Prof. Francisco António Carneiro Pacheco de Andrade is a Professor of Law at Universidade do Minho School of Law. He is the Director of the Master Course on Law and Informatics where he teaches subjects such as "Electronic Commerce and Electronic Contracting", "Cryptography, Identification and Documents" and "Privacy and Data Protection". He is an integrated research member of the Research Center JusGov - Research Center in Justice and Governance. He is author of papers in the domains of electronic commerce and electronic contracting, electronic identification, electronic signatures, electronic documents, electronic government and online dispute resolution.
Prof. Pedro Miguel Fernandes Freitas is a Professor of Law at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal, where he teaches and researches on Law and Technology, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure. He currently leads different academic programs on Law and Technology, both at an undergraduate and postgraduate level, at the same university. He is also the director of the Lusophone Institute for Law and Criminology, a large-scale association that fosters research on Law and Criminology in Portuguese-speaking countries.
Prof. Joana Rita de Sousa Covelo de Abreu is a Professor of European Union law at the University of Minho - School of Law, Portugal and an integrated research member of JusGov. She acts within the European Union Law, namely devoting her attention to EU Procedure, Data Transfer and Interoperability within European e-Government and e-Justice paradigms. She was the Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Module eUjust - "EU Procedure and credits' claims: approaching electronic solutions under e-Justice paradigm" (until 2022). She was an appointed expert to the modernization of judicial cooperation in civil matters (DG Justice and Consumers - European Commission), in 2018, namely concerning discussing Commission's proposals on taking of evidence and service of documents' Regulations. She is Editor of UNIO - EU Law Journal and its official blog "Thinking & Debating Europe - The official blog of UNIO".

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Legal Developments on Cybersecurity and Related Fields: Introductory notes and presentation.- PART I - CYBERSECURITY, CYBERDEFENCE AND LAW.- Getting critical. Making sense of the EU security framework for cloud providers.- Cyber operations targeting space systems. Legal questions and the context of privatisation.- A legal assessment of the concept of risk in reversible operations through cyber and electronic means.- Knowledge management and continuous improvement in cyberspace.- Information security metrics: challenges and models in an all-digital world.- Cyberterrorism and the Portuguese counter-terrorism act.- PART II - CYBERSECURITY AND LAW: SPECIFIC TOPICS.- Towards cybersecurity regulation of software in the European Union.- The importance of the computer undercover agent as an investigative measure against cybercrime: a special reference to child pornography crimes.- Post-Mortem data protection and succession in digital assets under Spanish law.- The suitability of the regime oftechnological measures for copyright protection in the face of modern cybersecurity risks.- Digital signatures and quantum computing.- No words needed? Emojis as evidence in judicial proceedings.- PART III - CYBERSECURITY, ETHICS AND FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS.- Bug bounties: ethical and legal aspects.- Profiling and cybersecurity: a perspective from fundamental rights' protection in the EU.- Legal developments on smart public governance and fundamental rights in the digital age.- Biometric signatures in the context of Regulation (EU) nr. 910/2014 and the general data protection regulation: the evidential value and anonymization of biometric data.- Cybersecurity issues in electronic communications and some insights on digital literacy and technological infrastructures' demands - anticipations of the European Digital Decade through the lens of a Declaration on digital rights and principles.