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Archive 2019

Archived News

  • Launch of the new LSTS website
    Thursday 04/04/2019
  • Early Bird Fee for 4th European Data Protection Summer School extended
    Friday 05/04/2019
  • Being Profiled in Istanbul
    Thursday 11/04/2019
  • Programme for Workshop on the Legal Notions of Privacy and Data Protection in EU Law in a Rapidly Changing World available
    Tuesday 23/04/2019
  • d.pia.lab will host workshop on "Adjudicating personal data protection in the European Union: what to expect from impact assessments?"
    Thursday 02/05/2019
  • LSTS Professor Mireille Hildebrandt and Researcher Gianclaudio Malgieri present on ‘Explainable AI’ at Silicon Flatirons, University of Colorado
    Monday 06/05/2019
  • LSTS Post-doctoral researcher Rosamunde Van Brakel on the use of AI in law enforcement
    Tuesday 07/05/2019
  • Brussels Privacy Hub Researcher Júlia Zomignani Barboza made it to the VUB PhD Cup Finals (27 May)!
    Tuesday 07/05/2019
  • Dariusz Kloza and Simone Casiraghi at the 8th edition of ACCA: "Law as a tool for risk management, a call for vigilance?"
    Tuesday 07/05/2019
  • Not to be missed! LSTS researchers´ talks @ TILTing Perspectives 2019 (15-17 May)
    Wednesday 08/05/2019
  • René Mahieu and Joris van Hoboken publish new paper on Responsibility for Data Protection in a Networked World
    Friday 10/05/2019
  • LSTS Professor Vagelis Papakonstantinou at Athens Infolaw Conference: "Data Privacy Law: Is it a new field of law?"
    Friday 10/05/2019
  • Stigma, State Expressions and the Law: LSTS Professor Paul Quinn authors new book
    Friday 10/05/2019
  • Joris van Hoboken at the 2nd session of the Transantlantic High Level Working Group on Content Moderation Online and Freedom of Expression
    Monday 13/05/2019
  • EXPIRED DEADLINE (29 May): Ph.D. position on privacy- and personal data protection impact assessments in connection with no gate border crossing solutions
    Monday 13/05/2019
  • The programme of the 4th European Data Protection Law Summer School is now out!
    Friday 17/05/2019
  • LSTS Professor Christopher Kuner on ‘The Internet and the global reach of EU law’
    Saturday 18/05/2019
  • Marco Giacalone on algorithmic procedures in civil law matters (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
    Monday 20/05/2019
  • Gianclaudio Malgieri on Data Extra Commercium (University of Oxford, 29 May 2019)
    Tuesday 21/05/2019
  • Workshop "Feminist Data Protection" in Berlin: Submit your abstract by 15 June 2019
    Wednesday 22/05/2019
  • Rosamunde van Brakel: reflections upon the use of AI in the public sector
    Thursday 23/05/2019
  • Meet Gianmarco Gori, LSTS visiting scholar (April-beginning of July 2019)
    Friday 24/05/2019
  • BPH welcomes new visiting scholar Timothy Kariotis (3-7 June 2019)
    Monday 27/05/2019
  • Research and GDPR: Gianclaudio Malgieri represents PANELFIT in International Workshop at Pisa (Italy)
    Monday 27/05/2019
  • Responsible digitalisation: Rosamunde van Brakel at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium
    Thursday 30/05/2019
  • Gianclaudio Malgieri on legibility of AI in the GDPR (University Grenoble Alpes, France)
    Monday 03/06/2019
  • CPDP 2020 Call for Panels - Data Protection and Artificial Intelligence (Deadline: 16 June 2019)
    Tuesday 04/06/2019
  • Watch Meet the Author Interview with Juraj Sajfert on data protection for law enforcement
    Tuesday 04/06/2019
  • The University of the Future and privacy implications: BPH welcomes new visiting scholar Jonas Botta (June 2019)
    Wednesday 05/06/2019
  • Prof Mireille Hildebrandt launches 'Law for Computer Scientists and Other Folk' for open review
    Wednesday 05/06/2019
  • PROGRAMME for CANVAS conference is out: Value-driven Cybersecurity (VUB, 19 June 2019)
    Friday 07/06/2019
  • LSTS celebrates the end of the academic year with fellow VUB colleagues at the VUB staff BBQ
    Friday 07/06/2019
  • BPH proud to announce new visiting Professor Jungnyum Lee (14 June-31 July 2019)
    Monday 10/06/2019
  • Meet Raphaël Bastian, LSTS visiting scholar (May-July 2019)
    Tuesday 11/06/2019
  • LSTS appoints new co-directors Gloria González Fuster and Mireille Hildebrandt
    Wednesday 12/06/2019
  • Smart surveillance and policing: Rosamunde van Brakel at Queens University (Canada)
    Monday 17/06/2019
  • CREA seminar on use of AI in civil law dispute resolution: Marco Giacalone in Athens (Greece)
    Tuesday 18/06/2019
  • Welcome Chiara Angiolini, new LSTS visiting scholar (19 June - 26 July 2019)
    Friday 21/06/2019
  • Prof Mireille Hildebrandt keynote on 'Access to Legal Information. Opening Pandora's box'
    Monday 24/06/2019
  • CPDP 2020 Call for Papers - Data Protection and Artificial Intelligence (Deadline: 1 October 2019)
    Tuesday 25/06/2019
  • Save the date: CREA final conference 'Conflict Resolution with Equitative Algorithms' (Brussels, 27 September 2019)
    Thursday 27/06/2019
  • Interfaces between Privacy and Data Protection: Identity in the Web - Prof. Gloria González Fuster at Max Planck Institute (Luxembourg, 8 July 2019)
    Thursday 04/07/2019
  • Privacy by design and ethics in AI: Sara Roda at HR-Recycler meeting in Barcelona
    Monday 08/07/2019
  • New paper on 'Automated decision-making in the EU Member States': Gianclaudio Malgieri
    Friday 12/07/2019
  • CREA Project - Conflict Resolution with Equitative Algorithms Conference (26 July 2019)
    Thursday 25/07/2019
  • Cyber and Data Security Lab (CDSL): New website and workshop
    Friday 02/08/2019
  • STAR project announces series of events in Brussels (October 17, 2019) and in Tirana (October 22, 2019) - Launch of training material for DPAs and DPOs
    Wednesday 28/08/2019
  • Prof Mireille Hildebrandt keynoting at three major computer science conferences
    Tuesday 03/09/2019
  • Predictive analytics and the character of law: Laurence Diver to speak at Gikii 2019
    Wednesday 04/09/2019
  • Online Platforms and automated Content moderation @Privacy Camp 2019 (video)
    Friday 06/09/2019
  • AI and the Rule of Law: Laurence Diver to attend roundtable in Athens
    Tuesday 17/09/2019
  • Rosamunde van Brakel on predictive policing and security at smart cities @EUROCRIM 2019
    Tuesday 17/09/2019
  • PhD Artificial Intelligence Seminars at BeCentral
    Wednesday 18/09/2019
  • Irene Kamara at NENnovation competition: shortlisted and honourable mention
    Friday 20/09/2019
  • Gianclaudio Malgieri at Data Trusts Workshop @Cambridge (UK)
    Sunday 22/09/2019
  • Prof Vagelis Papakonstantinou member of the law-making committee for the GDPR-implementing Act in Greece
    Monday 23/09/2019
  • New PhD position with LSTS on e-health project (DEADLINE: 15 October 2019)
    Tuesday 24/09/2019
  • Gianclaudio Malgieri chairing at the Workshop 'Understanding the Security Challenges of Artificial Intelligence' (Brussels, 25 September 2019)
    Tuesday 24/09/2019
  • Series of events - Platform Urbanism: Data Commons, Citizen Contestation and the Governance of Cities
    Wednesday 25/09/2019
  • István Böröcz, invited panelist at the XIV Congress of the Constitutional Jurisdiction (Cartagena, Colombia)
    Thursday 26/09/2019
  • The New York Times: Prof Joris van Hoboken comments on recent landmark CJEU decisions about RTBF
    Thursday 26/09/2019
  • Rights as Methodology?
    Friday 27/09/2019
  • LSTS researchers present at the 7th European Conference on Health Law Innovation & Healthcare (Toulouse, France)
    Monday 30/09/2019
  • René Mahieu and Joris van Hoboken commentary on CJEU decision in Fashion ID @ European Law Blog
    Tuesday 01/10/2019
  • LSTS welcomes new visiting scholar, Dr Katerina Sideri (October-December 2019)
    Tuesday 01/10/2019
  • Prof Gloria González Fuster keynoting at the Anthropology + Technology conference (Bristol, 3 October 2019)
    Wednesday 02/10/2019
  • Cyber and Data Security Lab: EU Cybersecurity Law workshop (11 October 2019)
    Friday 04/10/2019
  • #PrivacyCamp20: Technology and Activism - Call for submissions
    Tuesday 08/10/2019
  • Prof Mireille Hildebrandt keynoting at the Legal Tech Conference
    Thursday 10/10/2019
  • Gianclaudio Malgieri @ ERA Annual Conference on European Consumer Law (11 October 2019)
    Thursday 10/10/2019
  • LSTS Researchers' papers @PLSC Europe 2019 (Amsterdam, 24-25 October)
    Monday 14/10/2019
  • Frederike Zufall @AIELN Conference "International Trade Regime for the Data-Driven Economy“
    Monday 28/10/2019
  • New vacancies with COHUBICOL: Two postdoc researchers in CS and 'legal tech' (Deadline: 15 December 2019)
    Tuesday 29/10/2019
  • Laura Drechsler on algorithmic discrimination @B.STS workshop
    Tuesday 29/10/2019
  • Policy brief #2 on methods for data protection impact assessment
    Thursday 07/11/2019
  • Training activities and PETs: Prof Paul de Hert and István Böröcz at 41st ICCDPC (Tirana, Albania)
    Friday 08/11/2019
  • Specifying the GDPR: Launch of resources webpage and kick-off event (12 November 2019, Brussels)
    Friday 08/11/2019
  • New VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies
    Monday 11/11/2019
  • Lunchtime panel on web crawling and data protection (26 November 2019, Brussels Privacy Hub)
    Monday 11/11/2019
  • Prof Paul Quinn: Has my DNA a right to privacy? (12 November 2019, UHasselt)
    Tuesday 12/11/2019
  • Prof Mireille Hildebrandt public lecture @25th Anniversary TILT
    Tuesday 12/11/2019
  • Marco Giacalone receives Best Paper Award: Cloud-Oriented Web Application for Legal Conflict Resolution
    Friday 15/11/2019
  • Looking forward to the Feminist Data Protection Workshop (20 November 2019, Berlin)
    Sunday 17/11/2019
  • Federich Romby gives lecture to Versalius College students on competition and DSM policy
    Monday 18/11/2019
  • Prof Gloria González Fuster on AI and foundation pillars @4IRE Congress (21 November 2019, Madrid)
    Wednesday 20/11/2019
  • EUCFR and GDPR in the context of the right to information: Laura Drechsler @ERA seminar (21 November 2019, Brussels)
    Wednesday 20/11/2019
  • Fairness and vulnerability in data protection: Gianclaudio Malgieri at 2nd Istanbul Privacy Symposium (22 November 2019)
    Thursday 21/11/2019
  • Prof Vagelis Papakonstantinou on personal data processing by judicial authorities
    Wednesday 27/11/2019
  • New publication on ENISA, NIS Directive and GDPR by Dimitra Markopoulou, Paul de Hert and Vagelis Papakonstantinou
    Wednesday 27/11/2019
  • LSTS researchers @VUB Ethics Week 2019 (2-6 December 2019)
    Thursday 28/11/2019
  • Prof Mireille Hildebrandt on the Broken Promises of AI's Modern Approach
    Monday 02/12/2019
  • Professors de Hert and van Brakel @PI.lab Conference 2019 (6 December, The Hague)
    Wednesday 04/12/2019
  • Algorithmic Impact Assessment: Gianclaudio Malgieri receives 2019 Future of Privacy Forum Award
    Friday 06/12/2019
  • COHUBICOL team @Lex Ex Machina: A workshop on law’s computability
    Monday 09/12/2019
  • Legal and ethical challenges of Big Data for policing: Prof van Brakel at the Scottish International Policing Conference (10 December, Edinburgh)
    Monday 09/12/2019
  • Roda, Sajfert and Zomignani Barboza @ELSA Benelux Conference 2019 on Artificial Intelligence (12-14 December, Brussels)
    Tuesday 10/12/2019
  • New PhD vacancy on Personal Data Transfers & Borders (DEADLINE: 21 January 2020)
    Wednesday 11/12/2019
  • Ethics and Law in the age of AI: Marco Giacalone lecturing at Univ. Naples Federico II
    Friday 13/12/2019
  • Robert Riemann: Make Websites Privacy Friendly Again! (13 January 2020, VUB)
    Monday 16/12/2019
  • Prof Serge Gutwirth: Francqui Chair lectures @University of Namur (February - March 2020)
    Wednesday 18/12/2019
  • Policy brief #2 on methods for (data protection) impact assessment now available in French!
    Tuesday 24/12/2019
  • LSTS Books of the year 2019
    Monday 30/12/2019

Archived Events

  • Cartographic Attributes of the Invisible: Geographies of the Platform Economy
  • L(S)STS Gathering: Great classics
  • AI governance: theoretical and practical implications of EU “regulation” on AI
  • 3rd Annual Brussels Privacy Hub Symposium
  • WRG: Chiara Angiolini - Personal data between fundamental rights and goods: A private law perspective
  • Law, Slow Science, Technology and Society - L(S)STS Gathering with Laura Drechsler on Against Method?
  • The new European Data Protection Board - How does it function, what are the challenges?
  • Gender, Technology & Law: A kind of mapping, by Gloria González Fuster
  • ICDPPC Side event: Final event of the 'Support training activities on the data protection reform' (STAR) Project
  • Support training activities on the data protection reform (STAR) - conference
  • Meet the Author Series: The Internet and the Global Reach of EU Law (Prof Christopher Kuner)
  • "Specifying the GDPR: Member States perspectives"series - France
  • Gender, Technology & Law Series: A topology of terms with Olga Gkotsopoulou
  • Beta-Testing Democracy? Platforms forging Citizens & How to resist them
  • The CREA Final Conference - 2019: Conflict Resolution with Equitative Algorithms
  • Platformed Populations: Figuring Fintech Users
  • Security Technology and the Politics of Failure
  • Law, Slow Science, Technology and Society - L(S)STS Gathering with Imge Ozcan on Has Critique Run out of Steam? – Rethinking methods and the politics of knowledge production
  • First Surveillance Studies Seminar on live facial recognition systems organised by the VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies
  • WRG: Frederike Zufall - Data Portability in a Data-Driven World
  • WRG: Markus Michaelsen - Digital Authoritarian Practices: Surveillance and Repression Against Transnational Activist Networks (DIGIACT)
  • WRG on Digital Platforms and Sensors in Mental Health: Technologies of Extended Cognition and Privacy by Katharina Sideri
  • Gender, Technology & Law gatherings: Guest lecture by Nayantara Ranganathan on "All Watched Over By Aunties Of Loving Grace: Safety as Surveillance in India"
  • Of spiders and robots: webcrawling as opportunity and threat vs. data protection law as facilitator and obstacle
  • L(S)STS gathering on "Book Discussion: Stigma, State Expressions and the Law Implications of Freedom of Speech" animated by Paul Quinn
  • Meet the Author Series with Prof. Dan Svantesson (Bond University, Australia)
  • PhD defence of Dariusz Kloza "The concept of impact assessment in European Privacy and Personal Data Protection Law"
  • Law Enforcement Data Access Series: "Right and e-evidence: a defendant's perspective on privacy and data protection"
  • Law, Slow Science, Technology and Society - L(S)STS Gathering
  • CORE Doctoral School with Niels Van Dijk
  • WRG: Audrey Van Scharen - Data protection & ethics at VUB
  • Brussels Privacy Hub - Meet the Author Series: Data Protection Directive for Police and Criminal Justice Authorities (Juraj Sajfert and Teresa Quintel)
  • WRG: Jessica Hekking - Internal research support mechanisms for the social and human sciences at VUB
  • Brussels Privacy Hub - Doctoral Seminar with Alessia Tanas on "Common Grounds. An ecological and legal approach to land-commons"
  • Law, Slow Science, Technology and Society - L(S)STS Gathering animated by Serge Gutwirth (12h-14h, Room 4B302)
  • Brussels Privacy Hub and LSTS Workshop - Exploring the Privacy and Data Protection connection : International Workshop on the Legal Notions of Privacy and Data Protection in EU Law in a Rapidly Changing World
  • Brussels Privacy Hub - Doctoral seminar with Gianclaudio Malgieri - Unfair Imbalance and vulnerability in the algorithmic environment: Fairness-by-design and the effects-based approach
  • Brussels Privacy Hub - European Data Protection Law Summer School : Advancing (with) EU data protection
  • Brussels Privacy Hub Doctoral seminar with Elisa Spiller on "Data protection and risks to the rights: Some insights from the constitutional law perspective"
  • Value-driven EU cybersecurity: Which security? Whose values?
  • 'Rights as methodology?' Joint Workshop LSTS/Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM, University of Warwick)
  • The Trouble with Article 25 (and How to Fix It): The Future of Data Protection by Design and Default
  • GDPR Salon 2019 - Meet the Belgian DPA
  • Brussels Privacy Hub - Doctoral seminar with Timothy Kariotis (Visiting Scholar) on "Information Continuity in the Digital Age: Co-Developing the Socio-Technical Design Requirements for Integrated Electronic Health Records to Uphold Contextual Privacy"
  • WRG: Gianmarco Gori - "Subjects, objects and rules. When Law meets Data" (12:30 - 14:00, Room 4C306)
  • Brussels Privacy Hub - Doctoral seminar with Jonas Botta on "The University of the Future - Privacy Challenges and Discrimination Risks"
  • Workshop "Adjudicating personal data protection in the European Union: what to expect from impact assessments?"
  • Law, Slow Science, Technology and Society - L(S)STS Gathering: CAVEAT at the L(S)STS
  • Workshop on Ethical and Legal Issues of Data Protection in ICT Research (PANELFIT Project)
  • The (In)Alienable Data Subject: The seductions of data ownership, control and trade in data protection law
  • Meet the Author Series: The Right to Erasure: Safeguard for Informational Self Determination in a Digital Society? (Dr. Jef Ausloos)
  • WRG: Brussels Privacy Hub Visiting Scholar Professor Jungnyum Lee (Soongsil University, Korea) on "Criminal legislative models for the regulation of fake news on the internet: What is important?"
  • Towards a comprehensive method for impact assessment of no-gate crossing technologies at European borders: First workshop of the PERSONA project
  • The Connected DPO: Networks, Professional Associations and Beyond
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