Dr. Irene Kamara is Associate Professor Cybersecurity Law and Policy , and Research Coordinator at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society in The Netherlands. She has previously worked as attorney-at-law. Irene holds a joint PhD in law from Tilburg University and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and has completed studies in law, regulation of technology, European and international relations at Tilburg University, the University of Piraeus, and the Democritus University of Thrace. In 2021, CEN and CENELEC honoured Irene with the Standards + Innovation award for the category Individual Researcher Innovator, the first legal scholar to receive this award.

A pathbreaking study of how technical standardization supplements EU data protection law, revealing both the benefits and the limits of private regulation in safeguarding the right to data protection in the EU.

• 1: Two Worlds Converging in 2015: Standardization and Data Protection 2: The Global Emergence and Evolution of Data Protection Standards 3: The Concept of a 'Technical Standard' 4: Incorporation of Technical Standards in Legal Orders 5: EU Data Protection Law as a Basis for Standardization 6: Lessons from the US: Standardization, CCPA, and COPPA 7: Procedural Legitimacy in Data Protection Standardization 8: Case Studies: Data Protection by Design, International Data Transfers, and Online Tracking Protection 9: Conclusion

Dr. Irene Kamara is Associate Professor Cybersecurity Law and Policy , and Research Coordinator at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society in The Netherlands. She has previously worked as attorney-at-law. Irene holds a joint PhD in law from Tilburg University and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and has completed studies in law, regulation of technology, European and international relations at Tilburg University, the University of Piraeus, and the Democritus University of Thrace. In 2021, CEN and CENELEC honoured Irene with the Standards + Innovation award for the category Individual Researcher Innovator, the first legal scholar to receive this award.

A pathbreaking study of how technical standardization supplements EU data protection law, revealing both the benefits and the limits of private regulation in safeguarding the right to data protection in the EU.

• 1: Two Worlds Converging in 2015: Standardization and Data Protection 2: The Global Emergence and Evolution of Data Protection Standards 3: The Concept of a 'Technical Standard' 4: Incorporation of Technical Standards in Legal Orders 5: EU Data Protection Law as a Basis for Standardization 6: Lessons from the US: Standardization, CCPA, and COPPA 7: Procedural Legitimacy in Data Protection Standardization 8: Case Studies: Data Protection by Design, International Data Transfers, and Online Tracking Protection 9: Conclusion