VII International Conference on Personal Data Protection

Sergey Medvedev, PhD, LLM, Senior Lawyer and Ilya Goryachev, Senior Lawyer (both of Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow), attended the 7th International Conference “Personal Data Protection” held by Radiochastotny Spectr company supported by Roscomnadzor (Russian IT Regulator) at the Renaissance Moscow Monarch Centre Hotel. At the Conference the latest global trends in the field of information technologies (IT) were discussed, also the attendees shared their experience in the personal data protection field, elaborated various personal data and confidentiality protection measures for the purposes of improvement of the ways of interaction of the respective state bodies with the business (data controllers). Specifically, they discussed the regulatory aspects of the European legislation reform in the personal data protection field, issues of large user and open data collecting, use and protection, protection of the rights of subjects of personal data issues (kids in particular), professional codes of conduct in the personal data field, some issues of ensuring the security of personal data processing, as well as the cloud storage problems of data protection and other aspects. The Conference gathered representatives of the Russian state bodies and foreign authorized bodies in charge of protection and enforcement of the rights of data subjects, different Russian and international business structures and lawyers dealing with IT and data protection.