This paper examines how the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) can be used to address procedural problems faced by platform workers, including opaque rating systems, arbitrary account suspension and nonpayment, and uncommunicative clients and platform operators. GDPR provides workers with...

Last year, the European Commission proposed a comprehensive reform of the EU's data protection rules. The proposed regulation has been surrounded by fierce controversy and has been the subject of frenzied lobbying by global corporations, industry groups, research centres and privacy campaigners...

The EU Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) is proposing a far-reaching "European Cybersecurity Certification Scheme for Cloud Services" (EUCS) to be established in the European Union (EU). According to the latest draft of August 2023, leaked by Politico in September 2023, the...

This paper discusses findings from a review of recent literature on support for securing compliance and better practice in occupational safety and health (OSH) in the changing world of work in advanced market economies. It explores innovative responses of regulators and private actors to the...

Since 2002 and the publication of the Mandelkern report,1 the question of reducing burdens and costs, both regulatory and administrative, has emerged as a recurrent topic that regularly comes up at the European Council. It is, moreover, revealing that one of the points of rupture that led the...