This book explores the complexity and depths of our digital world by providing a selection of analyses and discussions from the 16th annual international conference on Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP): Ideas that Drive Our Digital World.

The first half of the book focuses on issues related to the GDPR and data. These chapters provide a critical analysis of the 5-year history of the complex GDPR enforcement system, covering: codes of conduct as a potential co-regulation instrument for the market; an interdisciplinary approach to privacy assessment on synthetic data; the ethical implications of secondary use of publicly available personal data; and automating technologies and GDPR compliance.

The second half of the book shifts focus to novel issues and ideas that drive our digital world. The chapters offer analyses on social and environmental sustainability of smart cities; reconstructing states as information platforms; stakeholder identification using the example of video-based Active and Assisted Living (AAL); and a human-centred approach to dark patterns.

This interdisciplinary book takes readers on an intellectual journey into a wide range of issues and cutting-edge ideas to tackle our ever-evolving digital landscape.

Hideyuki Matsumi is a doctoral researcher at Law Science, Technology and Society (LSTS), Belgium.
Dara Hallinan is a legal academic at FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany.
Diana Dimitrova is a post-doctoral researcher at FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany.
Eleni Kosta is Professor of Technology Law and Human Rights at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
Paul De Hert is Professor of Law at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.