The Regulation of Digital Technologies in the EU: Act-ification, GDPR Mimesis and EU Law Brutality at...

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Vagelis Papakonstantinou Paul De Hert

The Regulation of Digital Technologies in the EU

Act-ification, GDPR Mimesis and EU Law Brutality at Play

Vagelis Papakonstantinou, Paul De Hert

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Routledge
19 March 2024

Politics & government; Systems of law; Law & society; IT & Communications law

Series: Routledge Research in the Law of Emerging Technologies

EU regulatory initiatives concerning technology-related topics have spiked over the past few years. On the basis of its Priorities Programme, which is focused on making Europe ‘Fit for the Digital Age’, the European Commission has been busily releasing new texts aimed at regulating a number of technology topics, including data uses, online platforms, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence.

This book identifies three phenomena which are common to all EU digital technologies-relevant regulatory initiatives: act-ification, GDPR mimesis, and regulatory brutality. These three phenomena serve as indicators or early signs of a new European technology law-making paradigm that now seems ready to emerge. They divulge new-found confidence on the part of the EU digital technologies legislator, who has now asserted for itself the right to form policy options and create new rules in the field for all of Europe.

Bringing together an analysis of the regulatory initiatives for the management of technology topics in the EU for the first time, this book will be of interest to academics, policymakers, and practitioners, sparking academic and policymaking interest and discussion.

By: Vagelis Papakonstantinou, Paul De Hert
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 440g
ISBN: 9781032614441
ISBN 10: 1032614447
Series: Routledge Research in the Law of Emerging Technologies
Pages: 138
Publication Date: 19 March 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements vii List of abbreviations viii 1 Introduction 1 PART 1 The change of paradigm in the EU’s regulation of digital technologies: ‘act-ification’ at play 13 2 Popular names instead of alphanumeric titles for EU laws regulating digital technologies 15 3 The titles of EU legal acts 22 4 Is act-ification useful? 28 PART 2 ‘GDPR mimesis’ in (all?) EU regulatory initiatives related to digital technologies 39 5 ‘GDPR mimesis’: has the success of the GDPR dulled the EU legislator’s imagination? 41 6 The EU data protection model and its embodiment in the GDPR 54 7 Is GDPR mimesis useful for the regulation of digital technologies? 64 PART 3 The ‘brutality’ of EU legislation on new digital technologies 71 8 The ‘regulatory brutality’ of EU law when regulating digital technologies 73 9 Basic principles of EU law and the regulation of digital technologies 85 10 Why is regulatory brutality a problem when regulating digital technologies in the EU? 95 PART 4 A new paradigm for EU law 105 11 The current reality of digital technologies in Europe 107 12 The European way for the digital age 120 Index 135

Vagelis Papakonstantinou is Professor of Personal Data Protection Law at the Faculty of Law & Criminology of the Free University of Brussels (VUB, Vrije Universiteit Brussel), focusing on cybersecurity, intellectual property and the broader topic of technology regulation. He works through the Cyber and Data Security Lab, for which he is the scientific coordinator, as well as through VUB’s Research Group on Law Science Technology & Society (LSTS) and the Brussels Privacy Hub. Paul de Hert is Professor at the Faculty of Law & Criminology at the VUB and an associate professor at the Law School/Tilburg Institute for Law and Technology (TILT), University of Tilburg. He is Director of the VUB’s Research Group on Human Rights, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law & Criminology, and a former director of the LSTS and of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Law.