[Website] The page ' Data protection law and the COVID-19 outbreak' was launched today on the LSTS website (link to be found at the footer section of the home page under Shortcuts). The outbreak of...
[Website] The LSTS Books of the year selections have now been moved from the LSTS blog to the LSTS website! The LSTS Books of the year can be found at the footer section of the LSTS website main page...
[Talk] On 10 March 2020, LSTS researcher Olga Gkotsopoulou will give a talk on "How well do you know your digital self? Young people ponder upon fake news, data protection and their democratic...
[Talk] [!] This event has been postponed [!] On 1 April 2020, at 10:00-12:00 at VUB Etterbeek campus (exact location to be announced), Petra Molnar will speak about "Immigration, Iris-Scanning, and...
[Publication] Marcus Michaelsen ’s new report examines the online efforts of authoritarian regimes to intimidate activists outside their borders. Authoritarian regimes have long used a variety of...
[Event] Professors Barry Friedman (New York University Law School, Policing Project ), Rosamunde van Brakel ( LSTS- Vrije Universiteit Brussel , VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies ) and Theodore...
[Education] Registrations are now open for the Summer Academy for Global Privacy Law in Brussels! The deadlines for registration are as follows: Early bird registration: Friday 3 April 2020 Standard...
[Publication] d.pia.lab Policy Brief No. 1/2019 "Towards a method for data protection impact assessment: Making sense of GDPR requirements" is now available in German. It can be downloaded via the...
This workshop is part of the collaboration between the EU H2020 research projects Privacy, Ethical, Regulatory, and Social No-gate Crossing Point Solutions Acceptance ( PERSONA , coordinated by VUB...
[Talk] Anastasiya Kiseleva is invited to present at the Centre for IT and IP Law at KU Leuven (CiTiP) . She will speak about her research on "Artificial Intelligence as a Medical Device: Is It Enough...
[Publication] Prof Gloria González Fuster and researcher Lina Jasmontaite participate with a chapter on “Cybersecurity Regulation in the European Union: The Digital, the Critical and Fundamental...
[Talk] On 6 February, Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) 2019 award winners Gianclaudio Malgieri and Margot Kaminski were invited to speak about Algorithmic Impact Assessment at the US Federal Trade...
[Project] Marco Giacalone has been awarded a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship for his research project 'Nemesis' on Online Dispute Resolution. Inspired by the greek goddess Nemesis,...
[Vacancy] The HALL team is looking for a researcher who has a strong interest in human enhancement. A particular focus on cognitive enhancement (brain sciences and law) is especially welcome...
[Talk] István Böröcz will participate at the 2020 Leuven AI Law & Ethics Conference (LAILEC) , which will take place on 18 February 2020 at Leuven. This year's theme is 'The Good, the Bad and the...
[Conference] From 27 to 30 January 2020, the ACM FAT* conference takes place in Barcelona . FAT* is a premier conference on fairness, accountability, and transparency in the tech sector, and has...
[Talk] On 21 January 2020, Gianclaudio Malgieri participates as discussant in the Executive Seminar on Legal & Technical Challenges of Explainable AI . The event is organised by the Centre on...
[Vacancy] The VUB Research Chair in Surveillance Studies , which is based at the Law, Science, Technology and Society Research Group , is supported by the research groups CRiS and imec-SMIT , and is...
[Event] Marking the public launch of the project Articulating Law, Technology, Ethics and Politics: Issues of Enforcement and Jurisdiction of EU Data Protection Law under and beyond the General Data...
Prof Mireille Hildebrandt will join the illustrious Bitburger Gespräche in Mainz, organised by the Institut für Rechtspolitik of Trier University on 9-10 January 2020, to give a dinner speech on the...
[Project] LSTS hosts a new two-year research project funded by a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship. In his project DIGIACT, post-doctoral research fellow Marcus Michaelsen will investigate...
[Seminar] Researcher Irene Kamara will give a seminar on data protection certification , presenting the results of the European Commission study on Arts. 42&43 GDPR at the Tilburg Institute for...
Every year, the members of the Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) Research Group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) are invited to reflect on the books that have influenced the most...
[Publication] The second policy brief "Towards a method for data protection impact assessment: Making sense of GDPR requirements" , published on 5 November 2019, by the d.pia.lab , is now available...
[Lecture] Between 11 February and 31 March 2020, Prof Serge Gutwirth , as part of his Francqui Chair 2019-2020 mandate, will give a series of evening lectures at the University of Namur. The lectures...
