Manuduksjon – Privacy and Data Protection

The lecture will cover the key concepts and issues in Privacy and Data Protection with an academic approach supported by practical examples. The lecture will hopefully provide students with new perspectives and prepare them for their final exam.

Data use is becoming more and more varied as new technologies constantly emerge. It is therefore important that students and legal professionals focus on the challenging yet exciting questions raised by the use and protection of personal data.

The lecture will, among others, focus on the following topics:

• Key actors: controllers, processors, data subjects, authorities
• Legal basis and principles of processing
• Data transfers (incl. key recent developments)
• Automated decision-making
• Data protection by design and by default
• Data breach

The lecture will be presented by Gry Hvidsten and Wegard Kyoo Bergli from Wikborg Rein.

Gry Hvidsten is a Partner at Wikborg Rein's Oslo Office and a leading lawyer within data protection and digitalisation. She is the deputy head of the Technology and Digitalisation team and Head of the firm's Data Protection practice. Gry has 20 years of experience working as a data protection specialist in the Legislation Department in the Ministry of Justice, in Norway’s largest company Equinor and as a long-standing business lawyer.

Wegard Kyoo Bergli is a Senior Associate at Wikborg Rein’s Oslo office. His practice includes IT/technology and data protection. Wegard's practice related to data protection includes transfers of personal data to countries outside the EU/EEA, use of customer data for purposes related to marketing and analytics and use of cookies. He also has experience as an external examiner for master theses and courses in privacy and data protection from universities.

Both Gry and Wegard have presented several lectures regarding Privacy and Data Protection.

We hope to see you, and we wish you all a warm welcome!