The measures adopted by some Balkan countries to contain the pandemic have raised perplexity in associations and researchers who deal with privacy and digital rights. Emergency actions, derogating from the national rules of law, could translate into mass surveillance tools. Federico Caruso, member of the PANELFIT team, has made a very interesting publication, drawing attention to these … Read more
PANELFIT and the NKL Network lead by our EAB Anna Lydia Svalastog co-organize a webinar devoted to analysing the role to be played by new technologies in the COVID crisis. Webinar will focus on the ethical, legal and social issues at stake. We look forward to receiving proposals for short (10-15 min) presentations related to … Read more
Carlos Romeo PANELFIT coordinator was interviewed in EL PAIS, about the possible investigation with healthy volunteers who would be inoculated with SARS-CoV-2.
Contact tracing apps and GDPR. The relevance of such apps in the more general context of health data as a tool for epidemiological studies and strategies. Data protection and health privacy in the context of employment. We addressed these and other issues with Sara Judite Mendes Roda, senior policy advisor in the digital health life … Read more
Due to an unforeseen last minute event the PANELFIT monthly chat is postponed. We ask for your patience for the inconvenience and hope you can join us next week. On the next PANELFIT monthly chat we’ll discuss with Sara Mendes Roda @CPME_EUROPA, about data protection at the age of Coronavirus, with a focus on the … Read more
Gianclaudio Malgieri published (together with Giovanni Comande and Denise Amram an article entitled ‘Raccogliere piu dati si puo: c’e la legge’, *Corriere della Sera *(4 April 2020) and another article entitled: ‘The democracy of emergency at the time of the coronavirus: the virtues of privacy’, *Opinio Juris in comparatione, *preprint (April 2020)
The coordinator of the PANELFIT project, Carlos María Romeo Casabona acted as the Scientific Coordinator of the “Informe del Ministerio de Sanidad sobre los aspectos éticos en situaciones de pandemia: El SARS-CoV-2 (Report by the Ministry of Health about the ethical issues of pandemic situations: SARS-COV-2)”.
Liesbeth Hermans, Chief Marketing Officer at Fourcast.io talked about cybersecurity issues involved in the implementation of Google Cloud services in Europe. Fourcast specialises in implementing Google Cloud technologies at companies, and their point of view is very interesting on the side of cybersecurity measures against data breaches and other cybersecurity threats. Audio podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/user/11611559/cloud-services-and-cybersecurity ?
Madrid 2-4 March. European experts meet to participate in the development of Panelfit guidelines that will provide recommendations for action on Data Protection and Cybersecurity issues in the use of main technologies. What basic aspects of data protection and cybersecurity need to be considered to writing an email, designing a website or sending a newsletter? … Read more
Vulnerable Data Subjects and EU law. Who are vulnerable data subjects, and what are they risking when they take decisions on their personal data? What harms could they suffer when those data are processed and actions are taken on their behalf? We addressed these and other issues with Gianclaudio Malgieri, Attorney at Law and a … Read more