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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, […]
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 […]
25/05/2023
5 years of the GDPR: A call for sustainability
Today we celebrate 5 years of GDPR enforcement, the “birthday” of our revolutionary European legal data protection framework. Each year, I look forward to this anniversary and take time to reflect on the past, present, and future of data protection. While criticizing enforcement of the GDPR seems to be in vogue as of late, I […]
14/06/2022
Serious Privacy Podcast appearance – “The fourth leg of ESG: a Privacy Framework”
I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool for the Serious Privacy podcast, check out the episode here! During the podcast we discuss my research on the topic of Data Protection as a Corporate Social Responsibility which aims to improve data protection and data security for a […]
23/05/2022
“ADVANCED CYBERSECURITY AND GLOBAL CYBERSECURITY STRATEGY” COURSE WEEK 6: Tutorial #7
Today marks the final tutorial in the “Advanced Cybersecurity and Global Cybersecurity Strategy” course at the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC)! The course has truly flown by! Following Mika Lauhde’s lecture on cybersecurity and 5G networks, in today’s tutorial, students will briefly discuss the cybersecurity evolution of 2G, 3G, 4G and LTE networks, also touching […]
19/05/2022
“ADVANCED CYBERSECURITY AND GLOBAL CYBERSECURITY STRATEGY” COURSE WEEK 6: Cybersecurity and 5G networks
We’re kicking off the sixth and final week of the “Advanced Cybersecurity and Global Cybersecurity Strategy” course with a lecture from Mika Lauhde on Cybersecurity and 5G networks. Today our students of the Advanced Master in Privacy, Cybersecurity, Data Management and Leadership LLM at the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC) will take a deep […]
16/05/2022
“ADVANCED CYBERSECURITY AND GLOBAL CYBERSECURITY STRATEGY” COURSE WEEK 5: Tutorial #6
It’s tutorial time! This afternoon Mika Lauhde will guide our students of the “Advanced Cybersecurity and Global Cybersecurity Strategy” course at the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC) in the weekly tutorial session. During the tutorial, students will envision that they represent a European company purchasing an AI firewall to defend their critical infrastructure and assets. Accordingly, […]
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 […]
09/05/2022
“ADVANCED CYBERSECURITY AND GLOBAL CYBERSECURITY STRATEGY” COURSE WEEK 4: TUTORIAL #5
It’s Monday and that means it’s tutorial time with Prof. Giampaolo Bella in the “Advanced Cybersecurity and Global Cybersecurity Strategy” course within the Advanced Master in Privacy, Cybersecurity, Data Management and Leadership LLM at the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC)! In today’s tutorial, students will be presented with a scenario in which an institution hires […]
05/05/2022
“ADVANCED CYBERSECURITY AND GLOBAL CYBERSECURITY STRATEGY” COURSE WEEK 4: Cybersecurity in the Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Infrastructures
This afternoon Professor Giampaolo Bella will lecture on Cybersecurity in the Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Infrastructures for our students of the “Advanced Cybersecurity and Global Cybersecurity Strategy” course within the Advanced Master in Privacy, Cybersecurity, Data Management and Leadership LLM at the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC)! During this fourth week of the course, we […]