Dear Leanne, David and Gabor,
As you may have been aware, at VUB we went through some internal changes concerning work and resource distribution for the STARII project. The outcome of these changes is that our team now consists of three of us – Alessandra and Carlotta have recently joined the project and will work on it within different capacities till its end.
On the same note, I want to provide updates on the handbook for SMEs, the guidance for DPAs, the website, the event in Brussels and the panel at CPDP.
1. Handbook: we took into consideration your comments provided to us in January and we’ll share our draft on 17 February. We will kindly ask you to provide your feedback by 21 of February.
2. Guidance: Thanks for NAIH team for sharing the revised version of the document. We appreciate the changes you’ve implemented. We’ll share more detailed feedback by 14 February.
3. Website: TRI kindly offered to help us with this task, as we have been having difficulties to live up to our promises made in the DOW. We’ve been negotiating a service contract for a website (in fact a separate website from STAR I) for nearly two months (the parties to the contract did not agreed to use each other standard templates) and VUB legal service team should enter into agreement this week. Provided how complicated this process was for a rather simple service and that’ve had discussions on the outline and features of the website, I would prefer to continue pursuing this path. We, however, agree that having a LinkedIn page would provide an alternative route to disseminate our work.
4. Workshop in Brussels: after consulting Gabor, we decided to host the workshop (merging two tasks) on the 22 of April. It is the second day of the monthly EDPB plenary meeting. We’ll share a draft agenda with you before the end of this week, so you can comment and make suggestions for speakers/ timing/ etc. We hope that this date works well for you and that you will be able to contribute to the event.
5. CPDP panel that was organised in cooperation with the SMOOTH project was successful and received some positive feedback, you can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-s1iUoAM-Q. As Renata shared an updated data concerning the hotline in the afternoon before the event and the panel took place on Wed at 8:45, the slide with this info was not updated. Many thanks TRI for their contribution!
Best regards,
Lina
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Subject: Re: STAR II - Update on EDPB and validation workshop?
Hi Gabor,
Thanks for this information and thanks to Renata for the updated guidance.
Best wishes,
Leanne
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Subject: RE: STAR II - Update on EDPB and validation workshop?
Hi Leanne,
Thanks for the update on the newsletter.
Regarding the upcoming events:
- The plan is to present the drafts of the guidance and the handbook at the EDPB plenary in February. However, as this is scheduled for 18-19 February, we can only do this, if the drafts are ready by then. Renáta will circulate the updated version of the guidance soon. As for the other document (handbook), Lina can provide further information.
- I have no further information on the validation workshop planned for March-April 2020.
Best,
Gábor
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Subject: STAR II - Update on EDPB and validation workshop?
Hi Gabor,
I hope you are keeping well.
Our dissemination team is preparing to send out the STAR II newsletter we mentioned on our previous calls. It will be sent out this Thursday with links to the approved deliverables and some blogs. We are also including a section on upcoming events and I wanted to check with NAIH if we had any further information on the following two events:
* A presentation by NAIH to the EDPB on the STAR II project planned for the February EDPB plenary (18th-19th) in Brussels.
* A Validation workshop for the STAR II outputs, namely a 'A Risk Focused Handbook for SMEs' and a 'Guidance for DPAs' planned for March-April 2020 in Brussels.
Can I just check this information is still current and there is nothing more specific we can add at this stage?
I would be grateful if you can cc all in the reply as I am off tomorrow and the dissemination team are in need of the confirmation.
Thanks and best wishes,
Leanne
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Dear Leanne,
Following up on the discussions last autumn, I prepared yet another draft of an article foreseen in task 5.2. It’s also saved on the shared folder with additional materials.
While I tried to keep it focused, I think some important issues remain untouched, such as that there’s a lot of guidance available by DPAs though it is not always clear how to find the relevant one; national guidance documents usually build on the EDPB opinions or the EC, so guidance on EU level for SMEs should be encouraged. Now we suggested that such guidance should be primarily developed at national level. Throughout the contribution we mostly assume that there are distinctive needs of SMEs but we never elaborate on them. Do you think we need to further elaborate on such needs? Perhaps, SME association expectations from DPAs should be also more nuanced?
@Kulitsán Gábor<mailto:kulitsan.gabor@naih.hu> & @Nagy Renáta<mailto:nagy.renata@naih.hu> perhaps you could provide some comments on this contribution?
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Hi Gabor,
Thank you for sending around the draft of the best practice DPA guidance. We have the following comments/thoughts
* The audience for the deliverable will be your fellow DPAS.
* Its audience already has a high level of background contextual knowledge, so we can jump straight in to the best practices - so we can probably cut some of this content down.
* Perhaps the aim of this deliverable should be to 1) introduce best practices in awareness raising that they might not be aware of and 2) provide some evidence base for what has been found to be effective.
* I would suggest keeping the report as brief and accessible as possible.
* We don't want to duplicate the report on the interviews (d2.1) and the report on the hotline (d3.2).
* Perhaps we can identify 5-10 best practices for awareness raising for SMES
* Description of the practice
* Followed by why we think its "best"/"good" practice.
* This could include conventional/standard/must have practices - such as a hotline of some description - then then more cutting-edge/innovative/experimental practices - where we don't have as much evidence for success, but they're new for an audience.
* E.g. Ireland's conference with DPOs from large corporations advising SMEs.
* We should be talking about best practices we can be confident of recommending. The readers will want to know why we are confident about our recommendations, or what our rationale for recommending them is (examples will likely be - its had positive feedback from interviews, we found out about it during our information gathering, it worked during the trial of the hotline.... )
* Include other best practices we are aware of, not just activities from STAR II (hotline and awareness raising campaign).
* One (or more) of the best practices should relate to the hotline (setting up, management)
* A potential example is the PHAEDRA II project final recommendations report - http://www.phaedra-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/PHAEDRA2_D41_final_2017011… (particularly, the early single page with all the best practices together, then short sections setting out the substance of the best practice, and our justification for supporting it).
* We have some specific feedback, notes and suggestions to this effect on the attached word document.
Best wishes,
DBW
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Dear All,
please, find enclosed the remaining Deliverables.
Best,
Renáta
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Subject: RE: STAR - input for dissemination report
hi all,
please find attached the draft of D5.1 star communication tools
current status:
* D1.5 minutes - draft written, waiting for review and submission
* D1.6 wrap-up minutes - draft written, waiting for review and
submission
* D4.2 finalised materials - draft written, waiting for review and
submission
* D4.3 feedback forms - waiting
* D5.1 comm channels - draft written, waiting for review and
submission
* D5.2 journal article - draft written, waiting for review and
submission
* D5.3 press releases - waiting for the 3rd one to be published,
submitting after
* D5.4 trade press articles - waiting for a hungarian article to be
written, submitting after
* D5.5 dissemination report - waiting
* D5.6 webinars - waiting
* summary of the project - to be written
best
istván
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Subject: STAR - input for dissemination report
Hi Gabor, Renata,
Please find attached the contributions to the dissemination report we
discussed today:
* information on the ICO event TRI exhibited the STAR materials at.
* the version of the GDPR flyer (based on STAR material) that we
distributed at the event (Renata, you'll recognise it from the STAR II
workshop, but it was originally made for this event).
Best wishes,
DBW
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Dear Colleague,
Thank you for registering to the Support training activities on the data protection reform (STAR) - Final conference, held at 17 October 2019 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (link<https://brusselsprivacyhub.eu/events/17102019.html>).
During the event we introduced the EU co-funded project, STAR (Support Training Activities on the data protection Reform) and its final outcomes:
* 11 training topics focusing on the GDPR,
* seminar materials (i.e. Microsoft PowerPoint presentations) for each one of the topics with detailed guidance for trainers and suggested reading materials,
* training scenarios,
* a takeaway reference GDPR checklist,
* a ten-point GDPR introductory list,
* an evaluation questionnaire for attendees.
During the event attendees were also provided with the STAR handbook for supporting training activities in the data protection reform, which aims to aid the trainers in using the STAR materials. Please find the handbook attached.
Both the training materials and the handbook are freely and publicly available in a digital form at the project’s website: http://www.project-star.eu/training-materials.
To further increase the quality of the materials and to develop a supporting handbook for trainers we encourage you to use them during your training activities.
Furthermore, we would like to ask you to share your impressions and opinion by filling this short questionnaire: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/2R2P3Y3
Thank you for helping us develop and ameliorate the STAR training materials.
Best regards,
István Böröcz – on behalf of the STAR consortium
Hi all,
What do we make of the Journal of Data Protection & Privacy? (https://www.henrystewartpublications.com/jdpp) – we’ve been approached by the editor for an article.
We currently have a STAR II paper submitted to Computer, Law and Security Review, but as yet, haven’t heard anything about it.
We could either pursue an additional publication thought this route, or even potentially pull the paper from CLSR and submit here.
I wouldn’t normally consider this, but this might progress us along the timeframe a lot quicker.
Any thoughts?
DBW
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Subject: Interest in getting an article about the STAR research project for the Journal of Data Protection & Privacy
Dear David
I hope you’re well.
I’m the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Data Protection & Privacy, published globally by Henry Stewart Publications.
I’m interested to get an article from you on the research project (STAR) that would be of great interest to our readers (we have in excess of 2700 on the LinkedIn Group). It would also be useful to know what future plans exist for STAR and whether this is a move towards a European-standard training approach on data protection, privacy and security and how this compares with the IAPP? Articles tend to be up to 6,000 words plus tables/graphs/charts.
I’m attaching a previous edition of the JDPP (for background).
Let me know if this is something of interest. Deadline would be end of November for inclusion in the December’s edition of JDPP 3.2
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Ardi
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Dear all,
Would you be available for a telco this week (Thursday or Friday preferably)? To discuss the two agenda of the upcoming final events.
best
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Hi all,
Privacy Law and Business have agreed to publish an article based on STAR. This will fulfil our requirement to write a trade press article during the project.
I've drafted the attached. Would you be able to give it a quick review? Anything you think I'm missing?
The deadline for submission is the 30th of September, which I think will get it out before out two launch events. So can I have your suggested edits by Friday please?
Best wishes,
DBW
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Dear Colleagues,
With this email we would like to cordially invite you to the final events of the EU co-funded project, STAR (Support Training Activities on the data protection Reform), to be held on:
* Wednesday, 17 October 2019 Brussels, Belgium 12:30-14:00, U-residence, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1050 Brussels
* this event is dedicated specifically to Data Protection Officers
* please see the details of the event here: https://brusselsprivacyhub.eu/events/17102019.html
* Tuesday, 22 October 2019 Tirana, Albania 16:30-18:00, Side Event of the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners
* this event is dedicated specifically to representatives of Data Protection Authorities
* please see the details of the event here: https://privacyconference2019.info/conference/side-events/
These events will introduce and discuss the final results of the STAR project (co-funded by the European Union (EU) under its Rights, Equality and Citizenship programme (2014-2020)) which supports training activities of EU Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) and Data Protection Officers (DPOs) on the EU data protection reform, and especially on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The panel will identify the challenges and best practices around data protection training. The panels will then launch the ready-made, easy-to-customise and easy-to-run training materials, (i.e. 11 Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, training scenarios, further supporting forms as well as a handbook for trainers and users of the materials) targeted for DPAs and DPOs and which are freely and publicly available in a digital form at the project’s website: http://www.project-star.eu/training-materials. During the event speakers will guide the audience through the STAR materials and, in form of a discussion, gather their feedback and experience from training activities thereafter.
Looking forward to meeting you in Brussels and in Tirana.
Kind regards,
István Böröcz – on behalf of the STAR consortium
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Date: Thursday, 8 August 2019 at 08:45
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Dear Colleague,
We are pleased to be able to confirm now that your proposed side event has been confirmed as an official 41st ICDPPC side event. A summary of your proposed side event (as will be published in due course on our website at: https://privacyconference2019.info/conference/side-events/) is reflected below:
Research Group on Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Support training activities on the data protection reform (STAR)
This event will introduce and discuss the final results of the STAR project (co-funded by the European Union (EU) under its Rights, Equality and Citizenship programme (2014-2020)) which supports training activities of EU Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) and Data Protection Officers (DPOs) on the EU data protection reform, and especially on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The panel will identify the challenges and best practices around data protection training. The panel will then launch the ready-made, easy-to-customise and easy-to-run training materials, (i.e. 11 Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, training scenarios, further supporting forms as well as a handbook for trainers and users of the materials) targeted for DPAs and DPOs and which are freely and publicly available in a digital form at the project’s website: http://www.project-star.eu/training-materials. During the event speakers will guide the audience through the STAR materials and, in form of a discussion, gather their feedback and experience from training activities thereafter.
Tuesday 22 October 2019
16.30 – 18.00
Venue TBD
No registration required
Speakers:
* Paul De Hert, Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
* István Böröcz, Researcher, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
* David Barnard-Wills, research manager, Trilateral Research Ltd. (TRI)
* Júlia Sziklay, Head of Department, Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (NAIH)
* Gábor Kulitsán, freedom of information expert, Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (NAIH)
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