The end of Carnival and Fat Thursday turn our thoughts to fun and pleasures of the palate. It is natural that the thoughts of the Private Law of Data team turned to the best fun and delight of the past year, namely the completed Jagiellonian 2022 Online Seminar in Data Law, which we organized together with the Future Law Lab and the TBSP UJ's CyberLaw Academic Circle. Meetings with leading specialists in law and new technologies let the participants understand the opportunities and threats related to the economics and security of data processing in the modern economic context.

• Salome Viljoen of Michigan University began the the series with a closer look at how the right to privacy can be used by online platforms against the entities it is supposed to protect;
• a week later, Thomas Streinz (New York University) outlined the panorama of European data law, describing its history and challenges for the future;
• Eliza Mik from The Chinese University of Hong Kong tamed the issue of automatic contracting by emphasizing that the real problem for lawyers lies not in how they are concluded, but in how they can be interpreted by the addressee;
• The title of Julie Cohen’s (Georgetown University) paper - Doughnut Privacy - deserves a special Fat Thursday distinction. The author presented the concept of balanced regulation of the right to privacy, not falling into the extremes of excessive surveillance on the one hand and permitting uncontrolled data processing on the other;
• the first part of the series ended with a seminar led by Orla Lynskey (London School of Economics), who presented yet another position on how data protection law can be a tool in perpetuating the dominance of the largest digital platforms.
• the second part of the event opened with a speech by Catalina Goanta (Utrecht University), who presented hitherto unknown problems that arise from the mechanisms of an economy that commodifies identity, often thereby colliding with traditionally formed expectations of privacy of the of the individual;
• December opened with an analysis by Frederico Gallo (University of Bologna) devoted to how European Union law on unfair competition deals with the problem of new marketing methods using user data;
• beginning the final straight of the series, Francesca Episcopo of the University of Amsterdam critically analyzed the current understanding of the right to data protection under European law;
• at the last of the meetings, Raphaël Gellert (Radboud University) presented the impact that the development of AI will have on European data law.