On May 31st the Supreme Court of Ireland denied Facebook’s appeal to avoid referral of its recent case concerning the international transfer of personal data to the European Court of Justice. You most likely remember the case brought forth by privacy activist and lawyer Max Schrems which questions whether the methods used by technology companies, and ...
The Dutch DPA's policy rules for determining administrative fines Co-authored with ICTLC Senior Associate Caroline Poerbodipoero The Dutch Data Protection Authority (‘DPA’), ‘Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens’, has issued policy rules on the establishment of administrative fines for GDPR infringements (as well as for infringements of Dutch data protection law). The Dutch DPA categorized the different possible GDPR infringements, ranging from ...
Enterprises around the world are looking for ways to show their compliance to Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has developed a Code of Conduct designed to offer both a tool for GDPR compliance and transparency guidelines regarding the level of data protection offered by the Cloud Service Provider. The purpose ...
I think that today is a good day to ask the future Members of the European Parliament and American Presidential Candidates to think about a global dimension of data protection and to commit themselves to develop international legislative instruments that have the power to truly enable world-wide digital citizenship. Read my Letter addressed to the ...
In the Council's effort to deter cyber-attacks constituting an external threat to the EU or Member States, the EU can now impose targeted restrictive measures which include asset freezes on both persons and entities and a ban on people travelling to the EU. Such restricted measures are considered necessary in light of the Common Foreign ...
Last Friday I held my inaugural lecture as Professor of Privacy, Cybersecurity, and IT Contract Law at the Faculty of Law - European Centre for Privacy & Cybersecurity at Maastricht University. During my lecture I introduced the research activities that I would like to further develop at Maastricht University in a multidisciplinary setting that includes ...
The Ford Motor Company, General Motors, the Toyota Motor Corporation, and SAE International have recently announced the formation of the Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium (AVSC) whose aim is to advance the safe development, testing and deployment of automated vehicles. The AVSC, according to SAE, "will provide a safety framework around which autonomous technology can responsibly evolve in ...
On 19 April 2019, the Italian Data Protection Authority, or Garante Privacy, announced the approval of a new measure (Register of measures n. 96 of 18 April 2019) that is soon to be published in the Official Gazette, which establishes rules that govern voter data use on the part of political parties, movements, committees, candidates, ...
This blog series is based on a chapter for the forthcoming book entitled “Essentials of Blockchain Technology”. The chapter was written together with Martim Taborda Barata, LL.M., Senior Associate at ICT Legal Consulting International, and lawyer registered at the Portuguese Bar Association. In this third part of the Legal Aspects of Blockchain Technology series, I will explore ...
This blog series is based on a chapter for the forthcoming book entitled "Essentials of Blockchain Technology". The chapter was written together with Martim Taborda Barata, LL.M., Senior Associate at ICT Legal Consulting International, and lawyer registered at the Portuguese Bar Association. In this second part of the Legal Aspects of Blockchain Technology series, I will focus ...
Top-tier ICT, privacy & data protection lawyer and Founding Partner of ICT Legal Consulting. Professor of Privacy, Cybersecurity, and IT Contract Law at the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity within the Maastricht University Faculty of Law. President of the European Privacy Association. Lead Auditor BS ISO/IEC 27001:2013 (IRCA Certified).
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