On May 23, 2019, EPLN, the University of Paris 1 – Pantheon Sorbonne, ISJP Research Unit, and the association La Quadrature du Net organised the conference “Prison and new technologies : what protection of fundamental
rights?”
The conference aimed at discussing the integration of prisons into the digital world, from the perspective of strengthening access to legal information, legal aid and access to effective remedy, but also from the perspective of the risks it entails for the right to privacy and data protection and the potential impact of automated data processing on disciplinary
procedures or sentences adjustment.
The conference benefited from the special contribution of Christiaan van Veen, Special Advisor on new technologies and human rights to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights and brought into dialogue 40 social scientists, legal scholars, lawyers, medical doctors, civil society actors and national policy makers from France, Ukraine,
Poland, the UK, Spain, Italy, Russia, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany.
The conferemce was organised in partnership with : University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Institut des sciences juridique et philosophique de la Sorbonne (ISJPS – UMR 8103), European Prison Litigation Network, CNRS/ CESDIP, , University of Utrecht, Netherlands, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Poland, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Dortmund, Germany, University of Florence, Italy, Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, University of Ghent, Belgium, General Council of the Spanish Bars, University of Comillas, Spain, Prisoners’ Advice Service, UK, La Quadrature du Net, France, Public Verdict Foundation, Russie, Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, Ukraine.
In collaboration with students from the Ecole Supérieure d’Interprétariat et de Traduction.
The project benefited from the support of Mairie de Paris, programme Label Paris Europe 2018
