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!
GDPR Workshop Series: The ePrivacy Regulation: where are we at? This workshop will aim to discuss new development and key contentious issues of the draft ePrivacy Regulation currently in the law-making process. This workshop is expected to build on findings and feedback of the Hub’s similar workshop on 27 October 2016, “What is to be done…
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…
Proud to have contributed to this impressive volume the entry on the Right to be Forgotten, together with Paul de Hert. Kείμενό μου (μαζί με τον Paul de Hert) σε αυτή την, εντυπωσιακή, Συλλογή-Εγκυκλοπαίδεια, για το, διαρκώς επίκαιρο, “Δικαίωμα στη Λήθη – Right to be Forgotten”. More Information: The Elgar Encyclopedia of Law and Data…
Eξαιρετικά ευτυχής και υπερήφανος (και ανακουφισμένος – μας πήρε 5+ χρόνια!) που σήμερα εκδόθηκε επιτέλους η κατ’ άρθρον ερμηνεία μας του Γενικού Κανονισμού για την Προστασία Δεδομένων (GDPR, στα ελληνικά…). Στην ουσία, στο βιβλίο μεταφέρουμε την εμπειρία του γερμανικού αντίστοιχου του Σπύρου Σημίτη (ο οποίος απεβίωσε τον Μάρτιο, επομένως το βιβλίο αποτελεί φόρο τιμής σε…
Published in European Law Blog, 1.04.2021 By Vagelis Papakonstantinou and Paul De Hert, 1. GDPR mimesis as the only regulatory method? EU regulatory work on technology-related fronts has recently spiked. The EU has been extremely busy implementing its European Digital Strategy. Over a short period it has released a draft Digital Governance Act (DGA), a Digital Services Act…
Article 4 of the GDPR contains its definitions. This is in line both with its predecessor, the EU 1995 Data Protection Directive, and general EU law-making: Customarily, in all EU technical legislation a set of definitions comes before the actual legal provisions. This is basic law-writing technique also met in complex contracts: Definitions come first so…