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Data protection

Trust needs control

Katarzyna Szymielewicz, Panoptykon Foundation
PUBLISHED ON: 28 May 2015

Privacy means control over our personal data... and human rights lawyer Katarzyna Szymielewicz explains why this matters when it comes to the European Union General Data Protection Regulation.

Internet governance

Internet governance needs to develop ambitions

Amelia Andersdotter, Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries (CENTR)
PUBLISHED ON: 30 Apr 2015

"The legal systems in both the United States and in the European Union member states are simply not cut out for citizen-driven, peer-to-peer communication," argues Swedish Pirate Party member Amelia Anderdotter.

Trade policy

Why trade is not the place for the EU to negotiate privacy

Margot Kaminski, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
PUBLISHED ON: 23 Jan 2015

As negotiations progress over the EU-US free-trade agreement TTIP, it is natural that somebody will propose addressing privacy differences through trade. But several features of free trade agreements make negotiating data protection in the trade regime a very bad idea for the EU.

Right to erasure

Forget, erase and delist, but don’t forget the broader issue

Jef Ausloos, University of Amsterdam
PUBLISHED ON: 22 Jan 2015

In the past 12 months privacy and data protection took a much more prominent role in internet policy discussions. One of the key examples is the so-called Google Spain case . Researcher Jef Ausloos revisits the case at the European privacy conference CPDP .

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