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!
CANVAS EU project workshop: Value-driven Cybersecurity: Which Security? Whose Values? The CANVAS Consortium – Constructing an Alliance for Value-driven Cybersecurity – during the three-year period actively contributed and shaped discussions on ways to attain value-driven cybersecurity regulation in the EU. Numerous deliverables were prepared, and a rich variety of dissemination events were held to…
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…
LinkedIn article, published on 21 Oct 2018 The household exemption dominates Article 2 of the GDPR, the automated/non-automated distinction being by now outdated: The GDPR does not apply whenever processing of personal data is done “by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity”. In the age of digital…
Στη Βαρσοβία, Πανεπιστήμιο Kozminski, όπου παρουσίασα το βιβλίο μας για τα φαινόμενα act-ification, GDPR mimesis και EU law brutality . Το καλό είναι ότι τα φαινόμενα που εντοπίσαμε παραμένουν σε ισχύ: για παράδειγμα η Cyber Resilience Act, που μόλις οριστικοποιήθηκε, ενώ στο στάδιο της προετοιμασίας της δεν είχε act-ified τίτλο, τώρα έχει! Τα παραπάνω 3…
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…
Published on LinkedIn, 7 February 2019. *** This is part of the GDPR ethics series; A broad mission statement may be found in its opening text. *** Same as with Article 5, an article-by-article analysis of the GDPR from an ethics point of view need not go further than the first sentence when it comes to its Article…