We would like to congratulate Konrad Kollnig for receiving the Stefano Rodotà Award for his thesis (“Regulatory technologies for the study of data and platform power in the app economy“). This thesis conducts a technological and legal study into mobile apps on how to improve data protection in practice.

About Konrad Kollnig:

Konrad Kollnig is assistant professor at the Law & Tech Lab of Maastricht University’s Law Faculty and associate researcher at the Open Data Institute.

About the award:

This prize is awarded in honour and memory of Stefano Rodotà. He was a leading Italian law professor and politician who worked throughout his life to promote fundamental rights, particularly for the development and implementation of the right to data protection in Europe.