Helma de Boer
Helma is a privacy and security professional, currently working as information security officer with SURF, the ICT cooperation for education and research. Early in her career, she worked as a legal assistant. She taught herself programming in the 1990s and built many websites and databases for SMEs. She worked with Arjen Kamphuis on the book Personal information security for the Dutch Broodfonds and she maintains the website beschermjegegevens.nl. She is certified DPO, Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT) and CISM.
Sessions
The EU wants to address digital CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material). Their ideas of getting rid of it direct us into a minefield of problems, as the current plans would lead to an unparalleled surveillance of 450 million EU citizens, while it is not clear what it can bring.
It is a topic that seems to contrast the protection of privacy versus the protection of children. But is that really the case? And are there other solutions?