Cookies and Privacy Protection Online
Thursday, 08 October 2020
Check how much you know about #cookies and #privacyprotection online. What you really need to know by Vasiliki (Vicky) P. Tatsi in less than 3 mins #privacylaw #dataprotection #databreach #websitedevelopment #onlinemarketing
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Stay Home and use your digital signature
Monday, 08 June 2020
#stayhome and use your digital signature instead: a step by step guide on how to create a digital signature, in times of #covid19 and beyond. Please don’t forget to check the link in the first comment for further information http://www.aped.gov.gr/images/TOKENS_08_11_2018.pdf #menoumespiti#covid19#workfromhome#digitalsignatures#digitalsignature
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Covid-19 poll out on Competition Law
Thursday, 23 April 2020
At a time when the economy is hit hard, competition rules increasingly play a central role in guaranteeing a level playing field between businesses.In view of developments on national level and following EU practices in cooperation with the European Competition Network (ECN), the Hellenic Competition Commission issued a Press Release on March 7th 2020, indicating
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Cybersecurity in the time of COVID –19
Tuesday, 07 April 2020
As governments and businesses work intensively on mitigating the impact of the new COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing measures have led to an increase in remote working across all sectors. Although remote work, when such is possible, is a necessary precaution measure during the pandemic, it does create new legal challenges. Some of these challenges include:
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March 2020: Is COVID-19 a force majeure in contractual relations?
Tuesday, 31 March 2020
1) What do we call Force Majeure? What are its implications for contracts? According to Greek law, the term “act of God, force majeure”, is characterized by any unpredictable and extraordinary event which man, in the natural course of things, cannot foresee and prevent by extreme diligence and the prudence of an average. For example,
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COVID-19 and Employees’ Personal Data
Thursday, 19 March 2020
In the midst of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic and in an effort to limit and delay its spread, many companies are already processing various, new to date for businesses, personal data categories, including special categories of personal data, such as health data . The key issue that arises, however, relates to the extent and nature
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Artificial Intelligence and Facial Recognition
Friday, 13 March 2020
Main risks related to the use of Artificial Intelligence → fundamental rights, including personal data and privacy protection and non-discrimination
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can perform many functions that previously could only be done by humans. As a result, citizens and legal entities will be increasingly subject to actions and decisions taken by or with
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Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Protection: Where do we stand?
Friday, 21 February 2020
Artificial intelligence and the application of AI in modern life has brought ground-braking changes in modern life, while newest innovative technologies are yet to come. Indeed, AI is a collective expression of multiple sectors bringing together a series of technologies from machine learning systems, in which computers can function, develop and improve through experience, to
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Copyright in the digital world: what’s new?
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
The digital single market is one of European Union’s most important achievement and its best offer in times of ever greater globalization. The aim of the DSM strategy is to create an area where businesses and consumers have unrestricted access to digital goods and services all over Europe, where the free flow of data creates
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EU citizens: Are you ready for Novel Foods?
Thursday, 16 May 2019
As we continue to add new foods to our diets or introduce new ways of preparing food, consumers all around EU need to be sure that any novel food coming to our tables is safe. In this framework, we should examine the provisions of the new Novel Food Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 that is applicable as
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Extraterritorial Scope of GDPR: The effects of the Regulation on non-EU businesses
Tuesday, 02 April 2019
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is not explicitly a global law, but it might be on the way to becoming a de facto law beyond the boundaries of Europe, at least for a number of businesses. GDPR, which was enforced on the 25th of May 2018, affects all businesses based in EU territory acting as
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Genomic data and the European Declaration on Cross-Border Access to the Genomic Database
Friday, 16 November 2018
The term ‘genome’ is defined by the scientific community as the entirety of the genetic material (genes) found in a cell or carried by a person. The genome determines a person’s characteristics, such as hair and eye color, or even his/her predisposition to certain diseases, such as diabetes, cancer, asthma and many other illnesses and
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