Data Protection Law International Convergence and Compliance with Innovative Technologies (DPLICIT)
Jaap-Henk Hoepman (1966) is currently a guest professor at the PriSec - Privacy and Security group of Karlstad University, Sweden. He is also an associate professor at the Digital Security group of the Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, working for the iHub, the interdisciplinary research hub on Digitalization and Society. He studies privacy by design and privacy friendly protocols for identity management and the Internet of Things. He speaks on these topics at national and international congresses and publishes papers in (inter)national journals. He also appears in the media as security and privacy expert, and writes about his research in the popular press. He is actively involved in the public debate concerning security and privacy in our society. In October 2021 his book Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths. Achieving Privacy through Careful Design appeared at MIT Press. In his free time he enjoys making and composing music, designing graphics, cooking, and practising Okinawan Goju Ryu karate-do. Meiko Jensen is a senior lecturer in the PriSec - Privacy and Security group at Karlstad University, Sweden. He is also a member of the Ad-Hoc Working Group on Data Protection Engineering at ENISA, the European Cybersecurity Agency, and a lecturer and trainer for companies on various topics, including privacy engineering, cloud security, ethical hacking, and data protection basics. His research focus is on privacy engineering, specifically on implementing data subject rights and data protection impact assessments according to GDPR into real-world IT systems. Meiko received his Ph.D. on the topic of cloud security from the Horst Grtz Institute for IT-Security at Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany, and a title of full professor from Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Meiko is a renowned expert on privacy engineering and legal compliance, and an active contributor to the ongoing debates around the European data strategy and data spaces implementation. Maria Grazia Porcedda is tenured Assistant Professor in Information Technology Law and a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She carries out research on cybercrime, cybersecurity, data protection, privacy, surveillance and systemic factors that shape IT law. Maria Grazias monograph Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection in EU Law (Hart Publishing 2023) is the first major work on this topic. Maria Grazias research is sponsored by Enterprise Ireland, the Society of Legal Scholars, a Provosts PhD Project Award on cybersecurity and cybercrime law in Ireland and the EU MSCA DN HARNESS (from 2025). She is a Collaborator with the ADAPT SFI Research Centre for AI-driven Digital Content Technology, a member of the European Data Protection Board's Support Pool of Experts and the External Pool of Experts at Hsbooster.eu; she serves on Horizon Europe VIGILANTs ethical advisory board. Maria Grazia trained at the EDPS and the OECD and previously worked at the University of Leeds, the European University Institute (where she gained her PhD) and the University of Namur (CRIDs). Stefan Schiffner is currently lecturing Computer Networks at the University of Munster. He has been a post-doctoral researcher at University of Luxembourg, an expert in information security at the European Unions Cyber Security Agency (ENISA), and a post-doctoral researcher at TU Darmstadt, where he led a team of researchers on the topics of privacy and trust within the Telekooperation group. He holds a Ph.D. from KU Leuven (Topic: models for online privacy, trust and reputation) and the Degree of Diplom Informatiker from TU Dresden. His research interests focus on secure information technologies and their policy implications. This includes specifically Privacy Enhancing Technologies, computational trust, by Design Paradigms, and maturity and market readiness of technologies. A computer scientist by training, Stefan is an advocate for the free use of
Part 1 Sharing and Caring for Data Subjects.- Chapter 1 When laws are inadequate: Enabling compliant health data transfers between South Africa and the EU.- Chapter 2 The European Commission's adequacy decisions' content as a guide for applying the adequacy assessment criteria.- Part 2 Acting smart around Artificial Intelligence.- Chapter 3 Towards the effective extraterritorial enforcement of the AI Act.- Chapter 4 Exploring Legal Bases for AI Training under the GDPR.- Part 3 What the GDPR left unsolved.- Chapter 5 Is it Personal data? Solving the gordian knot of anonymisation.- Chapter 6 The Meta-moth-phosis" of Data Portability: Observing the Transformation of Data Portability through a Comparative Analysis of Definitions Across European Legal Frameworks.- Part 4 Humans as Data Sources: Implications of Data Collection at Places where we are most Vulnerable.- Chapter 7 Who are the Users of Smart Homes? Surveillance in Domestic IoT Contexts.- Part 5 Do we understand what happens to our Data?.- Chapter 8 Towards Cross-Provider Analysis of Transparency Information for Data Protection.- Chapter 9 Analysis of Transparency and User-relevancy of DTC Company Policies.