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LAW, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY (LSTS) RESEARCH GROUP

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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. 

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Thursday 1 September

LSTS researchers speak at the 17th IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management (30 August – 2 September 2022)

The 17th IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management takes place virtually from 30 August to 2 September 2022. The detailed programme can be found here : This year many LSTS researchers...

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Monday 22 August

Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt elected as a Fellow of the British Academy

In July 2022, Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt has been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy , she is honoured to be part of this venerable institution and delighted to take part in a body focused on...

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Thursday 30 June

Tatiana Duarte spoke on Compliance by Design v. Legal Protection by Design (29 June 2022)

The word compliance entered our daily vocabulary, pervading the regulatory strategy and discourse in the European Union law. But what does it mean? What is its role in the legal system? Can it be...

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Tuesday 28 June

Dr. Joanna Mazur visits LSTS

In June dr Joanna Mazur from the University of Warsaw visited LSTS. Dr Mazur presented her current work on data protection and cross-border transfers in regional trade agreements in a WRG session...

Tatiana Duarte
Tuesday 28 June

Tatiana Duarte spoke on Google and Apple Exposure Notifications System at Kozminski University (24 June 2022)

In April 2020 Google and Apple announced a joint project under whose constraints countries could develop proximity tracing apps, called Exposure Notifications (EN). By using this framework, proximity...

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Thursday 13 October from 15:00 to 16:30

Surveillance for Development? Implications of Surveillance-oriented Citizen Identification Systems in Global South countries

Increasingly, citizen identification systems that are digital, biometric and interoperable are being introduced in Global South countries in the name of development. The assumption or fact that the...

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Thursday 1 December from 17:00 to 18:30

Book Club #9 - Invisible Women & asynchronous movie watching

Our next Book Club will be concluding two years of activities, giving us the opportunity to discuss fiction, non-fiction, poetry, movies, documentaries, paintings and what not! The final Book Club...

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Wednesday 14 December from 14:00 to 15:30

Policing with the drone: Towards an aerial geopolitics of security

This seminar explores in empirical detail the air-bound expectations, imaginations and practices arising from the acquisition of a new police drone in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel. It shows how...

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