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On 30 May 2024, the Council of the European Union announced its final approval of the Union’s long anticipated withdrawal from what can fairly be labelled as the most controversial international treaty ever, the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT).
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Last year’s COP28 has resulted in a ‘historic’ mention of fossil fuels in its final decision, be it in a rather limited way. Where does the EU, the forerunner in climate action, stand when it comes to the elimination of fossil fuels? This post highlights a few problematic features of the EU’s policy...
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I am very pleased that today we will start teaching the EU and Global Cybersecurity Fundamentals course within the Advanced Master in Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Management LLM we created at ECPC. Today we will kick off the course with Brian Honan, who will lecture on the concept of...
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This blog post is a re-elaboration of my interview this morning with Luca Bertuzzi, Digital & Media Editor from EurActiv, available here.
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“The SolarWinds Attack is, to date, the most visible, widespread, and intrusive information technology (‘IT’) software supply chain attack – i.e., a cyber attack that corrupts IT software and uses that software as an attack vector. Supply chain attacks are dangerous because the malware is embedded...
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Over the last 20 years, access to cheap computational capacity has increasingly led to the harvesting of more and more personal data, without having to worry too much about costs related to data storage and processing activities.
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What was promised by the GDPR (Art. 80 and Rec. 142) is now a reality!
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Survey on the Maastricht University Data Protection as a Corporate Social Responsibility (UM DPCSR) Icons Version 1.0 to facilitate users’ understanding of how their data is used.
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28 January was Data Protection Day, an annual celebration of privacy and data protection commemorating the date that Convention 108 of the Council of Europe was first opened for signature. This year, however, I would invite all data protection practitioners, academics, business leaders, educators...
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Over the past twelve months we have been working to finalize the Maastricht University Data Protection as a Corporate Social Responsibility Framework (see our first Manifesto). An important aim of the forthcoming Framework is found in the internationally recognized principle of transparency. One of...