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(Un)Safe Harbour: Stop! Or the Court of Justice will shoot
In the following post, Diana Dimitrova of the KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law, discusses the implications of the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (ECJ) ruling that the Safe Harbour scheme is invalid, and looks at the powers of national supervisory authorities in ensuring compliance with the rights to privacy and data protection
Biometrics Please! Automated Border Controls & Data Protection Obligations
Diana Dimitrova, a legal researcher at ICRI, KU Leuven, focuses on privacy, data protection, and border control in the framework of the FastPass project. In this post she argues that the automation of border control in the EU increases the data protection obligations of the respective authorities and necessitates legislative changes
Data protection: rights of passengers using Automated Border Control
As news emerges that the European Commission’s counter-terror plan will require blanket collection and storage of personal data records of all passengers flying in and out of Europe, Diana Dimitrova from KU Leuven returns to discuss rights of passengers using Automated Border Control. The passenger rights discussed here have broader implications for all data subject to the Data Retention Directive
The Willems judgment: CJEU’s missed chance to rein in biometric data usage
In her fourth post on data retention and border controls, Diana Dimitrova from KU Leuven looks at the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU) judgment in the Willems case. Diana discusses the Court’s reasoning on the applicability of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (CFREU) to the further usage of the biometrics (facial and fingerprint images) collected and stored by Member States on the chip of EU biometric passports. She also argues why more safeguards for their use are necessary
Data Protection at the Schengen borders after Paris
Diana Dimitrova of the KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law discusses the proposed amendment from December 2015 to the Schengen Borders Code (SBC), tabled in response to the Paris attacks that took place in November 2015. In this post, she examines some of the privacy and data protection issues that arise from the provisions of the proposal
Finite element reliability methods using DIANA
Finite element relia.bility methods (FERM) a.re used for the analysis of a simply supported beam with a randomly distributed elastic stiffness. Two-noded Euler beam elements have been used to model the structure. The probability of exceeding a given threshold for the deflection at a certain point is calculated via FERM. The computer implementation makes use of the DIANA 5.0 finite element code
Diana Mishkova, Beyond Balkanism. The Scholarly Politics of Region Making
Les Balkans sont devenus l’objet d’une importante littérature qui s’attache à déconstruire l’image créée par l’Occident. En mettant l’accent sur les représentations populaires, ces études se basent sur des fictions littéraires et cinématographiques, textes journalistiques, récits de voyageurs, documents politiques et diplomatiques, etc. Ainsi, le balkanisme scientifique semble moins exploré. L’historienne Diana Mishkova se donne donc comme objectif de proposer « une reconstruction historique ..
Observatorio de bibliometría y cienciometría USTA Métricas de autor FICHA BIBLIOMÉTRICA Diana Maite Bayona Aristizabal
Informe de las métricas de autor de la Dra. Diana Maite Bayona Aristizabal de las
publicaciones indexadas en Google Académico cuyo objetivo es entregar un insumo
para el fortalecimiento de las capacidades y potencialidades de los autores de la
Universidad Santo Tomás en el posicionamiento y visibilidad de sus publicaciones.Report of the author metrics of Diana Maite Bayona Aristizabal of the publications
indexed in Google Scholar whose objective is to provide an input for the
strengthening of the capacities and potentialities of the authors of the Santo Tomás
University in the positioning and visibility of their publications.http://unidadinvestigacion.usta.edu.c
Interview of author Rick Riordan
Rick Riordan, author of the "Tres Navarre" series of detective novels, talks about his teaching and writing careers, his life in San Antonio, and the need to write authentically about real places, people, language, culture, and history. He discusses his characters and the situations in which he places them, his own limits in writing about social injustice from which he has not suffered, but being familiar with life in San Antonio and the multicultural environment in the community. Riordan is also known for writing the "Percy Jackson & the Olympians" series. Riordan is interviewed by Diana Rivera at the 2005 Left Coast Crime Conference held in El Paso, Texas
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