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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

Friday 21 January

LSTS Researchers at the DPLSN meet-up on Data Protection Day (28 January 2022)

On 28 January 2022 (13:00-15:10 CET), upon the occasion of the Data Protection Day, the Data Protection Law Scholars Network organizes the the first ever international quick meet-up of data...

Thursday 20 January

Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt gives lecture on Legal Protection by Design at the Flanders AI Academy (26 Jan 2022)

How to build in legal protection into the development and deployment of AI Systems, constructing them with more than good intentions, yet based on norms agreed by a democratic legislature. Part of...

Tuesday 18 January

Privacy Salon co-presents HACK

How do young people experience and use the internet and social media? That is the central theme of HACK. 40 young people work for five months on a theater performance, memes and films. They hack...

Monday 17 January

Prof. Paul De Hert and Andrés Chomczyk Penedo published in the EU Law Analysis blog on the Digital Services Act

Prof. Paul De Hert and Andrés Chomczyk Penedo (twitter account: @achomczyk)have published a blogpost on the Digital Services Act in the EU Law Analysis blog, edited by Prof. Steve Peers (twitter...

Wednesday 12 January

Dr. Laurence Diver publishes open access book "Digisprudence: Code as Law Rebooted"

In December Laurence Diver published his monograph Digisprudence: Code as Law Rebooted with Edinburgh University Press. The book has been published open access, which has been made possible through...

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Upcoming events

Thursday 20 January from 11:00 to 12:30

Meet the Author Series: Territorial Scope and Data Transfer Rules in the GDPR: Realising the EU’s Ambition of Borderless Data Protection

Meet the Author Series will host Prof. Christopher Kuner on his findings on ''Territorial Scope and Data Transfer Rules in the GDPR: Realising the EU’s Ambition of Borderless Data Protection". The...

Tuesday 25 January from 9:00 to 19:00

#PrivacyCamp22: 10th anniversary edition

#PrivacyCamp22: Save the Date! EDRi's Privacy Camp conference co-organised with LSTS, Privacy Salon and IEE will take place online on 25 January 2022. For more information, click here .

Wednesday 26 January from 12:30 to 14:00

L(S)STS x CORE session on proportionality

On 26 January 2022, L(S)STS will team up with CORE to host another session on proportionality. The session will take place online from 12:30 - 14:00. For more information on L(S)STS session, see here...

Thursday 17 February from 17:00 to 19:00

Book Club meeting #5 - Privacy Vintage Movie 'Night'

The 5th Book Club will be a Book Club with a twist! We are going to watch two vintage 'documentaries' from the late 60s-early 70s, picked up from Prof. Gloria Gonzalez Fuster's collection of...

Thursday 24 February 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...

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