In the 18th century Immanuel Kant famously initiated a “Copernican revolution” in philosophy by shifting the understanding of reality away from external objects and towards the cognitive powers of the individual. The European Commission’s recent proposal for a General Data Protection...

This deliverable presents the preliminary results of T:D-4.1 of Work Package 44 of the Cloud Accountability Project. This deliverable is partly an exploratory deliverable which investigates whether there has been a rise in the number of investigations of cloud providers conducted by the European...

The author analyzes innovations in data processing and discusses what the impact of these developments is on individuals and society. She discusses what the role is of data protection in these developments as well as four privacy paradoxes, and how to best regulate the complex relationship...

The rapid development of information technology has exacerbated the need for robust personal data protection, the right to which is safeguarded by both European Union (EU) and Council of Europe (CoE) instruments. Safeguarding this important right entails new and signifi cant challenges as...