This article shows how personalisation may exploit vulnerabilities of consumers and that EU consumer law contains significant barriers to effectively address such exploitation.
Research articles on PRIVACY & SECURITY
Can public authorities in the EU continue using US cloud services in light of the EU Court’s view of the US surveillance regime? Maybe, but it will require a lot of work.
The extraterritorial application of GDPR does not promote European values. Rather, it evokes wrong expectations about the universality of individual rights.
How have app stores governed the global app response to the coronavirus pandemic? An exploratory systematic mapping of COVID-19 pandemic response apps.
This research investigates EU member states’ preferences and coalitions in recent negotiations of the Council of the EU related to the digital single market.
The concept of self-sovereign identity (SSI) describes an identity management system created to operate independently of third-party public or private actors, based on decentralised technological architectures, and designed to prioritise user security, privacy, individual autonomy and self-empowerment.
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Identity
Interdisciplinary glossary on peer-to-peer, user-centric and privacy-enhancing decentralised technologies
You often share other people’s personal data alongside your own, because you benefit from it (and so do controllers).
PDSs aim to empower users over their data. We explain their limits, and describe why decentralising data processing does not imply decentralisation of power.
Cybersecurity describes technical and social measures needed to protect networked information systems. But its evolution has led to concerns of inappropriate militarisation.