CSR Updates

June 2024The first UM-DPCSR Coordinator and Auditor Courses will be held in Maastricht
February 2024Permanent Stakeholder Group meetings will recommence
December 2023Data Protection as a Corporate Social Responsibility”, authored by Paolo Balboni and Kate Francis, was published by Edward Elgar 
6 September 2023ECPC held the “Data Protection as a Corporate Social Responsibility (DPCSR): A Digital Pact for Privacy and Cybersecurity as Social Responsibilities” event at the Maastricht University Faculty of Law. ECPC also launched the Digital Pact for Privacy and Cybersecurity as Social Responsibilities which was signed by nearly 40 individuals at the Chateau Neercanne in Maastricht. 
14 March 2023The first meeting of the UM-DPCSR Permanent Stakeholder Group was held online
23 May 2022Maastricht University Data Protection as a Corporate Social Responsibility Framework presented at the 15th edition of the prestigious international Computers, Privacy & Data Protection conference (CPDP 2022)
16 March 2022First official output of Research Project published
9 March 2022DPCSR Update sent to stakeholders for final contributions and feedback
January 2022ENISA’s publication entitled “Data Protection Engineering from Theory to Practice” mentions ECPC data protection icons
31 December 2021Research Project officially concludes
15 December 2021The European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC) Data Protection Icons win “Easy privacy information via icons? Yes, you can!”: transparency contest organized by the Italian Data Protection Authority
9 December 2021Final Data Protection as a Corporate Social Responsibility Stakeholder Conference Call Year II
27 October 20215th Data Protection as a Corporate Social Responsibility Stakeholder Conference Call Year II
4 October 2021DPCSR Update sent to stakeholders
6 July 20214th Data Protection as a Corporate Social Responsibility Stakeholder Conference Call Year II
23 June 2021DPCSR Update sent to stakeholders
26 May 20213rd Data Protection as a Corporate Social Responsibility Stakeholder Conference Call Year II
17 May 2021Survey on the Maastricht University Data Protection as a Corporate Social Responsibility (UM-DPCSR) Icons Version 1.0 to facilitate users’ understanding of how their data is used published
12 May 2021DPCSR Update sent to stakeholders
09 April 20212nd Data Protection as a Corporate Social Responsibility Stakeholder Conference Call Year II
29 March 2021DPCSR Update sent to stakeholders
11 March 2021Kick-off Meeting Phase 2 (second year of the Project)
January 2021Start of Phase 2
18 December 2020Final DPCSR Stakeholder meeting of Phase 1 (first year of Project)
04 December 2020Icons Version 1.0 sent to Data Protection Stakeholders and published on the ECPC website
27 November 2020DPCSR Update sent to Stakeholders
22 October 2020First DPCSR Manifesto published on ECPC website
DPCSR Update sent to Stakeholders
20 October 20206th Data Protection as a Corporate Social Responsibility Stakeholder Conference Call
12 October 2020DPCSR Update sent to stakeholders
October 2020Two Icon WG meetings and internal meetings of the Icon Sub-WG
18 September 20205th Data Protection as a Corporate Social Responsibility Stakeholder Conference Call
23 July 20204th Data Protection as a CSR Stakeholder Conference Call
6 July 2020DPCSR Update sent to stakeholders
17 June 2020

Mid-term Evaluation DPCSR Project

6 month milestones:
• Questionnaire: shared questionnaire with Business Stakeholders
• 3 Rules Principle: presented and preliminarily discussed with Stakeholders
• Literature: identified, shared, validated with Stakeholders
• 5 Principles: presented discussed, agreed with Stakeholders

8 May 20203th Data Protection as a CSR Stakeholder Conference Call
14 April 2020DPCSR Update sent to stakeholders
1 April 20202nd Data Protection as a CSR Stakeholder Conference Call
16 March 2020First version of the DPCSR literature review
2 March 2020Data Protection as a CSR Stakeholder Conference Call
6 February 2020Kick-off Meeting in Maastricht
January 2020Start of Project