Chair Values and Policies of Personal Information

The Values and Policies of Personal Information research Chair of the Mines-Télécom Institute provides a new content format: the executive summary.

This first issue summarises the arguments developed by Claire Levallois-Barth in her article "For the recognition of a right to multiple digital identities".

This 18-page article was published in December 2020 in a book published by Editions Larcier following the Study Day of the Institute of Private Law, University of Toulouse Capitale (France): "L'identité numérique : quelle définition pour quelle protection"(Digital identity: what definition for what protection?) of 12 December 2019.

> Download the executive summary #1 (in English)

October 31, 2019 : study VPIP Chair - Médiamétrie : "Personal Data en trust: how have post-GDPR perceptions and uses evolved?"

The Values and Policies of Personal Information research Chair of the Mines-Télécom Institute, together with French audience measurement company Médiamétrie, has conducted a survey on the way French internet users manage their personal data. The survey, carried out in May 2019, aims to extend the one published in 2017.

A presentation of the study followed by a round table discussion took place at the 18^th Meeting of the Chair on October 31, 2019, Paris (in French).

> Download the summary (in English)

> Watch the video of the event (in French)

June 12, 2019 : International workshop on the Data Economy: Data Brokers and competition

This international workshop on data economics organized by the team of the Chair Values and Policies of Personal Information focused on data brokers' strategies and their impact on the markets. Issues related to data collection and competition were addressed.

With the contributions of Alexis Walckiers (Chief Economist of the Belgian competition authority), Patrick Waelbroeck (Télécom Paris), Heli Koski (ETLA), Télécom Paris, Paris (France).

> Program

The video of the meeting will be available for viewing on the Chair's Youtube channel shortly.

N°2 - March 2018 - Signs of trust: What impact can labels have on the management of our personal data?

In this report, the Chair Values and Policies of Personal Information tackles the issue of trust from 4 multidisciplinary perspectives: legal, technical, economical and philosophical. Trust, as the foundation of any society, underpins all institutional and commercial exchanges as well as the role these exchanges play in building a cohesive social body. Yet we are currently experiencing a crisis of trust most likely enabled by digital technologies, since the social ties preceding digital commercial exchanges are not old or strong enough and consumers are not always aware of the “quality” of digital goods, even after consumption.

What are different forms of trust, and how are they changing?

> Freely downloadable in english