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Álvaro Merino

About Álvaro Merino

Álvaro Merino is a Spanish data journalist working for El Orden Mundial. He is mainly interested in social issues (migration) and the European Union.

Russia wants your data: cyber attacks are growing in the European Union

By |2023-05-10T14:06:22+01:00March 8th, 2022|Tags: , , |

The shadow of Russia has always loomed over the internet, but the pandemic, which moved citizen’s lives into the digital sphere, saw a rise in security breaches within European businesses and institutions. Cyber attacks against key European sectors doubled in 2020. Although Brussels is working to plug the gaps, the invasion of Ukraine threatens to intensify the cyber war.

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Citizens’ distrust and lack of consensus: what led to the fiasco of contact tracing apps

By |2023-04-04T02:57:45+01:00January 5th, 2022|Tags: , , |

European countries have spent months debating what to do with data collected through contact tracing apps. A lack of consensus, as well as the launch of new systems by Apple and Google, lessened the chances of a unified protocol among the bloc. What is clear is that Europe always prioritised the data protection of its own users.

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ENISA: The cornerstone of the EU’s cybersecurity strategy

By |2023-05-10T14:07:24+01:00December 13th, 2021|Tags: , |

The Cybersecurity Agency has been tasked with building a common defence, without any faults, against cyberattacks in the EU. While it seemed like an uphill struggle at first, restructure after restructure has built it into an organisation at the forefront of fighting Brussels’ war on cybercriminals.

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Brussel’s plan to protect the EU from cyberattacks

By |2023-05-10T14:07:49+01:00December 2nd, 2021|Tags: , |

The Covid-19 crisis has turned us into a digital society. Large parts of our day-to-day lives now take place in the digital sphere and this has made Member States much more vulnerable to cyberattacks. To neutralise them, the European Commission launched its new Cybersecurity Strategy in December 2020.

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The EU faces off with Big Tech: GDPR’s enforcement enters its final phase

By |2023-04-04T02:48:10+01:00November 15th, 2021|Tags: , , |

Member states have imposed eight hundred and eighty sanctions since the law was introduced in May 2018, but the war against the tech giants has just begun. If the EU wants to win it, it will need to commit to it with greater investment and cooperation from all its members.

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Europe is no longer afraid of nationalising companies

By |2023-04-04T02:41:51+01:00May 31st, 2021|Tags: |

Nationalising companies is no longer a taboo topic for the European Union's state members. After the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st-century privatisations, the economic crisis of 2008 gave a central role back to State ownership. The COVID-19 outbreak has opened the leading European companies' doors to the public capital.

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