Social Networking and Data Protection Issue

	Dr. Rebecca Wong (PhD on Data Protection Law in the Online Age , University of Sheffield) is A Senior Lecturer at the Nottingham Trent University. She assisted with a European Commission project, PRIVIREAL in connection with data protection and the implications on research ethics committees. She taught contract law, ICT and Law, English legal systems at the University of Sheffield prior to her appointment at Nottingham Trent University (2006). Her interests include data protection, electronic commerce and intellectual property. Her recent publications include “Privacy: charting its developments and prospects” in Human Rights in the Digital Age edited by Klang and Murray (2005) and “Data Protection: alternative approaches to sensitive data” (2007) Journal of International Commercial Law and Technology. She is Guest Editor of a special issue on Identity, privacy and new technologies in the International Journal of Intellectual Property Management.
	Eleni Kosta joined ICRI as a legal researcher in August 2005, where she conducts research in the field of privacy and identity management, specialising in the area of electronic communications and new technologies. Her current research projects include the European Project Privacy and Identity Management for Europe (PRIME) and the Network of Excellence Future of Identity in the Information Society (FIDIS). Eleni obtained her law degree at the University of Athens in 2002 (magna cum laude) and in 2004 she obtained at the same University a Masters degree in Public Law (summa cum laude). In the academic year 2004-2005 she attended the Postgraduate Study Programme in Legal Informatics (Rechtsinformatik) of the University of Hanover (EULISP) with a scholarship from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) and she obtained her LLM (magna cum laude). Eleni is preparing a PhD at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven on “Consent as a legitimate ground for data processing in electronic communications”, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jos Dumortier.