Data protection and ICT

What are the main issues in the legal framework of informed consent for the processing of personal data? We address the issue with Alessandro Ortalda, a researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.


We focus on the Issues and gaps analysis on informed consent in the context of ICT research and Innovation, produced within the context of Panelfit. Download it here: https://bit.ly/D21InformedConsent

Find here the other analyses: https://www.panelfit.eu/deliverables/

A chat around Carissa Véliz's latest book "Privacy is Power" and on some connected topics. How to raise people awareness about the consequences of sharing personal data? Is the frame given by the media to the topic a good one to understand the issue? In which sense privacy is a collective rather than individual matter?

A talk with Adam Panagiotopoulos, data protection expert at Trilateral Research, about the use of AI solutions in the public sector, with a focus on GDPR.

Łukasz Król, researcher who works with the College of Europe in Natolin (Poland) talks with us about cybersecurity issues, threat models, companies accountability on the use of people's data, and a lot more.

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 at the Standing Committee of European Doctors.

Liesbeth Hermans is Chief Marketing Officer at Fourcast, a Google Cloud Premier partner active in all Europe and headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. Fourcast specialises in implementing Google Cloud technologies at companies. Fourcast services go from transforming the Digital Workplace to modernising IT infrastructure while moving data to the Cloud, to building data lakes & warehouses and applying AI & ML technologies.

In the podcast we talk about the main cybersecurity threats that Fourcast has to face when providing Google Cloud services, and the measures it takes to protect customers' data.

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 doctoral researcher at the Brussels University.

Security and privacy are often presented as highly related issues. The more you bow in terms of privacy, we're told, the more you get closer to national security. Is this relation true? How does surveillance policies impact on national and societal security? We asked these (and more) question to Johann Čas, an economists with a technical background working at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Researcher Lorena Perez Campillo gives an overview of how cloud computing and blockchain are being implemented in healthcare, and what are the opportunities and downsides of those on data protection.

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- European Parlament: “Blockchain and the General Data Protection Regulation.” (2019)

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There is a lot of interest on digital pills in the health field. This technology can have a big impact both on healthcare systems and public policies. But what are the downsides of the spread of such devices? We talk about it with Iñigo De Miguel Beriain, bioethicist and research professor at the University of the Basque Country. UPV/EHU