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Data & Privacy

20-10-2023

EU-US data transfer agreements: an endless disagreement?

This week, Max Schrems, an Austrian lawyer and activist who launched the not-for-profit organisation NYOB, standing for None-of-Your-Business, joins Euractiv Tech brief podcast to talk about the European Union - United States Data Privacy Framework, the new transatlantic agreement allowing …

Technology 02-12-2022

Data Act – where are we?

The Data Act has the grand ambition of creating a market for non-personal data in Europe. We discussed with Heiko Richter, a researcher from the Max Planck Institute, the current state of the policy discussions on the new data law …

Technology 09-09-2022

Is GDPR enforcement catching up?

This week, the Irish Data Protection Commission sanctioned Instagram for violating children's privacy. After much waiting for the EU's data protection rulebook to bite, privacy watchdogs have started to show their teeth. Is this a sign of a new trend? …

Health 05-03-2021

Vaccine ‘travel pass’ and French trial over data protection risks

This week on EURACTIV’s Yellow Room, we are talking about the proposed vaccine “travel pass” and the controversy around it. EU countries whose economies depend on tourism seem to be eager to adopt the proposed solution, while others are more skeptical …

Technology 02-04-2020

Europe’s COVID-19 App Attack

In a desperate attempt to gain some of a sense of control over the spread of the COVID-19, governments across Europe are looking out to the far-east for lessons on how to trace the spread of the virus.