General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

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Past Event

Past Event

Future of data economy: a conversation with Thierry Breton and Maximilian Schrems

How will the data travel between the EU and the US in the aftermath of the Schrems II ruling?

Speakers: Thierry Breton, J. Scott Marcus and Maximilian Schrems Topic: Digital economy and innovation Location: Bruegel, Rue de la Charité 33, 1210 Brussels Date: November 24, 2020
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Blog Post

Big data versus COVID-19: opportunities and privacy challenges

All available resources need to be brought to bear on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. To what extent can digital technology help? What risks are there in using big data to combat COVID-19, and what policies can mitigate any limitations that these risks impose?

By: J. Scott Marcus and Bruegel Topic: Digital economy and innovation Date: March 23, 2020
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Book/Special report

A post-Brexit agreement for research and innovation

This report sets out what the Wellcome Trust and Bruegel have learned from a project to simulate a negotiation process between the UK and EU to create a post-Brexit research and innovation agreement. Our negotiating scenario assumed that the UK had left the EU with a withdrawal agreement, and that the negotiation was taking place during a ‘standstill’ transition period.

By: Michael Leigh, Beth Thompson, Reinhilde Veugelers and alihan Topic: Digital economy and innovation, Macroeconomic policy Date: January 28, 2020
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Opinion

Banking, FinTech, Big Tech: Emerging challenges for financial policymakers

FinTech and Big Tech firms are both increasingly stepping on banks’ traditional turf. This column introduces the 22nd Geneva Report on the World Economy, which looks at the challenges generated by new technology-enabled entrants to the global banking industry and the public authorities that oversee it. It argues that to respond adequately to the FinTech/Big Tech challenge, authorities will need to raise their game and enter uncharted territories.

By: Kathryn Petralia, Thomas Philippon, Tara Rice and Nicolas Véron Topic: Banking and capital markets Date: September 26, 2019