Research Line 2 of the 'Articulating Law, Technology, Ethics & Politics: Issues of Enforcement and Jurisdiction of EU Data Protection Law under and beyond the GDPR' (ALTEP-DP) project is concerned with cross-border issues related to European Union (EU) data protection law, and with how EU data protection law interacts with - and what it does to - the notion of 'border'.
Team
Former Project Members
Events
- 'Saving GDPR enforcement thanks to procedural harmonisation: Great, but how exactly?' (Brussels) (25 January 2023). See video here
- 'Power to the People! Judicial remedies & enforcement of data protection' (Brussels) (16 June 2022). Video available under 'Breakout 6'
- New frontiers in Data Rights, Workshop (6 December 2022). Summary available here:
Summary.pdf (446.16 KB) "pdf" - When privacy and data protection rule, who loses out? (25 May 2023). Panel at CPDP 2022. See video here
- 'See you in court! Discussing the potential and challenges of judicial actions for GDPR infringements'. (24 May 2022). Panel at CPDP 2022. See video here.
- 'AI and humanitarian action: Raising the standards?' Panel at CPDP2021 (Brussels) (29 January 2021). See video here.
- The GDPR and International Organisations: Issues of EU law and Public International Law Conference (26 February 2021, online event).
Selected publications
- González Fuster, G. (2023). Additional input on the initiative on procedural aspects of the GDPR.
- Christopher Kuner, 'Protecting EU data outside EU borders under the GDPR', (2023), 60, Common Market Law Review, Issue 1, pp. 77-106.
- Gonzalez Fuster, G. (2022). 'The essence of the fundamental right to data protection: Background paper commissioned by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)'. European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS).
- González Fuster, G. (2022). Data subject. In G. Comandé (Ed.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Law and Data Science (pp. 134-139). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
- Christopher Kuner (2021), Exploring the awkward secret of data transfer regulation: the EDPB Guidelines on Article 3 and Chapter V GDPR, European Law Blog, 13 December 2021.
- Christopher Kuner (2021), The Path to Recognition of Data Protection in India: The Role of the GDPR and International Standards, National Law Review of India, vol. 33 no. 1, 20 November 2021.
- Kuner, Christopher and Bygrave, Lee A. and Docksey, Christopher and Docksey, Christopher and Drechsler, Laura and Tosoni, Luca, The EU General Data Protection Regulation: A Commentary/Update of Selected Articles, 4 May 2021.
- Christopher Kuner, Territorial Scope and Data Transfer Rules in the GDPR: Realising the EU’s Ambition of Borderless Data Protection, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 20/2021, 16 April 2021.
- Christopher Kuner, 'Data crossing borders: Data Sharing and Protection in Times of Coronavirus', Verfassungsblog, 15 April 2020.
- Docksey, Christopher and Christopher Kuner, 'The Coronavirus Crisis and EU Adequacy Decisions for Data Transfers', European Law Blog, 3 April 2020.
- Christopher Kuner (2020), 'International data transfers, Standard Contractual Clauses, and the Privacy Shield: the AG Opinion in Schrems II', European Law Blog, 7 January 2020.
- González Fuster, Gloria and Sergi Vázquez Maymir (2020), ‘Cross-border Access to E-Evidence: Framing the Evidence‘, CEPS Paper in Liberty and Security, No. 2020-02, February 2020.
- Christopher Kuner, Lee Bygrave and Christopher Docksey (eds.) (2020), The EU General Data Protection Regulation: A Commentary.
- Christopher Kuner (2019), 'International Organizations and the EU General Data Protection Regulation: Exploring the Interaction between EU Law and International Law', International Organizations Law Review, 16(1), pp. 158-191.
- Stefan, Marco and Gloria González Fuster (2019), Cross-border Access to Electronic Data through Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters (2nd edition, expanded and improved), Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) (pdf).
Other relevant activities
- Gloria González Fuster is a Member of the Steering Committee of the DIGIRISE project.
- On 3 October 2023, Gloria González Fuster was invited to give a lecture on 'The right of access: How to ask for your data, and why', taking place in the context of 'Fairness, Accountability And Transparency In Data Processing' (FATE) EUTOPIA Learning Community.
- Rocco Saverino is an editorial assistant at the Mediterranea International Centre for Human Rights Research (MICHR), which aims to advance Human Rights through interdisciplinary research, scientific monitoring, and collaborative partnerships with scholars from over 100 universities, emphasizing comparative analysis and scholarly mobility.
- Rocco Saverino is a member of the Management Committee of the Data Protection Law Scholars Network, which aims to promote global collaboration among researchers in data protection law by supporting early-stage academics, encouraging diversity, and advancing the study of this field worldwide.
- On 25 May 2023, Rocco Saverino participated as a speaker in the workshop 'The State of Data Protection Law Academia', organised by DPSN. Workshop at CPDP 2023. See the video here.
- Gloria González Fuster is a reviewer of Nordic Journal on Human Rights.
- On 24 May 2023, Gloria González Fuster was invited as a discussant at CPDP 2023 Book Club on Felix Bieker's 'The right to data protection'.
- Gloria González Fuster is a member of Program and Planning Committee (PPC) in the context of Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC).
- On 23 April 2023, Gloria González Fuster was invited as an academic expert to the 9th meeting of the Multistakeholder expert group to support the application of Regulation (EU) 2016/679.
- On 6 March 2023, Gloria González Fuster participated as a speaker at the event 'Integrating a gender perspective to privacy and data', GPA Dialogue, organised by the Global Privacy Assembly. See the video here.
- On 16 February 2023, Gloria González Fuster participated as a speaker, Data, law & the technologies of gender, in the context of LAW, TECH AND THEORY RESEARCH SEMINAR.
- Christopher Kuner is editor-in-chief, International Data Privacy Law (Oxford University Press), a peer-reviewed journal that combines analytical excellence with a focus on issues of practical relevance.
- Christopher Kuner is Co-Editor, Oxford Data Protection and Privacy Law (monograph series), Oxford University Press, which aim is to publish important and original books on legal issues of data protection and privacy.
- From 15 to 23 November 2022, Christopher Kuner was also a visiting scholar at Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan.
- On 26 October 2022, Christopher Kuner was invited to give the keynote speech entitled 'Privacy and Data Protection Risks for Vulnerable Risks', taking place in the context of 44th Global Privacy Assembly.
- On 16 June 2022, Christopher Kuner participated as a speaker in the panel 'Is the grass always greener? Enforcement models in EU law', taking place in the context of EDPS Conference “Effective enforcement in the digital world”,
- On 17 March 2022, Gloria González Fuster participated as a speaker to the panel "Focus on the enforcement scheme" of "General Data Protection Regulation implementation, enforcement and lessons learned" organised by LIBE Public hearing, European Parliament. See video here
- On 20 January 2022, Christopher Kuner as author of was invited to present his paper 'Territorial Scope and Data Transfer Rules in the GDPR: Realising the EU’s Ambition of Borderless Data Protection' by giving his review alongside with the Chair and the Discussant(s), organised by Brussels Privacy Hub.
- On 10 March 2021, Christopher Kuner participated as speaker to the event 'the International Trade Committee’s second hearing on digital trade and data', organised by the House of Commons, see the video here.
- On 23 March 2021, Gloria González Fuster was invited to talk about data protection law and humanitarian action at the online SNIS March Workshop on value-senstive use of drones for humanitarian and development purposes, taking place in the context of the University of Zurich's project Responsible Humanitarian Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges: What ethical challenges exist for the use of drones in humanitarian work?, in her capacity as project's Associated Member.
- Gloria González Fuster gave a presentation on 'Data as event', together with Rocco Bellanova, at the Data Times: Immediacies, lifecycles, forgettings Final Conference, 11 December 2020; see programme here.
- On 15 October 2020, Gloria González Fuster participated to a workshop on the humanitarian use of drones taking place in the context of the University of Zurich's project Responsible Humanitarian Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges: What ethical challenges exist for the use of drones in humanitarian work?, in her capacity as project's Associated Member.
- On 10 September 2020, Gloria González Fuster participated as speaker to the event 'Covid-19 and international law: science and disinformation, exceptions and emergencies' organised by the Stockholm Centre for International Law and Justice (SCILJ); see the video of the event here.
- Gloria González Fuster was a member of the Task Force on Cross-border data access in criminal proceedings and the future of digital justice established by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), which culminated in the publication of the report Cross-border data access in criminal proceedings and the future of digital justice: Navigating the current legal framework and exploring ways forward within the EU and across the Atlantic. by Sergio Carrera, Marco Stefan and Valsamis Mitsilegas (October 2020).
- On 7 July 2020, Christopher Kuner was an invited speaker at the event ‘Data Protection in the age of COVID-19. Yesterday – Today – Tomorrow’, organised by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS).
- On 3 June 2020, Christopher Kuner was Co-Chair of the event 'Data Protection in the Time of COVID-19', celebrating the launch of the 2nd Edition of the Data Protection handbook for Humanitarian Action, organised by the International Red Cross Committee (ICRC); more information here.
- On 5 May 2020, Gloria González Fuster was an invited speaker at the 'Privacy and Individual Liberties in the COVID-19 Crisis' webinar organised by the Delegation of the European Union to Mexico, as part of the Mexico-EU Dialogue Think Tanks - Online Dialogues Series (video here).