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Welcome to the website of the interdisciplinary Research Group on Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), focusing upon the articulations of law, science, technology, ethics and society.

News

Monday 22 November

Homo Numericus: Data Governance et Santé

The French Embassy in Belgium, AI4Belgium and the VUB are joining forces to organize a conference examining the role of data governance in the fight against epidemics. Prof. Dr. Gloria Gonzalez...

Friday 19 November

Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt keynoting at Privacy Preserving Machine Learning (PPML) Workshop at the ACM CCS 2021 Conference (19 November 2021)

This one day workshop focuses on privacy preserving techniques for training, inference, and disclosure in large scale data analysis, both in the distributed and centralized settings. Mireille...

Tuesday 16 November

Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt gives a lecture on 'How to regulate AI?' (26 November 2021)

In this lecture, she will reflect on what it means to develop legal norms to constrain the development, provision and deployment of computational systems. Legal norms are text-driven, whereas...

Thursday 4 November

Call for Applications: PhD vacancy on EU data protection law & transfers (Deadline: 18 November 2021)

The Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) Research Group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) is launching a call for applications for PhD candidates in the area of European Union (EU)...

Thursday 28 October

Privacy Camp 2022 Call for panels: Digital at the centre, rights at the Margins?

This year the Privacy Camp celebrates its 10 years of activity, and for its 10th edition invites for a forward-looking retrospective on the last decade of digital rights. This edition of the Privacy...

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Upcoming events

Wednesday 1 December from 12:00 to 14:00

Brussels Privacy Hub Guest Lecture on Digital Services Act by Diana Vlad-Calcic (Policy Officer at DG CONNECT)

The Brussels Privacy Hub gladly announces the guest lecture on the “Digital Services Act – The Challenge of Regulating Online Platforms” by Diana Vlad-Calcic from DG JUSTICE. The guest lecture is...

Wednesday 1 December from 14:00 to 15:30

VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies Seminar: Surveillance capitalism in the Global South: labor and disinformation networks

On 1 December 2021, the VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies will host a seminar on ' Surveillance capitalism in the Global South: labor and disinformation networks ' with Rafael de Almeida Evangelista...

cover of the book Flights by Olga Tokarczuk

Thursday 9 December from 17:00 to 19:00

Book Club meeting #4 - Flights by Olga Tokarczuk

Every couple months, some LSTS (and not only) colleagues meet together to discuss books! After exploring the writings of Evaristo (author of 'Girl, Woman, Other'), Makumbi (author of 'The first woman...

Tuesday 14 December from 12:30 to 13:30

Brussels Privacy Hub doctoral seminar with guest speaker Zuzanna Gulczynska (UGent) on 'International organizations and EU data protection law: what limits to the extraterritorial effect of EU law?'

The Brussels Privacy Hub (BPH) is organising a Doctoral Seminar series to give the opportunity to Ph.D. candidates working on privacy and data protection topics at the Law, Science, Technology and...

Tuesday 21 December from 9:45 to 12:00

Enforcing Europe Series: Quo vadis, data retention? The indeterminable quest for proportionality

On 21 December 2021 , the Enforcing Europe Series 2 will kick off with a hybrid roundtable entitled " Quo vadis, data retention? The indeterminable quest for proportionality ". The Series is...

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