Cross-border data flows are the lifeblood of today’s social and economic interactions, but they also raise a range of new challenges, including for privacy and data protection, national security, cybersecurity, digital protectionism and regulatory reach. This has led to a surge in regulation...

The goal of this study is to assess the economic and environmental impact of edge computing on IoT at the global scale. This study focuses on "Professional IoT", which corresponds to the industrial strengths and opportunities for the EU: Automotive electronics, factory automation (including...

The metaverse as it is currently envisioned – a persistent and immersive world based on virtual and augmented reality – is an immense business opportunity across all major sectors and industries and will further increase the volume and variety of available data. Those unlimited data streams...

On February 23, 2022, the European Commission presented a proposal for the Data Act. This regulation is intended to regulate access to and use of data in the European Union in the future. It includes requirements for data transfer to users of products and services that produce data, to...

In May 2021, the UK National Health Service (NHS) proposed a scheme-called General Practice Data for Planning Research (GPDPR)-for sharing patients' data. Under that system, a patient who does not wish to participate must actively opt out of their data being shared with third parties for...