously worked at EURACTIV as Technology Editor, overseeing an international team of four reporters based in Brussels, Paris, and Berlin.

For his reporting, Luca has been awarded the 2024 AI Policy Leader Award from the Center for AI and Digital Policy Europe. 

He has collaborated with la Repubblica, Tagesspiegel, and Tech.eu, among other publications.

You can follow Luca’s work on X and LinkedIn.

Emma Beuckels, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Ghent

Dr. Emma Beuckels is an interdisciplinary media scholar at Ghent University, studying parent influencer practices and the ethics of involving children in influencer content. Her research examines how the platformization and commodification of family life mutually shape the online and offline lives of parents and children.

She explores the ethical implications of sharenting (the sharing of children’s information and images online) through a multi-stakeholder lens, advocating for collective responsibility in safeguarding children’s rights in digital spaces.

Emma is co-founder of Magditonline.be, a platform that raises awareness and provides guidance regarding children’s presence within social media (influencer) content. She is an associate editor at the International Journal of Advertising and serves on the board of the Netherlands-Flanders Communication Association (NeFCA).

Fabiola Bas Palomares, Lead Policy & Advocacy Officer, Eurochild

Fabiola Bas Palomares is Lead Policy & Advocacy Officer on Online Safety at Eurochild, an NGO aiming to bring positive change for children’s lives across Europe. 

She drives the organisation’s efforts to protect children’s rights in the digital environment, focusing on preventing online harm and ensuring children’s and civil society’s voices are included in shaping digital policy. 

Working extensively for the last 4 years with stakeholders from civil society, academia, tech industry and children, she has developed valuable insights on how to build safer and empowering online spaces for all children.

Ingrida Milkaitė, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Ghent

Ingrida Milkaite is a postdoctoral researcher at the Law & Technology research group and the Human Rights Centre at Ghent University. Her work focuses on human rights, privacy, data protection, and the impact of emerging technologies on children’s rights in the digital environment. 

She completed her PhD in 2021 with a thesis on children’s privacy and data protection under the EU GDPR, for which she and Eva Lievens received the inaugural Stefano Rodotà Award from the Council of Europe. Most recently, Ingrida concluded a postdoctoral project on children’s voice data and worked with UNESCO on digital platform governance in Europe. Her work has been recognised internationally, with the PTC Emerging Scholar Award and a nomination for the FWO Public Choice Award for her postdoctoral project.

Ingrida collaborates with NYU Stern’s Working Group on Gaming and Regulation and contributes to EU and international policymaking, including as a former member of the EU Special Group on the Code of Conduct on Age-Appropriate Design and a member of the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom.

Anne-Charlotte Recker, Front Office Director and Executive Committee Member, Belgian Data Protection Authority (APD/GBA)

Anne-Charlotte Recker is a member of the Executive Committee at the Belgian Data Protection and serves at the same time as the director of the DPA’s Front Office. 

She joined the DPA in 2020, and previously worked as a lawyer at the Brussels bar as well as in international organisations. Before joining the Belgian DPA, she also worked as a researcher and taught intellectual property law and electronic contracts in a higher education establishment. 

Anne-Charlotte Recker obtained her law degree from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), then also took courses at the KU Leuven (Masters Intellectual Property and ICT). She is fluent in 6 languages.

Andreea Șerban, Global Privacy & AI analyst, Future of Privacy Forum

Andreea Șerban is a Global Privacy and AI Analyst, supporting the Global Privacy team on the EU AI Act and its interplay with the GDPR, covering also AI and data protection legislation around the globe. 

A PhD candidate from the University of Iasi ‘Alexandru Ioan Cuza’ in Romania, Andreea is a researcher on data protection in international commercial law, holding a Law Degree and a Master of Laws in European Law from the University of Iasi and a Master of Arts in European Political and Governance Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium.

Before joining FPF, Andreea was a Bluebook trainee, working at the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Supervision and Enforcement Unit, a teaching assistant at the University of Iasi ‘Alexandru Ioan Cuza’ and a Legal Officer at the Romanian North-East Regional Development Agency in Brussels.

Isabelle Vereecken, Head of Secretariat, European Data Protection Board (EDPB)

Isabelle Vereecken is head of Secretariat of the European Data Protection Board. The EDPB Secretariat is in charge of providing legal support for the drafting of EDPB documents, IT solutions to ensure transparent communications between all the European national data protection authorities, handling EDPB media relations, as well as organizing all EDPB meetings.  She is leading the Secretariat from the beginning of its existence.

Prior working for the EDPB, she was a legal advisor at the Belgian Data Protection Authority for 10 years. In this position, she was in charge of international data transfers matters and she regularly contributed to the work of the Article 29 Working Party. In addition, she followed closely the negotiation of the General data protection regulation (GDPR), being detached at the European Commission working on the proposal and after by acting as an expert to support the Belgian government during the negotiation.

She started her career as a researcher and worked at the CRID (Computer and Law Research Centre – University of Namur) on data protection, intellectual property rights and e-commerce issues. 

She has a master degree in law from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) and a postgraduate degree in ICT law from the University of Namur.