UM鈥檚 Deputy Dean of its Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences and Head of its Department of 福利在线免费 Policy and Governance, Prof. Joe Cannataci, has just been awarded the Amnesty International Chair 2024 in recognition of his role in advocating for privacy protection.
This honour was bestowed upon Prof. Cannataci by Ghent University, after an international acknowledgement of his outstanding contributions to global privacy rights.
In this respect, he will be sharing his insights on the complexity of privacy as a universal right by delivering a public lecture on Tuesday 26 March at 20:00 at the Gent Arts Center VIERNULVULIE, about the significance of privacy in an increasingly digitised world.
Prof. Canntaci previously served as the UN鈥檚 Special Rapporteur on Privacy between 2015 to 2021.
He also is the current Co-Director of the STeP Research Group at the University of Groningen, another role which has helped him amass extensive expertise in law and policy.
He is a Senior Fellow at the CNAM Security-Defense-Intelligence Department in Paris and affiliated with the Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies at the University of Oxford.
Registrations for the public lecture are to be made via this .
