Magdalena Brewczyńska

Bio

Magdalena (Magda) Brewczynska is a PhD researcher at Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT). She holds an LL.M. (cum laude) in Law & Technology from Tilburg University (2018) and a Master’s degree in Law obtained at Jagiellonian University in Cracow (2015).

Her research interests encompass privacy, data protection and cybersecurity, as well European criminal law and Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing policies.

In the PhD project, she examines the legal uncertainties arising from the practices of sharing personal data between the private sector and public law enforcement authorities in a view of the existence of two distinct regimes for the protection of personal data, namely the general regime, governed by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the regime applicable to the processing of personal data by competent authorities for law enforcement purposes, regulated in Directive (EU) 2016/680 (the Police Directive).

Teaching

2018/2019

• Capita Selecta Privacy and Data Protection - Teaching Assistant
• Master's thesis supervision - TFG: Crime and Security in the Information Age

2019/2020

• Capita Selecta Privacy and Data Protection - Teaching Assistant
• Data science: sustainability, privacy and security - Guest Lecturer

2020/2021

• Capita Selecta Privacy and Data Protection - Teaching Assistant 
• Data science: sustainability, privacy and security - Guest Lecturer
• Master's thesis supervision - TFG/IT: Selected issues of data protection 

Courses

• Data science: sustainability, privacy and security

Collaboration

Collaboration with Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von Kriminalität, Sicherheit und Recht) on the ParTFin Project “Public-Private Partnerships on Terrorism Financing” (call ISFP-2017-AG-TERFIN)

Recent publications

1. European Commission v Spain: Heavy Financial Sanctions and Missed Opp…

   Brewczyńska, M. (2021). European Commission v Spain: Heavy Financial Sanctions and Missed Opportunity to Clarify the Importance of Data Protection Rules in the Law Enforcement Context. EDPL, 7(2), 336-342. https://edpl.lexxion.eu/article/EDPL/2021/2/26

2. Poland - Policing quarantine via app

   Brewczyńska, M. (2020). Poland: Policing quarantine via app. In L. Taylor, G. Sharma, A. Martin, & S. Jameson (Eds.), Data justice and COVID-19: Global perspectives (pp. 232-239). Meatspace Press.

3. Poland. The Polish government's actions to fight Covid-19 - A critica…

   Brewczyńska, M. (2020). Poland. The Polish government's actions to fight Covid-19: A critical look at the ‘selfie app’ and direct access to location data. EDPL, 6(2), 301-307.

4. Data privacy laws response to ransomware attacks - A multi-jurisdicti…

   Brewczyńska, M., Dunn, S., & Elijahu, A. (2019). Data privacy laws response to ransomware attacks: A multi-jurisdictional analysis. In L. Reins (Ed.), Regulating new technologies in uncertain times (pp. 281-305). (Information Technology and Law Series; Vol. 2019, No. 32). TMC Asser Press | Springer.

5. Government access to user data - Towards more meaningful transparency…

   Kosta, E., & Brewczyńska, M. (2019). Government access to user data: Towards more meaningful transparency reports. In R. Ballardini, P. Kuoppamäki, & O. Pitkänen (Eds.), Regulating industrial internet through IPR, data protection and competition law (pp. 253-274). KLUWER LAW INT.