The Balance Between Security, Privacy and Data Protection in IoT Data Sharing: a Critique to Traditional "Security&Privacy" Surveys

in European Data Protection Law Review (2021), 7(1), 18-30

The paper examines the normative challenges of the Internet of Things (IoT), in particular, taking into account today’s debate on privacy, data protection, and security issues brought about by IoT. Three ... [more ▼]

The paper examines the normative challenges of the Internet of Things (IoT), in particular, taking into account today’s debate on privacy, data protection, and security issues brought about by IoT. Three different layers of complexity are under scrutiny. They regard (i) moral and political theories on the concept of ‘security’; (ii) whether and to what extent information security technologies, in the context of IoT, may affect fundamental rights, such as privacy and data protection; and, (iii) new legal challenges for individual and group privacy and data protection. The overall aim of the paper is, on the one hand, to stress basic differences between privacy and data protection and why the distinction matters vis-à-vis the flow of information and data sharing on IoT. On the other hand, the intent is to stress the different meanings security has in this context, since the word is often used interchangeably to address information security, cybersecurity, or safety issues. We should take these distinctions firm, when striking balances between privacy, data protection, and ‘security’ on IoT. [less ▲]

Recent Developments and Overview of the Country and Practitioner’s Reports

in European Data Protection Law Review (2020), 6(3), 422-423

Recent Developments and Overview of the Country Reports

in European Data Protection Law Review (2020), 6(2), 259-261

European Union ∙ The Commission Proposal and EDPS Opinion 7/2018 on the Proposed Regulation Concerning Identity Cards of Union Citizens and Other Documents

in European Data Protection Law Review (2018), 4/2018(4), 505-514

European Union ∙ EDPS and Article 29 Working Party Opinions about the Commission Proposals on the Interoperability of Databases

in European Data Protection Law Review (2018), 4(2), 217-226

Legal Developments in the Protection of Whistleblowers in the European Union

in European Data Protection Law Review (2018), 4(4), 483-491

United Kingdom ∙ Investigatory Powers Tribunal: Privacy International v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Ors Part II

in European Data Protection Law Review (2017), 3(3), 387-393

Roles and Powers of National Data Protection Authorities Moving from Directive 95/46/EC to the GDPR: Stronger and More ‘European’ DPAs as Guardians of Consistency?

in European Data Protection Law Review (2016), 2(3), 342-352

Safeguarding the rights of the citizens to the protection of their personal data in an era of nearly ubiquitous computing has become increasingly challenging. National data protection authorities (DPAs ... [more ▼]

Safeguarding the rights of the citizens to the protection of their personal data in an era of nearly ubiquitous computing has become increasingly challenging. National data protection authorities (DPAs), central actors in the data protection landscape, face a difficult task when fulfilling their missions and acting as guardians of these rights under the provisions of the outdated Directive 95/46/EC. Critical decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union illustrate the challenge of 'stretching' the provisions regarding the powers and competences of DPAs under the Directive to make them applicable to current data processing realities. The article points out the existing problems under the current framework with regard to powers and competence of DPAs and examines if and to what extent they are mended by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It analyses substantive and procedural aspects of the new cooperation model under the one-stop-shop and consistency mechanisms and discusses whether and how these new tools successfully contribute to solve existing problems. [less ▲]

No Place to Hide – Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State

in European Data Protection Law Review (2015), 1(3), 249-254