Tiago Manuel Freire

I'm part of the INESC TEC Data Protection Group. My activities are focused on information management and risk assessment in the post GDPR context.

I graduated in Information Science from the University of Porto in 2014. This course is the result of a partnership between the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Letters of that University. I also completed my Master's Degree in Information Science at the same Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto in 2019.

My master's thesis, entitled " A Contribution for an Online One-Stop Shop Model: The Case of Municipal Urbanistic Processes Management", addresses the urbanistic management operations processes and the info-communicational flows in the municipal one-stop shop.

My main topics of interest are Information Management, Privacy and Data Protection, Risk Analysis and Management and Digital Preservation.

Domains

Data Protection Officer

Projects

CONVERGE

CONVERGE is an Horizon Europe project started on February 2023 and the main objective is the development of an innovative toolset aligned with the motto “view-to-communicate and communicate-to-view”. This toolset is a world-first and consists of vision-aided large intelligent surfaces, vision-aided fixed and mobile base stations, a vision-radio simulator and 3D environment modeler, and machine learning algorithms for multimodal data including radio signals, video streams, RF sensing, and traffic traces. CONVERGE will also provide the scientific community with open datasets of experimental and simulated data obtained with the toolset in the RIs, meet scientific and industrial requirements by addressing relevant 6G verticals, enhance the competitiveness of the involved companies, extend the European influence to world-wide recognized RIs, enable the creation of new RIs, contribute to the development of new environment-friendly tools, and help European Union to address its societal challenges.

Centres

Data Protection Officer

Today’s society is characterised by digitalisation and hyperconnectivity; data has become a crucial asset for organisations, many of which consist of personal data. The law imposes significant responsibilities on their processing, applying to their activities in a cross-cutting manner. At INESC TEC, these responsibilities primarily stem from research and development, but also extend to other activities common to most organisations, carried out by Centres and Services. Following the full implementation of the GDPR in 2018, INESC TEC decided to appoint a Data Protection Officer (DPO), supported by an internal multidisciplinary team. The Data Protection Officer has a specific legal status and plays the role of informing and advising the Board and general staff of the Institute on existing legal obligations, as well as monitoring compliance with applicable data protection legislation and the internal procedures that implement it. The DPO is the point of contact for the competent supervisory authorities in this area (the CNPD, in Portugal), while ensuring the fundamental rights of data subjects, whether they are employees or others who collaborate with the Institute.