 My name is Barry Devereaux, I'm the manager of Archival Mechanics, and I'm in association with the Institute of International American Affairs. We are delighted to welcome you all to this afternoon's event. It's an estimate of the quality of the speaker at the moment, how the full attendance has happened since Saturday. So, the lives of all are coming off. As you know, in 2018, two new regulations are due to be implemented for us. The first one is the general data protection regulation, concerned with the protection of data. The rest of the room now are very familiar with the word within the term GTVR. I was with my elderly mother, I was visiting her on the weekend, and I just threw out a GTVR to see what's going to be actually happening again. She said, oh yeah, I've heard about that. We didn't start talking about cookies, but we didn't talk about the e-privacy regulation, which is the other big part of this. And that took some concerns, the confidentiality of communications, updated rules on cookies, provisions on marketing, and punitive protections against unsolicited communications. There was only the harmonization of data protection law across the EU, and I understand that that second regulation, I was afraid that Dr. Lardestine would talk about that, may come into force by the end of this year. Dr. Lardestine, who we're glad she's joined us today, happens to be European proud of Robert Jarrett, on the view of each of these recommendations known as the EPRAM. You know the rest of the day, she would discuss the European part of this recent adoption of EPRAM. And the progress that has likely to remain in this implementation over the course of 28 years. She would also discuss the implications for privacy, media, commerce, and the completion of the digital single market. Her address would be followed by a series of questions from Joyce O'Connor, chair of the IRREA's Digital Future Working Group, and then another hold on the floor for questions, so we will get an opportunity to ask questions from our speakers. So we need to finish a little later than TDA, so you can all go back to what Robert Jarrett was on today. So please join me in welcoming Dr. Margie Joyce. Thank you very much for inviting me here. First time in Ireland, I'm very excited. I love the country already before coming here, and I feel that there is a lot of similarities between my country Estonia and Ireland, because my country is also a small country, it's smaller than Ireland, three times smaller. And the country is also very eager to go as fast as possible towards this, say, full implementation of all opportunities this digital era is providing. And at the same time also, I suppose our country is kind of a test site for all kinds of new decorations, new things that we have developed, a lot of fee services as public. We have e-voting, which is more popular in the last elections, one third of the population used e-voting. And that means that some people are quite well informed and they trust these technologies. But trust in technology means that people also have to be aware of what's going on and then have to be educated and also have to take risks and then react to the risks appropriately. And lastly, we have a very big alarm, for example, concerning we have all the electronic and the identity it's all about. We have a big alarm that the system of the developer has really made some small mistake which could be really looked at. And I have to say that it was announced by government that all people have to change their certificates for the electronic identity card. And that was not high. But really, people would explain what is the reason, how to work, how to do that by internet or going and so on. And then we could cope with this situation without panic with all citizens' cooperation with authorities and it was managed. So it seemed that we need trust and we need knowledge and we need cooperation in order to go on in this area and also cooperation between private and public spheres because providers, very often they are private providers like this company which we provided us with technology and at the same time they have to then follow all the needs and rules which are set for citizens. And really that is a situation, an idea of the whole development within the single market. That we need clear rules which are the same for everybody rules of privacy, rules of data protection, rules of contracting copyright and all that. So that all this vast area could work together that people will know if they go from Ireland to Spain or from Spain to Estonia that really their smart phones and computers and all the information they are giving and receiving is really tackling the same, according to the same general rules, general grammar. And it creates balance and trust. So that was a general aim of all the same. And yes in European Parliament I was working also in the final GDPR because when I was elected it already was passed but we started to prepare a trial so I was in this team preparing GDPR trial and also I was in trial as a shadow manager. And the same team was working on new privacy. That is very important, we had this whole discussion before because ePrivate's regulation really is continuation of GDPR. It is lexpecialist, meaning that some provisions which are really they covering the area which in GDPR it just may be mentioned but not tackled with the same say dips or same detail. And there ePrivate is certainly taking over setting really the clear rules but at the same time it is inside the frame creating the GDPR, it's on outside the frame and there is a lot of reference in the GDPR and a lot of presumption that GDPR is implemented. And I have to say to everybody here also from a good feel like we have heard hundreds and hundreds of times at all why we need the privacy so we think that the GDPR is so nice we now want GDPR to be implemented in that way that when we were talking about GDPR what we heard why we need the GDPR it's so complicated we have other rules we don't know why we need the GDPR we kind of implemented it. Now it seems that it's not possible and we have to go further. Now what is really the reason why we need ePrivate not only GDPR I suppose it's clear for you dealing with this matter but I just will repeat. It is really a different scope because if we speak about personal data in terms of GDPR we speak about structural data we speak about communication confidence then we can communicate about everything about whether about, I don't know some technologies, about extra philosophical ideas, anything but if we talk with people we know, with group we define but just publishing it to somebody then it is considered to be private conversation, private communication and it needs protection as much in total not just pieces of content which are personal the same concerns if you are using cloud service I remember when we were working on a digital conference and then there was a meeting concerning what we mean by content there and how we need to protect there then he went from people who were very knowledgeable professionals oh in cloud, if you have photos there and they are face harsh photos then they are nothing personal you know namely ePrivate is covering everything what you have produced put it in cloud send it to your friend or to group as private and confidential not dependent on the semantics and so on and that's a very big difference that's a very big difference and when now we look at the old experiences we have already in this world of social media which we didn't exist when this directive which is now working in ePrivate it didn't exist this time all these things messenger didn't exist Skype didn't exist now ePrivate is covering all those new ways to spread information to share information between people as it means that it has novelties which are not really covered in the current kind of situation now there is a really kind of fear that this new integration it will in some way like lock technological developments because all we had full freedom to use your photos to use your content everything to make the profiles and we have photos also in my countries very nice advertising oh our firm is processing internet and we banks and we provide all providers with very clear profiles of all your clients individually including their sexual inclination and all their other things why not it's the last time to pass a privacy regulation to protect citizens from this kind of processes you see in ePrivate the situation where technologies pass through with new with new opportunities to process anything because really datafication is becoming total we need the data economy we need data used for good we need data for private profit public service and so on but at the same time we have very very bitter experiences in Europe in countries like ours we were under so we control commercial leadership in countries which have been under German occupation say in war time when there was total usage processing of personal data and collecting personal data you know when Sylvia slashed Estonia and I was working I was minister of social affairs and I was working in the same cabinet where the previous minister was working away the wall and we reloaded this cover we found hundreds of microphones, small box which were catching everything that was talking you know so people in Europe have very very bitter experience about situation was personal data personal communications were not protected but in opposite they were used to really have control over people now we can say oh we are not a democratic society absolutely a democratic society what Russia is doing using democratic societies information to influence really processes using very fine technologies to process personal data and that means that we have to be prepared that not only for good for profit but also for bad also for control over consumers control over voters could we use this data we just leave behind us and even not knowing that they are data and that was behind our work and our team our work team which was working on ePrimacy was very much say I was a devoted to this matter there were people from different countries of Europe who had different experiences but we were there with the same say very general the big model that we want that Europeans will be protected online there goes the chapter of the private content protected online in same way like we want in democratic society in European culture our private life be protected offline that is very simple but it is very complicated when you have to translate it all in language which is really the say adaptable to this new technological specification and sure we did with our best best knowledge we were listening to hundreds and hundreds of voices from industries we had people from industry coming every day we had listening from hundreds and hundreds of voices from consumer protection organizations from universities from health services so we were very very good we were very good we put in as much as we could not to go into controversy with our main principles we tried to be more flexible than it was in commission stuff I have to say that we received commission but we found that there was something we could not as say flexible we wanted to say we hope that we we managed to make things a bit better concerning for example things with browsers and some others and certainly also inside this group we have different levels of understanding how strict this regulation should be and as you know the vote in town that was in October and the vote was passed in January but was not say very big march alone because up to the end we had even last last evening before the vote we still had some debates we hope to have some compromises we hope to have some compromises but that's life that's life in legislation you can pass what you can pass you can pass where you have majority you can make compromises still when you keep majority if you make compromise where nobody will be supporting then you will not have the party and here we are now the town that have made decisions so all we discuss now cannot influence this text already approved by parliament commission have a proposal now there is a council and in council every country has own representative that means that all what could be changed now could be changed only in trial by council the trial of rule is all those articles will be open for debate which will be open by council so commission or parliament will not go back and say no we want to re-draw something only council and that means that each country now has to say where are the concerns and then on trial the council the presidency has to represent council and then there will be commission and parliament on the table council on the table and through the trial of all these articles will be already put on the table where council was saying here we don't disagree so that's a knowledge but that means that this kind of meeting maybe could help because I suppose the Irish voice is very important voice in all these matters like voice of any other Thank you