As the notorious 2017 Equifax Breach was unfolding in the United States, the European Union was counting down the days until the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) would become enforceable. This Law Review Note was written as these events were developing, and it analyzes various legal...

Due to the key role of personal data in the digital economy competition law and data protection law are getting deeply intertwined. This article uses a market failure framework for analyzing new important interaction effects between both legal regimes. Since on digital markets competition...

Is privacy a luxury for the rich world? Remarkably, there is a dearth of literature evaluating whether data privacy is too costly for companies to implement, or too expensive for governments to enforce. This paper is the first to offer a review of surveys of costs of compliance, and to summarize...

In this article, I consider to what extent the fundamental right to privacy applies to economic transactions in EU law. After considering the relevant case law of the European Court of Human Rights, I examine various areas of EU law: data protection, business secrets, inspections and the right...

Blockchain is a revolutionary technology that enables the secure recording and storage of transactions without the need for a trusted third-party intermediary. This distributed ledger technology has the potential to mainstream entirely new, decentralized business models where determining the...

Data protection is one of the most discussed topics today. European citizens are affected by data processing in every part of their daily life. But, in case of misuse of their personal data, are they aware of the rights that protect them? European data protection rules can be found in the...

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...