On the 2nd of July, SMOOTH and five other European Projects, DEFEND, PAPAYA, POSEIDON, PDP4E, and BPR4GDPR, hold their second official cluster meeting. The 6 Horizon 2020 projects decided to collaborate together to work on their common goal: Raise awareness of the GDPR. What started with joint meeting and dissemination activities emerged to form…
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On the 13 and 14 of June, the SMOOTH presented its project at the Annual Privacy Forum in Rome. Organized by ENISA, the European Commission DG CONNECT, the University of Rome Tor Vergata and LUISS University, the two-day conference focused Data Privacy, Innovation and legal framework. SMOOTH had its own stand on the conference premises…
DetailsStruggling with the GDPR and could not attend our webinar on the main GDPR aspects for small companies? No worries! You can still check our two legal experts presentation here:
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Partner responsible/main author: UC3M Authors: Antonio Pastor, Matti Pärssinen, Patricia Callejo, Pelayo Vallina, Rubén Cuevas, Ángel Cuevas, Mikko Kotila, Arturo Azcorra Published in: The Web Conference, ACM Invalid ad traffic is an inherent problem of programmatic advertising that has not been properly addressed so far. Traditionally, it has been considered that invalid ad traffic only…
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As a micro-enterprise you are close to your clients and trust and confidence are key in your relationship with them. Thanks to these relationships, your clients and your entrepreneurship, you and other European small and medium-sized enterprises add more than 20% of value to the European economy [1], for a total amount of 1,525 trillion…
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Are you an SME? Do you want your company to adopt and be compliant with the GDPR? SMOOTH partners are organizing a webinar to explain main key issues regarding the regulation and how to join the SMOOTH pilot program, a great opportunity for companies to test the SMOOTH platform and get one year free services…
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Most of the small European companies store their operational data using different databases. Those databases can start from a simple Excel file in a physical shop that only needs the contacts of its providers, but they can also be complex MySQL structures, a Relational Database Management server which manages many databases at the same time.…
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Well, that is exactly why they call the “I read and accept” the biggest lie on the web. Research has shown that if an average American would read all the privacy policies of websites she visits, she would spend 244 hours a year just doing that [1]. Even more, to do so, you need an…
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This week (15 to 19 of April) SMOOTH had the opportunity to be featured on Cyberwatching.eu website and social media as the ‘Project of the week’. Cyberwatching.eu is the European observatory of research and innovation in the field of cybersecurity and privacy. Cyberwatching.eu is the European observatory of research and innovation in the field of cybersecurity…
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Several months have passed since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been implemented and you probably already know what it is. But, how is your company doing regarding it? What does the GDPR really represent? GDPR redefines how data should be collected, stored and shared across every sector, from healthcare to banking and beyond,…
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