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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 26 November

Expert guidance on Data Protection Impact Assessment for the telecommunications sector in Belgium

[Consultancy/Report] Between September 2018 and October 2020, the d.pia.lab (Brussels Laboratory for Privacy and Data Protection Impact Assessments), part of VUB-LSTS, has provided its external...

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Wednesday 25 November

Legal personality and AI software systems: New blogpost by Vagelis Papakonstantinou and Paul de Hert

[Blogpost] On 25 November 2020, Professors Vagelis Papakonstantinou and Paul de Hert published a new blogpost on the European Law Blog. In their blogpost entitled ' Refusing to award legal...

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Friday 20 November

Privacy Camp 2021 Call for panels: Digital rights for change: Reclaiming infrastructures, repairing the future

[Call for panels] The 9 th edition of Privacy Camp explores the relations between digitalisation, digital rights and infrastructures. 2020 has highlighted the importance of digital infrastructures...

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Thursday 19 November

Statements by Vagelis Papakonstantinou and Franck Dumortier on targeted advertising regulation in Digital Privacy News

[News] Statements by Prof. Vagelis Papakonstantinou and Franck Dumortier were included in the article 'EU proposals could restrict targeted ads' (16 November 2020), hosted on the Digital Privacy News...

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Thursday 19 November

New publication: Framing Big Data in the Council of Europe and the EU data protection law systems

[Publication] LSTS Professors Paul de Hert and Vagelis Papakonstantinou co-authored a new publication ' Framing Big Data in the Council of Europe and the EU data protection law systems: Adding ‘...

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Upcoming events

Imge Ozcan _LSTS researcher
Thursday 26 November from 13:30 to 15:00

L(S)STS session on 'What's wrong with 'universality'? A discussion on race, rights, and epistemic violence' with Imge Ozcan

What happens when the story of Enlightenment philosophy and modernity ignores its historical relation to colonialism and racism? Engaging with an excerpt from Fred Moten's The Universal Machine and...

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Thursday 26 November from 15:00 to 16:00

DSA in Perspective: Towards Smarter Regulation in the Areas of Competition, Data Protection and Consumer Law: Why Greater Power Should Come with Greater Responsibility

In this seminar, Prof. Graef discusses three ways in which the effectiveness of regulation in the areas of competition, data and consumer protection can be improved by tailoring substantive...

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Wednesday 2 December from 14:00 to 17:30

4th Annual Brussels Privacy Virtual Symposium 2020 - Research and the Protection of Personal Data under the GDPR

On 2 December 2020, the Brussels Privacy Symposium will focus on Research and Data protection. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the fore the crucial role that data collection, analysis, sharing,...

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Thursday 3 December from 15:30 to 16:30

DSA in Perspective: The Janus Face of Online Censorship

In this seminar, Dr. Tréguer situates the EU Digital Services Act and the wider European debate on content take-down in the long history of media censorship. By taking a Foucaldian stance to...

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Thursday 10 December from 12:30 to 14:00

Meet the Author Series: Web Privacy Measurement and the Power of online tracking technologies (Dr Rob Van Eijk)

This is the first lunchtime debate in the series 'Meet the Author' by the Brussels Privacy Hub which will be held online. The debate will challenge the findings of Dr Rob Van Eijk on Web Privacy...

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