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PET technologies: how to use protected data in a privacy-sensitive way
As organisations seek to harness the potential of data to make decisions, innovate and improve their services, a fundamental challenge arises: how can data collection and use be balanced with respect for privacy? PET technologies attempt to address this challenge. In this post, we will explore what…
High-value meteorological datasets
The cross-cutting nature of open data on weather and climate data has favoured its use in areas as diverse as precision agriculture, fire prevention or the precision forestry. But the relevance of these datasets lies not only in their direct applicability across multiple industries, but also in thei…
Open data and climate change: essential information for a sustainable future
In recent years, climate change has become one of the most pressing challenges of our time because, according to the main reports of different international institutions, it is accelerating beyond the most pessimistic forecasts. Rising global temperatures, melting glaciers, rising sea levels and the…
Common misunderstandings in data anonymisation
Data anonymisation is a complex process and often prone to misunderstandings. In the worst case, these misconceptions lead to data leakage, directly affecting the guarantees that should be offered to users regarding their privacy.
Anonymisation aims at rendering data anonymous, avoiding the re-ident…
Data and digital transformation in the justice system
The Manifesto for a public data space has recently been published. The document raises the need to reinforce the importance of data in the current digital transformation process in this area. The document has been drawn up within the State Technical Committee of the Electronic Judicial Administratio…
Improving efficiency in the legal sector: LegalTech and data analytics
Digital transformation affects all sectors, from agriculture to tourism and education. Among its objectives is the optimization of processes, the improvement of the customer experience and even the promotion of new business models.
The legal sector is no exception, which is why in recent years…
Validation of the Royal Decree-Law on reuse of public sector information and open data
Why a Royal Decree-Law?
In the plenary session of the Congress of Deputies held on December 2, 2021, Royal Decree-Law 24/2021, of November 2, on the transposition of several European Union directives, including Directive (EU) 2019/1024 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of June 20, 2019,…
The importance of anonymization and data privacy
We are in a historical moment, where data has become a key asset for almost any process in our daily lives. There are more and more ways to collect data and more capacity to process and share it, where new technologies such as IoT, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Linked Data play a…
The data in the Digital Charter of Rights
Just a few days ago has been officially presented the Digital Charter of Rights. It is an initiative that has had a wide representation of civil society since, on the one hand, a wide and diverse work team has been in charge of its drafting and, on the other, during the procedure of its prepara…
Creative Commons licenses and general conditions for the reuse of public sector information in Spain
In the more traditional conception of the right of access and transparency of public sector entities, obtaining information requires, in advance, the processing of an administrative procedure that ends with the corresponding resolution by which the requested information is granted or denied. However…
