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!
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…
My new article has been published in Computer Law & Security Review, November 2019 Abstract The NIS Directive is the first horizontal legislation undertaken at EU level for the protection of network and information systems across the Union. During the last decades e-services, new technologies, information systems and networks have become embedded in our daily…
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…
Στο Technology and Regulation Journal δημοσιεύθηκε το άρθρο, στο οποίο μαζί με τον Paul de Hert εντοπίζουμε τρία φαινόμενα στην πρόσφατη νομοθέτηση των νέων ψηφιακών τεχνολογιών σε Ευρωπαϊκό επίπεδο: act-ification, GDPR mimesis και EU law brutality. Το άρθρο αναλύει ακόμα περισσότερο τρία παλαιότερα blog post μας (καθένα τους με αντίστοιχο περιεχόμενο, στο European Law Blog…
This is the fifth webinar in the new Enforcing Europe – Webinar Series 1. The Webinar Series is co-organised with the University of Luxembourg within the framework of the joint research project MATIS (co-funded by FWO and FNR). The Webinar Series is in media partnership with Privacy Laws & Business. This event is co-organised with the Cyber & Data Security…
Στη χθεσινή ενημερωτική ημερίδα της Αρχής Προστασίας Δεδομένων για την 18η παγκόσμια Ημέρα Προστασίας Δεδομένων, όπου με ιδιαίτερη χαρά, και τιμή, μίλησα όχι μόνο για τη Σύμβαση 108 του Συμβουλίου της Ευρώπης (…”δική του” η Ημέρα, άλλωστε…), αλλά και για την προσφορά (και σε αυτήν!) του καθηγητή Σπύρου Σημίτη, στον οποίο ήταν εν μέρει αφιερωμένη…