It took a great deal of negotiation efforts, but the European Commission implementing decision on the adequacy of the protection provided by the EU-US Privacy Shield is finally out. A step the...

It was about time. Pre-internet rules on data protection were not fit for our new interconnected reality. The core institutions of the European Union have finally set in stone an agreement which...

Things for the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism are not looking good lately. The system has been strongly criticised by civil society and representatives of governments all over the...

In a nutshell On Tuesday, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued the long-awaited ruling on the case of Max Schrems, which investigated whether his right of privacy on his personal Facebook data...

On Thursday, the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates for the first time in nine years (figure 1). However, this decision is still surrounded by uncertainty. On one hand, the US economy has...

A new wave of technological changes is reshaping the manufacturing sector in its entirety. Autonomous robotics, additive manufacturing, cloud computing and sensor technology are only few of the new...