LSTS

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 1 June

Launch of the Awareness Raising Campaign for SMEs (ARC) project

[Project] A new project co-funded by the European Union under the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme, ARC: (Awareness Raising Campaign for SMEs) has been launched on 1 st March 2020. ARC is...

Thursday 28 May

PERSONA Training on the Concept of Impact Assessment

Between 18 and 27 May 2020, the Brussels Laboratory for Data Protection & Privacy Impact Assessments ( d.pia.lab ) – a sub-group within the VUB-LSTS – has delivered a training on the concept of...

Wednesday 27 May

Release of the 2nd Edition of the Handbook on Data Protection in Humanitarian Action

[Publication and event] Upon the occasion of the release of the second edition of the Data Protection Handbook for Humanitarian Action, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has...

Monday 25 May

Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt on 'Machines in the Loop: Smart for Whom?'

On 26 May 2020, a couple of weeks after Google announced its withdrawal from the Sidewalk Toronto Smart City project, Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt will speak at a panel, revisiting the Sidewalk Project...

Friday 22 May

Implementation of the European Small Claims Procedure in Belgium (Webinar, 26 May 2020)

[Webinar] On 26 May 2020 (16:00-17:20 CEST), the SCAN-Project together with the VUB will host a webinar on ' Implementation of the European Small Claims Procedure in Belgium: Challenges and...

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Upcoming events

Monday 8 June from 12:30 to 13:30

Brussels Privacy Hub - Doctoral seminar with Irene Kamara on 'Misaligned Union laws? A comparative analysis of private law instruments in the Cybersecurity Act and the General Data Protection Regulation'

This seminar is part of the Brussels Privacy Hub doctoral seminar series. For more information see here . It will be held online. In 2019, the Cybersecurity Act, the EU law aiming at achieving high...

From Monday 22 June at 9:00 to Friday 26 June at 18:00

Summer Academy for Global Privacy Law 2020

The Summer Academy for Global Privacy Law 2020 offers a unique programme on international and European privacy and data protection law, made available from Brussels to participants all over the world...

Thursday 10 September from 9:00 to 17:00

Final Conference on Small Claims Dispute Resolution for Consumers: A European Approach

Final Conference on Small Claims Dispute Resolution for Consumers - A European Approach ( 10/09/2020)* University deli Studi di Napoli Federico II and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) are pleased to...

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