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28/08/2026
Paolo Balboni’s View on WHO GETS ACCESS TO POWERFUL AI? EUROPE’S NEXT CYBERSECURITY AND SOVEREIGNTY DEBATE
A new cybersecurity question is emerging in Europe: who should be allowed to use the most powerful AI models, under what conditions, and with what safeguards? The European Commission’s AI Office is now gathering information from AI providers to prepare a blueprint on “structured access” to advanced AI for legitimate cybersecurity purposes. The initiative follows […]
26/08/2026
Paolo Balboni’s View EUROPE’S CYBERSECURITY DILEMMA: SECURITY, SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RISK OF ESCALATION
Europe’s cybersecurity debate is rapidly moving beyond technical security. It is becoming a debate about geopolitical power, economic security, technological sovereignty and the rule of law. A politically sensitive question emerges: should the European Union be able to designate an entire third country as a cybersecurity concern? Although the proposed Cybersecurity Act does not expressly […]
21/08/2026
Paolo Balboni’s View on DATA FLOWS AND AI CYBERSECURITY: EUROPE’S NEXT DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY TEST
Two apparently separate developments are currently reshaping the digital relationship between Europe, the United States and China. The first concerns the legal foundations of EU-U.S. data transfers. The second concerns the increasingly powerful role of artificial intelligence in cybersecurity. In reality, they are closely connected. Both raise the same strategic question: how dependent should Europe […]
18/08/2026
Paolo Balboni’s View on THE DELICATE BALANCE: REGULATING AI RISKS WHILE PRESERVING ECONOMIC BENEFITS
Brussels has just entered a new phase in the global artificial intelligence (AI) race. For the first time, a major regulatory authority has moved beyond writing rules for artificial intelligence and into the much harder business of enforcing them against the companies developing the world’s most powerful AI models. At the center of this effort […]
11/02/2025
The geopolitical and socio-economic impact of AI
On 11 February 2025, American Vice President JD Vance made his international debut at the Paris AI Summit with a clear message for the world: AI is not only transforming work, manufacturing, medicine, and transportation – it is reshaping geopolitics and driving enormous economic, societal, and individual impacts. The global AI race between the United […]
12/05/2022
“ADVANCED CYBERSECURITY AND GLOBAL CYBERSECURITY STRATEGY” COURSE WEEK 5: Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence
It’s already week 5 of the “Advanced Cybersecurity and Global Cybersecurity Strategy” course at the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC)! This afternoon Mika Lauhde will provide our students with a lecture on Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence. AI has multiple and diverse roles when it comes to cybersecurity. AI may be used both to compromise organisational security and […]
20/10/2020
AI & Cybersecurity: Reflections on a multidimensional relationship
Earlier this month I was a guest on Episode 47: Innovation and Tech Zoom In of the European Edition of the Breaking Banks Podcast Moderated by Ajit Tripathi. The podcast looks at “European Unicorns, Startups, Founders, Regulators and Leaders innovating the rapidly evolving Fintech scene, with some of the world’s most well-known hosts and influencers in fintech. Produced in cooperation with FintechStage.” […]
14/05/2019
Personal Data Protection as the New Competitive Edge: Generating Socially Responsible Corporate Behaviour
Last Friday I held my inaugural lecture as Professor of Privacy, Cybersecurity, and IT Contract Law at the Faculty of Law – European Centre for Privacy & Cybersecurity at Maastricht University. During my lecture I introduced the research activities that I would like to further develop at Maastricht University in a multidisciplinary setting that includes […]
08/07/2018
A.I. – Artificial Insanity: Reflections on the resilience of human intelligence by Luca Bolognini
My fellow founding Partner at ICT Legal Consulting, Luca Bolognini, recently published a fascinating book that explores the digital world through a visionary lens. The book is entitled “A.I. – Artificial Insanity: Reflections on the resilience of human intelligence” and reflects on the future of artificial intelligence in the era of the Internet of Things and Big Data […]
25/05/2018
Happy GDPR Day: The start of a new era with the General Data Protection Regulation
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Happy May 25th to everyone. Today represents the start of a new era for data protection, privacy and digital rights.