MLS: focus on athlete privacy and wearables
From smart watches to wearable health monitors in sport, personal tracking and data collection devices pervade the life of a modern athlete. But the saturation of monitoring devices raises questions about how such data is stored, accessed and disclosed. In this joint MLS-Australian Athletes Alliance workshop, leading researchers will explore the current regulatory landscape: how does the Privacy Act work in relation to wearables, what other legislation might be relevant when considering wearables, and what reforms are on the horizon?
Presenters:
Professor Jack Anderson
Jack Anderson is Professor and Director of Sports Law Studies at the University of Melbourne. Jack has published widely on the topics of sports law. A Chartered Arbitrator and accredited mediator, Jack was appointed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport from 2016 to 2019 and was the sole CAS arbitrator at the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in 2018. He is a member of World Athletics’ Disciplinary Tribunal, the integrity unit of the International Hockey Federation and the International Tennis Federation’s Ethics Commission, the disciplinary tribunal of the Football Federation of Victoria and a member of Basketball Australia’s national integrity advisory committee.
Professor Megan Richardson
Megan Richardson is a Professor of Law at the Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne. Her fields of research and publication include intellectual property, privacy and personality rights, law reform and legal theory. She was one of a group of scholars convened by the Australian Law Reform Commission to explore the meaning of 'privacy' for its 2006-8 privacy reference, and in addition served on the international advisory panel for the New South Wales Law Reform Commission's invasion of privacy review in 2006-2009. She was also a member of the advisory committee for the Australian Law Reform Commission's reference on Serious Invasions of Privacy in the Digital Era (report published 2014).
Professor Stacey Steele
Stacey Steele is an academic and practicing lawyer specializing in financial services, privacy and data protection. Stacey is A/Professor at Melbourne Law School and A/Director (Japan) at the Asian Law Centre, University of Melbourne. Stacey joined the Centre in 1997 as a research associate and was appointed A/Director (Japan) in January 2002. Stacey is fluent in Japanese. Stacey is also Deputy Chief Privacy Officer and Associate General Counsel at a US multi-national company with over 20,000 employees and 30 locations.
Associate Professor Mark J Taylor
Mark’s research interests include the regulation of personal information with particular emphasis upon health data governance. Mark seeks to progress an understanding of how data governance might reconcile individual and community(privacy) interests with a broader (public) interest in access, use and management of personal health information. Immediate past Chair of the Confidentiality Advisory Group (England and Wales), Mark has served as policy advisor to the Health Research Authority (England) and as a member of the drafting group for the OECD Recommendation on Health Data Governance. He is currently a member of the Ethics Advisory Group for Genomics England and an advisor to the Data Protection (GDPR) and International Health Data Sharing Forum (GA4GH).