The impact of privacy and cybersecurity on e-record: The PNR Directive Adoption and the impact of GDPR

Andrea Chiappetta, Andrea Battaglia
2018 Journal of Sustainable Development of Transport and Logistics  
Digital transformation means radically change how we manage interaction with everything, including goods, persons and data flows. Cyberspace is by nature borderless and open to everybody, and any sensitive personal info passing through it should be appropriately managed to ensure the protection of the users' identity and other personal records. The Passenger Name Record (EU Directive 2016/681) impacts for travellers, e-wallets for online shoppers, medical e-records for patients, etc., which may
more » ... contain personal information provided by the users and collected by the service providers during the on-line transaction. While such records need to be shared for the smooth operation of the provided service, evidence shows that such sharing does not always respect the privacy of the data subjects. This paper address this challenge by proposing a comprehensive solution to safeguard and protect such on-line info and to preserve and protect the users' privacy (GDPR) in order to improve the cybersecurity aspects at EU level with a focus on transports and blockchain.
doi:10.14254/jsdtl.2018.3-3.6 fatcat:yyrt7jm3pvbqzkj4cu6mq7oc5e