Na quarta-feira, dia 15 de março de 2023, às 10 horas, o Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Computação do IME-USP promove a aula magna ministrada pelo Prof. Dr. Afonso Ferreira, do Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – CNRS do Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, na França.
A aula acontece no Auditório Jacy Monteiro e contará com transmissão ao vivo no canal do IME no YouTube.
A aula é aberta e gratuita e não há necessidade de inscrição.
Link da transmissão: https://youtube.com/live/aReTOca4WRI?feature=share
Veja, em inglês, as informações sobre a aula e a carreira do Prof. Ferreira:
Let’s talk about Digital Security:
How your protection impacts our research
Afonso Ferreira
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – CNRS
Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse France
Max, a friend of mine, is a software researcher. Four years ago, in 2018, he became very upset. The reason was a new four-letter word that came to haunt him: GDPR – the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, which was published in 2016 and started to be applied in May 2018.
The GDPR was probably the first European legislation to have so big an impact on the software industry, and hence on my friend Max’s research and funding. He was distressed because the many rules imposed by the GDPR implied that large chunks of his clever programmes had to be rewritten; that his systems running at partner organizations had to be redesigned; that the several data-bases they used had to be put under the oversight of several different people – under contractual obligations to do so –; that this whole set had to be more strictly protected; and that new compliance departments had to be created, transferring a large part of his partners’ research budgets to the hiring of yet more lawyers.
This example shows a real necessity facing us, researchers in Computer Science, since 2018: to be aware of upcoming EU legislation in the area of digital technologies, so that when they are promulgated the software that are in ideation/design/development/test/etc are fully compliant and will not need new research effort to become so. Had Max been aware of GDPR when it was proposed in 2011, all his work would have taken the GDPR-to-be into consideration from the onset, and he would not have been so unsettled when the regulation finally entered into application.
In this multidisciplinary talk we’ll show that there is much more to the EU digital security legislation landscape than the sole GDPR, and how our research is consequently heavily impacted. This talk will be of interest to researchers in many areas, including (not exclusively) Computer Sciences, Engineering, Social Sciences, and Digital Law.
This work was supported by the European research projects H2020 LeADS (GA 956562) and Horizon Europe DUCA (GA 101086308).
About the speaker:
About the author: Afonso Ferreira, PhD, is Head of European Digital Matters and senior researcher at the French CNRS, a research institution that is home to more than 20 Nobel prizes. He is leading his lab in two European projects at the nexus of digital technologies, policy and regulation, and foresight, focussing in the areas of Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence.
Afonso worked 12 years in European Institutions, including the European Commission, and in 2021 he advised the CNRS in the elaboration of its European strategy, guiding its 30.000 staff to consolidate its position as the largest recipient of H2020 funds.
He is also Head of Consulting at Digital Skippers Europe, where he shares his strategic thinking and strong experience in the Digital Revolution and geopolitics to help private and public actors to navigate the intricate European digital technologies policy-scape. Digital Skippers Europe clients include Asian, Middle-Eastern, and South-American companies, national Research & Innovation Agencies, and the European Commission. Afonso has published more than 150 papers at the forefront of scientific research.