Cybersecurity

The GDPR: cybersecurity, anti-fraud, and why it is a work in progress 0
- Digital Policy and Internet Governance, EU Governance and Politics, Op-ed
- 31/05/2018
The European Union’s biggest reform of data protection laws in over 20 years – the new General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR – has become effective as of May 25.
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Cyber security: what lessons the European Union can learn from the French election 1
- Digital Policy and Internet Governance, International Relations and Global Affairs, Op-ed
- 13/08/2017
Forget about foreign conflict, instability and terrorism: cyber security attacks are quickly becoming the biggest threat to European democracies. Over the past ten years, we have witnessed a steady and worrisome increase in online criminal activity, with cases of theft, espionage and data extraction on the rise. What were once merely disruptive threats have now become destructive attacks. Dealing with cyber attacks will require more than legislative proposals and “mainstreaming cybersecurity”.
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Obama’s Executive Order on Cybersecurity: Sharing is caring or a new loophole for ubiquitous surveillance?0
- Digital Policy and Internet Governance, Op-ed
- 13/03/2015
“Everybody is online, and everybody is vulnerable” – claims the US President, Barack Obama, preaching for the necessity of strengthening the US cybersecurity at the White House’s Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection on February 13, 2015. However, there is always the reverse side of the coin, and, ironically, such a statement could have been equally used to describe the consequent situation with consumer privacy and omnibus surveillance.
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