_Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG)
28/01/2026
Data Protection Day 2026
On the occasion of Data Protection Day, I want to send you my warm greetings and share a few reflections with you. Privacy and personal data protection are undergoing a period of transformation. We are, in fact, in the midst of a substantial reform at the European level involving a wide range of regulations that […]
11/09/2025
Advancing Digital Responsibility: Highlights from our Annual Permanent Stakeholder Working Group Meeting
On 9 September 2025, at the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC), we hosted our annual onsite meeting of the Permanent Stakeholder Working Group on Data Protection & Cybersecurity as Corporate Social Responsibilities. The meeting brought together both long-standing and new members of the Group, and resulted in additional signatories to the Digital Pact, […]
16/03/2022
New ground-breaking framework for building a sustainable data-driven economy: Data Protection as a Corporate Social Responsibility
I’m extremely pleased that what I first envisioned in 2017 and presented in my inaugural lecture at Maastricht University in 2019 has taken shape – today we have published the first-ever complete CSR framework for data protection aimed at improving privacy and security for a sustainable digital future! The Maastricht University Data Protection as a Corporate Social Responsibility Framework (UM-DPCSR) is the result of the related […]
25/06/2021
Understanding stakeholder’s privacy values is at the center of Data Protection as a Corporate Social Responsibility
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of speaking at the IAPP Little Big Stage Online event on Corporate Social Responsibility and Data Protection with Jacqueline Klosek and Danielle Reyes – thank you for the active discussion! More and more, sustainability is at the forefront of corporate strategies. Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) is proving itself to be a driving force […]