The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act is a response to the challenges the USA and foreign law enforcement authorities have been facing in their efforts to access electronic evidence stored beyond their territorial jurisdictions. My article published in International Data Privacy Law, analyses the CLOUD Act focusing on the adequacy of privacy
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Regulating problematic online content has become a pressing issue around the world. The ease and speed with which harmful and dangerous content is disseminated and accessed via social media particularly reinforces this challenge. Many countries have or are considering some form of legislation to regulate problematic online content, be it hate speech, fake news, or extremist
Read moreThe European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) released an Opinion on the potential EU-US agreement on facilitating cross-border data access in criminal matters. In his Opinion, the EDPS welcomed the Commission’s Recommendation authorizing the opening of negotiations between the EU and the US on cross-border access to electronic evidence as envisaged by the CLOUD Act. To
Read moreKeywords: Privacy, surveillance capitalism, Facebook, social networks, encrypted services On the 6th of March 2019, Mark Zuckerberg announced a brand new vision for his company and highlighted his position on the future of the internet. Suggesting a major change to his long-held philosophy of “making the world more open and connected,” Zuckerberg predicts that
Read moreJoseph Cannataci, the U.N. special rapporteur on the right to privacy, who is also supervising some of the Research Fellows at ESSENTIAL, has submitted a draft questionnaire on ‘’Metrics for Privacy’’, which would be a first step toward ranking the governments that are potentially doing the most snooping on their own citizens. In his report,
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