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Working Papers

The Brussels Privacy Hub Working Papers are intended to circulate research in progress for comment and discussion. The Working Papers focus on all areas of data protection and privacy research and can contain empirical research on privacy issues and analytical work on privacy governance and regulation in the EU; global flows of data; reconciling law enforcement and privacy interests; privacy challenges posed by new technologies; comparative research on privacy in different regions; jurisprudential issues of privacy protection; and many others.

Editorial Board: Paul De Hert and Christopher Kuner

Contact: info@brusselsprivacyhub.eu

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N°30 Necessity knows no law in contaminated times: the rule of law under pandemic police and pandemic legislation’ (‘Nood breekt wet in besmette tijden: de rechtsstatelijkheid van de pandemiepolitie en pandemiewetgeving’) (November 2021) by Paul De Hert (33 pages)
N°29 Facial recognition, visual and biometric data in the US. Recent, promising developments to regulate intrusive technologies (October 2021) by Paul De Hert and Georgios Bouchagiar (46 pages)
N°28 Adding and removing elements of the proportionality and necessity test to achieve desired outcomes. Breyer and the necessity to end anonymity of cell phone users (September 2021) by Paul De Hert and Georgios Bouchagiar (26 pages)
N°27 Fashion ID and Decisively Influencing Facebook Plugins: A Fair Approach to Single and Joint Controllership (June 2021) by Paul De Hert and Georgios Bouchagiar (24 pages)
N°26 European Law Enforcement and US Data Companies: A Decade of Cooperation Free from Law (September 2020) by Angela Aguinaldo and Paul De Hert (16 pages)
N°25 The Dark Side of the MOOC? The Rise of EdTech in Times of COVID-19: A Data Protection Challenge for Universities (August 2020) by Jonas Botta, Postdoctoral Researcher at the German Research Institute for Public Administration and Reader in Human Rights Law at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (16 pages)
N°24 Individuation: re-imagining data privacy laws to protect against digital harms (July 2020) by Anna Johnston, Principal of Salinger Privacy (22 pages)
N°23 Logic and Key Points of China’s Cybersecurity Review Measures (June 2020) by Yanqing Hong, Senior Fellow, Law and Development Institute, Peking University of China, Edited by Vagelis Papakonstantinou, Brussels Privacy Hub (9 pages)
N°22 The “Ethification” of Privacy and Data Protection Law in the European Union. The Case of Artificial Intelligence (May 2020) by Niels van Dijk and Simone Casiraghi (23 pages)
N°21 Article 8 ECHR compliant and foreseeable surveillance: the ECtHR’s expanded legality requirement copied by the CJEU. A discussion of European surveillance case law (April 2020) by Paul De Hert & Gianclaudio Malgieri (42 pages)
N°20 The Proposed ePrivacy Regulation: The Commission’s and the Parliament’s Drafts at a Crossroads? (March 2020) by Elena Gil González, Paul De Hert & Vagelis Papakonstantinou
N°19 Access to the Internet in the EU: a policy priority, a fundamental, a human right or a concern for eGovernment? (February 2020) by Lina Jasmontaite and Paul de Hert (23 pages)
N°18 Challenging algorithmic profiling: The limits of data protection and anti-discrimination in responding to emergent discrimination
(January 2020) by Dr Monique Mann and Professor Tobias Matzner (18 pages)
N°17 Data Localisation: Deconstructing myths and suggesting a workable model for the future. The cases of China and the EU (August 2019) Author: Yanqing Hong, Senior Fellow, Law and Development Institute, Peking University of China; Edited by Vagelis Papakonstantinou, Brussels Privacy Hub (31 pages)
N°16 Big data analytics in electronic communications: A reality in need of granular regulation (even if this includes an interim period of no regulation at all) (June 2019) by Vagelis Papakonstantinou & Paul de Hert (25 pages)

N°15 Belgium, Courts, Privacy and Data Protection. An inventory of Belgian case law from the pre-GDPR regime (1995-2015). (January 2019) by Paul De Hert (34 pages)
N°14 Enforcement in Indonesia Data Privacy Laws: The 2018 Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal as a case study (October 2018) by Anbar Jayadi (21 pages)
N°13 Big data analytics by telecommunications operators and the draft ePrivacy Regulation (September 2018) by Vagelis Papakonstantinou & Paul de Hert (13 pages)
N°12 Understanding the balancing act behind the legitimate interest of the controller ground: a pragmatic approach (August 2018) by Irene Kamara and Paul De Hert (35 pages)
N°11 The Microsoft Ireland case and the cyberspace sovereignty trilemma. Post-territorial technologies and companies question territorial state sovereignty and regulatory state monopolies (July 2018) by Paul de Hert & Johannes Thumfart (27 pages)
N°10 “Does Technology Drive Law? The Dilemma Of Technological Exceptionalism In Cyberlaw” (July 2017) by Meg Leta Jones, JD, PhD (31 pages)
N°9 “European Human Rights, Criminal Surveillance, and Intelligence Surveillance: Towards “Good Enough” Oversight, Preferably but Not Necessarily by Judges” (March 2017) by Gianclaudio Malgieri & Paul De Hert (25 pages)
N°8 “The “Right to be Forgotten” and Search Engine Liability” (December 2016) by Hiroshi Miyashita (15 pages)
N°7 “Structure and Enforcement of Data Privacy Law in South Korea” (October 2016) by Haksoo Ko, John Leitner, Eunsoo Kim and Jong-Gu Jung (20 pages)
N°6 “Permissions and Prohibitions in Data Protection Jurisdiction” (May 2016) by Mistale Taylor (25 pages)
N°5 “The right to privacy and personal data protection in Brazil: time for internet privacy rights?” (February 2016) by Vinícius Borges Fortes (23 pages)
N°4 “The data protection regime in China” (November 2015) by Paul De Hert and Vagelis Papakonstantinou (30 pages)
N°3 “Towards efficient cooperation between supervisory authorities in the area of data privacy law” (October 2015) by Dariusz Kloza, Antonella Galetta (24 pages)
N°2 “The new cloud computing ISO/IEC 27018 standard through the lens of the EU legislation on data protection” (November 2014) by Paul de Hert, Vagelis Papakonstantinou, Irene Kamara (25 pages)
N°1 “The data protection regime applying to the inter-agency cooperation and future architecture of the EU criminal justice and law enforcement area” (November 2014) by Paul De Hert and Vagelis Papakonstantinou (35 pages)

Workshop Summaries

BPH hosts regular workshops, conferences and seminars on various pertinent privacy and data protection issues. These summaries provide the opportunity to those who did not attend to be informed of the key points of discussion:

Law enforcement access to financial data – off the beaten track (17 September 2021)
Fifth anniversary of the EU PNR Directive – la route vers la CJUE (16 September 2021)
EU legislation on e-evidence – what is inside the (Pandora’s) box? (15 September 2021)
Tech Talk on Differential Privacy (19 April 2021)
How to exercise data subject rights under the Law Enforcement Directive (EU) 2016/680? (2 April 2021)
Does the EU need to urgently adopt the Interim Regulation on the processing of personal and other data for the purpose of combatting child sexual abuse online? (1 April 2021)
CPDP2021 Opening: Who is sovereign in our digital world? (8 March 2021)
Making the General Data Protection Regulation simple for Small and
Medium-sized enterprises (26 February 2021)
The CJEU judgments in Privacy International and La Quadrature du Net and others - the return of the walking dead? (19 November 2020)
Specifying the GDPR Series: Germany (12 November 2020)
Mind reading via EEG – legal, ethical and practical matters (4 November 2020)
The Promise of “Blockchain”: DLT-based applications re-shape data storage and sharing, but can they be compliant with the EU data protection law? (18 June 2020)
Specifying GDPR: Member States perspective - France (12 November 2019)
AI governance: theoretical and practical implications of EU “regulation” on AI (9 October 2019)
Mapping EU cybersecurity law and its future challenges (11 October 2019)
Meet the Author Series: The Internet and the Global Reach of EU Law (Prof Christopher Kuner) (4 October 2019)
“The (In)Alienable Data Subjects: The seductions of data ownership, control and trade in data protection law” (24 June 2019)
The EU rights to privacy and personal data protection:

20 years in 10 questions (14 May 2019)
The Trouble with Article 25 (and How to Fix It): The Future of Data Protection by Design and Default (25 February 2019)
The copyright directive and concerns for free expression, big data innovation and access to information (30 November 2018)
Data localisation: Analysing a growing global regulatory phenomenon (11 October 2018)
The GDPR and Journalism. Protecting Privacy or a Break on Democratic Accountability? (18 September 2018 )
Data protection for scientific research: Which preliminary findings under the GDPR? (29 August 2018)
Law Enforcement Data Access Series: “Encrypted data: Challenges and Opportunities” (6 June 2018)
Roundtable: Current Privacy and Security Challenges in the United States, Belgium and the EU (4 June 2018)

Law Enforcement Data Access Series: US CLOUD-Act: Signalling change in global data flows? (18 April 2108)
Conference on Data Protection in Humanitarian Action (12 March 2018)
Lunchtime Workshop: “Putting a price on your invaluable private life? Personal data and the values behind” (20 February 2018)
Lunchtime Workshop: “Data protection and ethics. Does more ethics imply more duties for controllers?” (26 October 2017)
Conference: Jurisdiction, Conflict of Laws and Data Protection in Cyberspace (12 October 2017)
Lunchtime Workshop: The Implications of the GDPR for Research Involving Genetic Data (5 October 2017)
Health and Well-being Apps Problematic Legal Issues (24 April 2017)
Data protection and the energy sector: Smart grids (21 March 2017)
Current trends and practices in Biobanking (6 February 2017)
Scientific Research and Data Protection (9 December 2016)
What is to be done with the ePrivacy Directive? (27 October 2016)
Privacy Impact Assessment (4 October 2016)
The Right to Freedom of Expression and Personal Data Protection (16 June 2016)
The European Data Protection Board (18 May 2016)
Territorial Scope (8 March 2016)

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