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

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Invitation to PhD Defence
Wednesday 13 November

Amy Weatherburn: Clarifying the scope of labour exploitation in human trafficking law (Doctoral defence, 17 December 2019)

On 17 December 2019 at 10:00 a.m., Amy Weatherburn will be defending her doctoral thesis at Tilburg University . The defence will take place in the Aula of Tilburg University, Cobbenhagen building...

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Tuesday 12 November

Prof Mireille Hildebrandt public lecture @25th Anniversary TILT

Prof Mireille Hildebrandt will give a Public Lecture for the 25th Anniversary of TILT on 12th November 2019 on Why micro targeting does not work and nevertheless disrupts the public sphere. In this...

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Tuesday 12 November

Prof Paul Quinn: Has my DNA a right to privacy? (12 November 2019, UHasselt)

On 12 November 2019, Prof Paul Quinn will participate in a lecture and debate evening, organised by the University of Hasselt under the theme ' Has my DNA a right to Privacy?' . The debate will be...

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Monday 11 November

Lunchtime panel on web crawling and data protection (26 November 2019, Brussels Privacy Hub)

On 26 November 2019, the Brussels Privacy Hub and the Horizon 2020-funded research project Cyber-Trust | Advanced Cyber-Threat Intelligence, Detection, and Mitigation Platform for a Trusted Internet...

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Monday 11 November

New VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies

On 1 October 2019, the VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies started . The Chair is based at the LSTS research group and is supported by the research groups CRiS and SMIT . The Chair is coordinated by...

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Upcoming events

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12 November from 12:00 to 14:00

"Specifying the GDPR: Member States perspectives"series - France

‘One continent, one law’ is a motto that has been connected to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to emphasize its key role for overcoming the fragmentation of the European Union (EU) data...

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15 November from 17:30 to 19:30

Platformed Populations: Figuring Fintech Users

Lecture given by Paul Langley (Durham University). This lecture is part of the StadsSalonUrbains Lecture Series co-organised by LSTS through the BCUS (brussels centre for urban studies), VUB and...

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19 November from 9:00 to 18:00

3rd Annual Brussels Privacy Hub Symposium

The 2019 Brussels Privacy Symposium is the third annual academic program jointly presented by the Brussels Privacy Hub of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF)...

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21 November from 12:00 to 14:00

First Surveillance Studies Seminar on live facial recognition systems organised by the VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies

First Surveillance Studies Seminar organised by the VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies Prof. Dr. Pete Fussey (University of Essex) who will give a talk on ‘Facial Recognition in the Global City:...

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26 November from 12:00 to 14:30

Of spiders and robots: webcrawling as opportunity and threat vs. data protection law as facilitator and obstacle

Web crawlers are almost as old as the internet itself and are used for a myriad of purposes from law enforcement to research and business intelligence to malicious attacks. Theoretically, web...

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