“Regulatory sandboxes” is a concept mainly associated with the Fintech sector. It was originally developed to represent the creation of safe spaces for testing new products and services, under regulatory supervision, and excluded from the applicable legal and regulatory requirements. However, this concept soon evolved and, in many countries, such as within the European Union,…

An increasing number of states are developing plans for setting-up spaceports, with suborbital flights and small satellites taking the center stage. In Europe, Portugal has been taking relevant steps, as it approved its Space Strategy 2030 on March 12, 2018. The country also approved the Space Act at the Council of Ministers, is setting up…

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is finally here. After a two year “grace period” where companies were given the time to adapt, it came into force last May 25. It has been a very challenging period for companies: indeed, the GDPR brings a set of changes to the European rules on the processing of…

Outer space is not oblivious to blockchain, and neither is blockchain oblivious to outer space. Quite the contrary, both of them are intrinsically connected in more ways than thought at first.