• Privacy and Data Protection Impact Assessments (PIAs/DPIAs) are tools for organisations to manage privacy risks. They emerged in various jurisdictions from the 1980s, initially as a purely voluntary measure. DPIAs are now set to become a mandatory requirement in certain circumstances under...

The goal of this article is to provide a framework for assessing issues of data portability and other required transfers of data. Greater portability and other required transfers of data can have pro-competitive effects – if more companies have access to commercially valuable data, then there...

This paper reviews the economic literature on the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). I highlight key challenges for studying the regulation including the difficulty of finding a suitable control group, variable firm compliance and regulatory enforcement, as well as the...

Die Einführung von Kryptowährungen und der Blockchain-Technologie stellt unsere Gesellschaft vor völlig neue Herausforderungen. Schon in naher Zukunft werden sämtliche Bestandteile unseres Lebens unter dem Einfluss eines dezentralen Netzwerks stehen. Banken, Unternehmen, sogar Regierungen...