News on Privacy & Security

Introduction In the past years, growing popular debate and technological developments have focused on the potential and promises of decentralised or distributed technologies for purposes of financial transactions, digital governance, data processing, and content sharing. However, the project of leveraging decentralisation as a means of resistance

Declaration This work was based on the research developed in the framework of PNRR/NextGenerationEU project "Biorobotics Research and Innovation Engineering Facilities “IR0000036” – CUP J13C22000400007". Why should we bother about cybersecurity in AI systems? According to statistics, a cyberattack currently occurs every 39 seconds, and this trend

GDPR compliance can be hard, but does not have to, as we demonstrate in the context of consent banners and mobile apps.

In 2021, a message tracing regulation came into effect in India. This leaves the private communications of half a billion users of such services vulnerable to novel forms of abuse. The authors discuss the relevance to jurisdictions worldwide currently mulling over encryption regulation.

A Metaverse from a non-regulated tech environment might cause digital harm to vulnerable communities. The authors argue that addressing policy gaps with social work principles will lead to algorithmic equity in the virtual world.

The Regulation on Political Advertising (RPA) represents the EU’s most significant effort to address concerns about political advertising’s democratic impact, but does it live up to the Commission’s hype ?

The European Commission recently released its first review of two years of application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). René Mahieu and Jef Ausloos do not agree with the largely positive self-assessment and explain their main points of contention by summarising their own submission to the Commission.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Recital 23 brought an obligation to all companies that receive, control or process personal data of European Union (EU) residents to comply with the minimal safeguards stated in European legislation. One of the main issues is the fact that companies that are not based in the EU, which receive, store

As the Covid-19 pandemic expanded across the world, so did the debates on whether fighting this sanitary emergency would require the use of personal data, and on how that would impact pre-established data protection frameworks. In Brazil , these concerns first came to light with the announcement of agreements between government and telco companies

Miglė Petkevičienė -- lawyer turned part-time home-teacher during the Covid-19 -- waives a privacy report card and fills it out for Lithuania. Would your country pass the test?