Last week, I had the honor of participating in the WOW – Workshop on Ongoing Work at Faculdade de Direito, where I spoke about the regulation of digital technologies in the EU.
A big thank you to the organizers and everyone who attended for the insightful discussion!
LinkedIn article, published on 30 September 2018 Article 1 of the GDPR rarely attracts much attention: At best, it is viewed as a repetition of the GDPR title; At worst, as a functional article, a necessary introduction to the GDPR – and to the much juicier articles that follow, on material scope and territoriality….
Δημοσιεύθηκε στο emea.gr, 14.05.2020 Χωράει ένα απλό “ναι” ή ένα απλό “όχι” σε μια τέτοια ερώτηση; Το θέμα με την τοποθέτηση ή όχι καμερών στις τάξεις δίχασε για μια ακόμα φορά την ελληνική κοινωνία: Σχεδόν το σύνολο των Αριστερών πολιτών τάχθηκε κατά, και σχεδόν το σύνολο των Δεξιών πολιτών στάθηκε υπέρ. Χωρίς διακρίσεις, χωρίς διευκρινίσεις,…
Roundtable by the Brussels Privacy Hub on “The GDPR in third countries: the modernisation of Convention 108“. The coming into effect of the GDPR is by now not solely an EU but rather a global phenomenon. Additional opportunities are provided by the adoption of the modernised version of Convention 108, which is open for accession…
Appointed a member of the law-making committee drafting the GDPR (and the Police and Criminal Justice Data Protection Directive) implementation law in Greece. The law-making committee, established under the Greek Ministry of Justice, has been in session since 2016 but has not been able to produce a final legislative act yet, although public consultation has…
Our new paper with Paul de Hert, Gianclaudio Malgieri, Laurent Beslay and Ignacio Sanchez on “The Right to Data Portability in the GDPR: Towards user-centric Interoperability of Digital Services” to be published in the Computer Law & Security Review, has been pre-published online. Our paper is open access, thanks to a generous grant by…
Vagelis Papakonstantinou within the Brussels Privacy Hub, the Cyber and Data Security Lab, co-hosted an “EU-China Symposium on Data Security and Personal Data Protection”. It was held on 29th November 2019, and was a full-day, by-invitation only event. The symposium aimed at providing researchers, entrepreneurs and government officials from Europe and China a unique opportunity…