A tiny little organism has shaken the world and our well-established systems in unexpected ways. It has altered everything we’re acquainted with. Regardless of where the outbreak started and what the origin of COVID-19 is, this tiny virus, said to be 80 to 120 nm in diameter, seems to be …
Would you give up your privacy for the greater good? Mobile technology allows us to communicate instantaneously and, to most of us, it’s a great ally to act more efficiently no matter the time or the place. It’s said to be one of the most promising tools (or set of …
Two years after the coming into force of the GDPR, we are seeing over 300 GDPR sanctions across EU countries, and ongoing discussions on how to prove compliance as seen by different data protection authorities. But is GDPR compliance really a local challenge, one company branch in one EU country …
Data, technology, and (almost) instantaneous communication give us, more than ever before, the means and capacity to combat the COVID-19 perils more effectively. People traceability, real-time tracking and supply monitoring are a few examples of what governments and security forces can currently do to mitigate the spread of the disease. …
Is the need for privacy inherent to human nature or a temporary error shaped by the artifacts and technology that our brains have invented in the last millennium? Private rooms only appeared somewhere in the last 600 years, and solo reading, in silence, became a common behavior when the printing …
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation 2016/679) requires companies to act lawfully, fairly and transparently in their use of personal data and in how they deal with people whose data they process. Businesses have to be transparent and honest about what they’re doing and why. What does that mean?
