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Article published in Dutch journal, ‘Rechtstreeks', by Prof. Mireille Hilderbrandt
Prof. Mireille Hilderbrandt has recently seen an article published for the Netherlands journal ‘Rechtstreeks’. It contains scientific articles on Case Law, published by the Netherlands Council for the Judiciary, focusing on the practice and development of case law in the Netherlands.LSTS Researcher Vanessa Ugolini received the ‘Best Doctoral Researcher 2023’ prize in International Studies from the University of Trento
Vanessa Ugolini, post-doctoral fellow in the DATAUNION project, received the ‘Best Doctoral Researcher 2023’ prize in International Studies from the University of Trento. The award ceremony was held in Piazza Fiera, Trento (Italy) on 10 May 2024.Prof. Mireille Hilderbrandt delivers keynote at the Conference of the Society of Internet Platforms
On Tuesday 25th June in Budapest, Professor Mireille Hilderbrandt delivers a keynote on 'The Future of Legal Method. A New Hermeneutics for Computational Law', at the Conference of the Society of Internet Platforms.LSTS researcher Anastasia Karagianni presents work at the IMX conference in Stockholm
LSTS researcher Anastasia Karagianni recently presented a work-in-progress paper at the ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences (IMX) in Stockholm, titled 'Pixels of Perfection and Self-Perception: Deconstructing AR Beauty Filters and Their Challenge to Unbiased Body Image?'...LSTS Researcher supported through EDPS research program
EDPS (European Data Protection Supervisor) are soon to be celebrating their 20th anniversary - two decades of safeguarding citizens' privacy and data protection rights.Interview with estadodiario (Chile) on the AI Act now online
Now online, an interview with Professor Gloria González Fuster on estadodiario.com (an online platform dedicated to the legal world and legal market in Chile).LSTS Researcher recent publication in Journal of European Consumer and market law
Titled 'Consumer Law and the Regulation of the Free Flow of Data: Upsetting the Balance of the European Data Protection Framework' - the article looks at how regulation of data is now spread over various legal disciplines as the free flow of data and the creation of a ‘genuine single market for dat...Opinion piece in De Tijd from LSTS' Paul De Hert - 31 May 2024
Paul De Hert and Rosamunde van Brakel published an opinion piece observing that massive data storage of Internet traffic seems inevitable in Europe, while more and more governments insist on decrypting encryption so they can see messages.Welcome to visiting researcher Zuzanna Choińska at LSTS!
Zuzanna Choinska graduated with a law degree from the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw. Currently, she is a Ph.D.Call for Participation: Teaching with Data Rights - Deadline 10 January 2024
We invite expressions of interest for an international workshop on Teaching with Data Rights, hosted by the Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) Research Group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) on Friday 9 February 2024, in Brussels (Belgium).Final publication of the COHUBICOL Research Study on Computational Law
Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt's ERC Advanced Grant project COHUBICOL has published the final version of its Research Study on Computational Law. Written by postdoctoral researchers Pauline McBride and Laurence Diver, the study is one of the core outputs of the project.Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt publishes chapter on 'Grounding computational 'law' in legal education and professional legal training'
Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt has contributed a chapter in the recently published Research Handbook on Law and Technology (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023).Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt reviews 'The Prediction Society: Algorithms and the Problems of Forecasting the Future' by Matsumi & Solove
Prof. dr. Mireille Hildebrandt (Co-director LSTS) has written a Technology Law JOTWELL review of LSTS researcher Hideyuki Matsumi's and George Washington University Prof.The paper “Enhancing AI fairness through impact assessment in the European Union: a legal and computer science perspective” by Alessandra Calvi and Dimitris Kotzinos obtains a Best Paper Award at FAccT 2023
On 12 June 2023, EUTOPIA PhD co-tutelle fellow and LSTS researcher Alessandra Calvi (d.pia.lab, LSTS, VUB; lab. ETIS UMR 8051, CYU) presented a paper entitled “Enhancing AI fairness through impact assessment in the European Union: a legal and computer science perspective” co-authored with Prof.VUB student Seliha Buelens won the Student Video Competition "A FLASH OF PRIVACY"
Seliha Buelens is the winner of IAPP’s Westin Scholar Award for VUB for the academic year 2022-23.Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt delivers keynote at international MBR conference (8 June 2023)
On 8 June 2023, Mireille Hildebrandt will deliver a keynote at the Ninth International MBR Conference in Rome (7-9 June, Sapienza University) on Model-Based Reasoning, Abductive Cognition, Creativity (Inferences & Models in Science, Logic, Language, and Technology). The topic of the...Human Agency, Digital Society and Data-Intensive Surveillance colloquim at IEA Paris - May 22 - 23
Lander Govaerts, Lucas Melgaço, and Lior Volinz will be at the IEA Paris May 22 - 23 and present at the ' Human Agency, Digital Society and Data-Intensive Surveillance ' colloquim co-organised by Anders Albrechtslund (Aarhus University), Rosamunde Van Br...Student Video Competition "A Flash of Privacy"
Are you passionate about privacy and data protection? Do you wish to receive the Westin Scholar Award 2023 for VUB?Dr. Gianmarco Gori publishes on “Legal Protection Debt in ML training datasets”
LSTS postdoctoral researcher Gori has published on the practices of ML dataset creation, curation and dissemination. The report emphasises how such practices play a crucial role for determining the level of legal protection enjoyed by the legal subjects located downstream ML-pipelines.The paper by Simone Casiraghi titled “Anything new under the sun? Insights from a history of institutionalized AI ethics” is published on the journal Ethics and Information Technology
The paper by Simone Casiraghi titled “Anything new under the sun? Insights from a history of institutionalized AI ethics” was published on the journal Ethics and Information Technology.Rosamunde Van Brakel has been appointed visiting professor at University of Essex, UK
Rosamunde Van Brakel has been appointed as visiting professor at the Centre for Criminology, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, UK for a month and will be visiting from 24 April 2023 till 19 May 2023. During her time there she will give a seminar on harms of algorithmic policing.Closing symposium ‘Governing Artificial Intelligence Designing Legal and Regulatory Responses’ for the PROTECT MSCA ITN and call for abstracts (deadline April 7, 2023)
The PROTECT MSCA ITN is coming to an end and its closing symposium, titled ‘Governing Artificial Intelligence Designing Legal and Regulatory Responses’ , will take place on May 23 in Brussels.HEALTH, LAW, AND TECHNOLOGY (HELT) SYMPOSIUM 2023
The Health and Ageing Law Lab (HALL) is organising its inaugural HELT (Health, law, and Technology) Symposium 2023. The symposium will take place on 26th April 2023 at the ‘Sparks Venue – Rue Ravenstein 60’ in the center of Brussels.Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt presents at Women in Data Science conference in Maastricht (7 March 2023)
Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt will give a presentation on the 7th of March 2023 at the fourth edition of the Women in Data Science (WiDS) 2023 Conference in Maastricht.Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt participates in debate on smart technologies and climate change from the perspective of the rule of law (20 Feb 2023)
On 20 February (at 8pm) Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt will participate in a debate (in Dutch) held at De Balie in Amsterdam on the topic of "menselijk recht in tijden van datasturing and natuurgeweld" (human-made law in the era of data control and natural disasters).Call for Abstracts - Symposium: Human Agency, Digital Society and Data-Intensive Surveillance
The VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies in collaboration with CENSUS, IEA, and supported by SSN, organises an international, trans-disciplinary and multilingual symposium on Human Agency, Digital Society and Data-Intensive Surveillance at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study,&nbs...The VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies publishes Workshop Report on Oversight of Police-Use of Surveillance Technology
The report documents the main findings of a workshop on the Police-Use of Surveillance Technology hosted by the VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies.The VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies announces upcoming seminars
The preliminary schedule for the VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies' upcoming seminars is now available on their website.Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt delivers keynote at BIOSTEC 2023 conference (17 Febr 2023)
During the 16th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies BIOSTEC 2023 (16-18 February 2023), Prof.LSTS website under construction (16/12/2022 to 15/01/2023)
Please note that the LSTS website is undergoing some reconstruction from 16/12/2022 to ca. 15/01/2023. The website will still be available in its current form to all visitors, but new content will not be added during this time.Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt delivers a keynote on the Typology of Legal Tech at IURIX2022 conference (16 Dec 2022)
Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt has been invited to give a keynote at IURIX2022, the annual conference on the intersection of law, Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems, under the auspices of the JURIX Foundation for Legal Knowledge Systems.LSTS and HALL Researcher Olga Gkotsopoulou speaks about (in)accessibility at IGF 2022 (29 November 2022)
The United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) brings people together from various stakeholder groups to discuss public policy issues relating to the Internet.Dr Desara Dushi co-authors 'Imagining the AI Landscape after the AI Act 2022' workshop proceedings
In June 2022, Dr Desara Dushi co-organised in conjunction with the International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence the 1st International Workshop on Imagining the AI Landscape After the AI Act aimed at analysing how the new AI regulation will shape the AI technologies of the futur...Dr Desara Dushi speaks at the Annual Seminar 'A 360° view on Child Friendly Justice' (14 Oct 2022)
The Child Friendly Justice European Network (CFJ-EN) through Defence for Children International Belgium (DCI-Belgium), organised the Annual Seminar ‘A 360° View on Child Friendly Justice’, convening child rights stakeholders on Friday 14 October 2022 in Brussels, Belgium. Postdoc researc...Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt keynotes at the 'European Sovereignty: The Legal Dimension – A Union in Control of its own Destiny' congress (14 Oct 2022)
To mark its 30th anniversary, the Academy of European Law (ERA) is convening leading legal practitioners, lawmakers and policymakers to explore the legal challenges arising from new sovereignty concepts that have moved to the centre of public debate in recent years, including ‘budgetary sovereignty’...Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt discusses Artificial Justice: The Quandary of AI in the Courtroom (publication)
In August, U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm of the District of Maryland convened a panel of leading international experts to lend their perspectives on a few difficult societal and ethical questions: What happens when machine-learned and AI-generated data enter the courtroom?LSTS researchers speak at the 17th IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management (30 August – 2 September 2022)
The 17th IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management takes place virtually from 30 August to 2 September 2022.Tatiana Duarte spoke on Compliance by Design v. Legal Protection by Design (29 June 2022)
The word compliance entered our daily vocabulary, pervading the regulatory strategy and discourse in the European Union law. But what does it mean? What is its role in the legal system?Dr. Joanna Mazur visits LSTS
In June dr Joanna Mazur from the University of Warsaw visited LSTS. Dr Mazur presented her current work on data protection and cross-border transfers in regional trade agreements in a WRG session that took place on June 22.Tatiana Duarte spoke on Google and Apple Exposure Notifications System at Kozminski University (24 June 2022)
In April 2020 Google and Apple announced a joint project under whose constraints countries could develop proximity tracing apps, called Exposure Notifications (EN).LSTS welcomes new Blog on its website!
The Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) Research Group is happy to witness the launch of a new Blog on its website. The LSTS Blog can be accessed from the landing page of the LSTS website or simply here.Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt presented on 'The Methodenstreit in Machine Learning’
Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt presented on The New Methodenstreit in Machine Learning at the International Conference on Explaining Machines , at the University of Bielefeld, Germany (the place where famous philosopher Luhmann worked most of his life).The HALL project ‘Socio-Bee’ was mentioned in the Annual Report 2021 by the VUB Vice-rectorate Innovation & Industry Relations as a ‘success case'
The project ‘SOCIO-BEE’ where VUB participates with the Health and Ageing Law Lab (HALL) as sub-group of the Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) Research Group was show-cased in the VUB Annual Report 2021 by the Vice-rectorate Innovation & Industry Relations as a ‘success case’.The paper of Anastasiya Kiseleva and Paul Quinn ‘ARE YOU AI’S FAVORITE? EU Legal Implications of Biased AI Systems in Clinical Genetics and Genomics' is published at the European Health and Pharma Law Review (EHPL)
The latest issue of the European Health and Pharma Law Review (EHPL) has published the paper of Anastasiya Kiseleva written together with Professor Paul Quinn "Are You AI’S Favourite?Dr. Desara Dushi delivers a lecture on the use of facial recognition by law enforcement (22 June 2022)
Facial recognition is used not only by the private sector. Its evolution has attracted the public sector too, especially law enforcement and border management. This has generated many debates on the impact on human rights.LSTS members participated to the EDPS conference on the future of data protection
On the 16th and 17th of June, the European Data Protection Supervisor held in Brussels a conference on the future of data protection. The conference saw the participation of prominent data protection scholars and experts from all over the world. Several LSTS members participate...WRG session on data protection and cross-border transfers in regional trade
The LSTS organised a WRG session on data protection and cross-border transfers in regional trade . The session will take place on 22 June, 12:00 to 13:45 .Dr. Desara Dushi moderates the session on 'Criminal Justice in Cyberspace' at EuroDIG2022 (21 June 2022)
This year saw a big step in the fight against cybercrime with the adoption of the second Additional Protocol to the Budapest Convention, the European Union’s AI Act proposal which regulates (restricts) the use of AI for law enforcement purposes, and the strengthened efforts towards a UN treaty on cy...Danaja Fabcic Povse will present at the Harvard Law School - Petrie-Flom Center’s about the challenges EU law presents for remote patient care technologies
On June 15, LSTS-HALL member Danaja Fabcic Povse will present at the Harvard Law School - Petrie-Flom Center’s annual conference “Diagnosing in the Home: The Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory Challenges and Opportunities of Digital Diagnostics and Therapeutics Outside of Traditional Clinical Settings”.Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt and Dr. Desara Dushi take part in the 'Imagining the AI Landscape after the AI Act' workshop (13 June 2022)
In April 2021, the EU Parliament published a proposal, the AI Act (AIA), for regulating the use of AI systems and services in the Union market. However, the effects of EU digital regulations usually transcend its confines.Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt speaks on the rule of proxies in the Sabine Krolak-Schwerdt lecture (14 June 2022)
The EuADS Summer School Data Science for Social Media is opened by a public lecture by Prof.Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt speaks on AI regulation in the Federal Senate of Brazil (9 June 2022)
Part of the drafting of the regulatory framework on Artificial Intelligence of Brazil, the Federal Senate organises an international seminar on 9-10 June on the Challenges in Artificial Intelligence Regulation: international contribution to the Brazilian lawmaking process. Prof.Prof. Dr. Gloria González Fuster to join the workshop "Fight the Power! Data Rights and Social Justice in the Platform Economy"
On the 9th of June at 12.15 Prof. Dr. Gloria González Fuster will join, together with a panel of prominent scholars and experts, the workshop "Fight the Power!Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt takes part in the 'Meet the Author Series' with Jaap-Henk Hoepman (30 May 2022)
The Meet the Author debate organised by Brussels Privacy Hub is proud to host Prof. Jaap-Henk Hoepman with his book Privacy is Hard and Seven Other Myths - Achieving Privacy through Careful Design . In this book, he debunks eight persistent myths about privacy.Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt to speak on the issue of proxies and choice architectures (2 June 2022)
During the conference 'Opportunities and Risks of Digital Transformation in Finance and Beyond' organised by the Centre Responsible Digitality ZEVEDI on 2-3 June 2022, Prof.Interview on feminist data protection with Prof. Dr. Gloria González Fuster
Prof. Dr. Gloria González Fuster has been interviewed by the French magazine L’ADN on the topic of feminist data protection. The article can be accessed here, while the full video interview can be watched here.HALL is looking for Ph.D. candidate in EU data protection law
LSTS and the Health and Ageing Law Lab (HALL) are looking for a motivated researcher to join their team. As part of their duties, the successful candidate will be conducting innovative research primarily in the area of data protection law, contributing to commissioned reports, advising up...d.pia.lab is calling for PH.D. position on legal foresight in relation to the data economy for food systems
The Brussels Laboratory for Data Protection & Privacy Impact Assessments (d.pia.lab) is calling for PH.D. position on legal foresight in relation to the data economy for food systems.Prof. Gloria González Fuster will be speaking at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Professor Gloria González Fuster will hold a talk on the GDPR and CJEU case law at te seminar on data transfers at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid on 13 May 2022 at 10:00 AM. The full program can be consulted here. It is still possible to register until the 10th using this l...Dr. Laurence Diver and Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt invited to teach course on computational ‘law’ at Tel Aviv University
The 12-lecture intensive course at the Buchmann Faculty of Law is titled ‘Critical Reflections on Computational Law’, and covers a wide range of practical and theoretical aspects of computational ‘law’ and legal tech.Two LSTS Researchers among the VUB PhD candidates competing in the Doctoral Derby 2022 Finals (7 June 2022 @Muntpunt)
Two LSTS researchers, Olga Gkotsopoulou and Lina Jasmontaite made it through the pre-selection rounds and will compete at the annual VUB Doctoral Derby Finals, presenting their research projects to a wide audience! After three hybrid preselection sessions, 9 VUB ...Laura Drechsler and Olga Gkotsopoulou to open the Pint of Science Festival in Brussels with presentations of their PhD research for a general audience
On 9 May 2022, LSTS PhD researchers Laura Drechsler and Olga Gkotsopoulou will present their ongoing PhD research at the Pint of Science Festival in Brussels.Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt speaks on shock architecture and the optics of choice (9 May 2022)
What is the materiality of the digital? In which ways do digital technologies change the design, production, experience and use of physical environments? Can atoms be translated into bits? Is computation grounded by matter? How does the digital extend or limit material practices?Dr. Laurence Diver to deliver talk to Catalan judges on ‘lossless law’ (22 April 2022)
Dr. Laurence Diver will present at the Artificial Intelligence and Justice Administration Day on 22 April, organised by the Catalan Center for Legal Studies and Specialised Training.Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt on the disconnect between 'upstream' automation and legal protection against automated decision making
In a recent publication in the Journal of Things We Like (Lots) - JOTWELL, Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt reviews the article Is That Your Final Decision?Dr. Desara Dushi publishes on human rights in the era of automated decision making and predictive technologies
Advances in Natural Language Processing and machine learning have made it possible to design predictive models that can be used to assist judicial proceedings.Interdisciplinary dialog on AI in Healthcare: HALL organizes the workshop at the conference of the European Association of Health Law
HALL organizes the workshop at the conference of the European Association of Health Law to be held in Ghent from 20 until 22 April 2022.HALL and LSTS researchers speak at the conference of the European Association of Health Law
This year, several LSTS and HALL researchers speak at the conference of the European Association of Health Law to be held in Ghent from 20 until 22 April 2022.Lina Jasmontaite, Nikolaos Ioannidis and Olga Gkotsopoulou competing at the VUB Doctoral Derby 2022 (19 April 2022)
This year, three LSTS researchers , Lina Jasmontaite, Nikolaos Ioannidis and Olga Gkotsopoulou, are participating at the VUB Doctoral Derby – the annual VUB-wide competition about communicating scientific research to a general audience!Brussels Privacy Hub to hold soon its Summer Academy 2022
In 2 months, the Brussels Privacy Hub is going to hold the 2022 edition of its Summer Academy for Global Privacy Law.Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt speaks on 'Regulating AI by way of AI' (29 March 2022)
The Yale Technology and Ethics group invites Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt to give a talk on Regulating AI by way of AI. Better law(s) or the end(s) of law?Conference on Anticipatory Compliance
On the 31st of March, 2022, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) will held a co-organised conference on the topic of "Anticipatory compliance". The conference marks the closing event of the Horizon 2020 Project PANELFIT.Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt speaks on the politics of ambiguity and the issues of proxies (22 March 2022)
In her talk, Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt will argue that what matters is not computable. However, it can be made computable, and in different ways. This difference in turn matters, it makes a difference for those who will suffer or enjoy the consequences.Call for papers - CRCL 2022: Computational 'law' on edge
COHUBICOL in collaboration with the Journal of Cross-disciplinary Research in Computational Law CRCL is organising an international conference on Computational 'law' on edge on 3-4 November 2022 in Brussels and invites computer scientists and lawyers, as well as social science or humanities scholar...Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt and Dr. Laurence Diver take part in the Rules as Code 2.0 Global Plenary (14 March 2022)
The Australasian Society for Computers and Law and the UNSW Allens Hub for technology, Law & Innovation is organising Rules as Code 2.0 - Global plenary for networking and co-designing solutions to RaC's and society's grand challenges. COHUBICOL's PI Mireille Hildebrandt will give a k...Prof. Gloria González Fuster speaking at LIBE hearing on GDPR implementation, enforcement and lessons learned
LSTS co-director, Prof. Dr. Gloria González Fuster will be speaking at the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) public hearing on the “General Data Protection Regulation implementation, enforcement and lessons learned”, on 17 March 2022.Lina Jasmontaite contributed to the podcast on digital identity wallets
Lina Jasmontaite participated in the second episode of the podcast prepared by the trainees of European Data Protection Supervisor and the European Data Protection Board (EDPS-EDPB).Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt and Dr. Gianmarco Gori teach at Winter ELSA Law School (21&23 Feb 2022)
New Technologies and Artificial Intelligence Law is the theme of the winter school organised by ELSA Brussels from 20 to 27 February 2022. COHUBICOL's PI Prof.Prof. Gloria González Fuster Talk @ Séminaire Surveillance et manipulation des goûts et des opinions
Prof. Gloria González Fuster will give a talk “Protection des données : une affaire personnelle, des enjeux collectifs ?" at the Séminaire Surveillance et manipulation des goûts et des opinions this thursday 10.2.2022 at 18:00 CET.Joris van Hoboken's co-authored paper received Privacy Papers for Policy Makers Award
Joris van Hoboken’s co-authored paper ‘Smartphone Platforms as Privacy Regulators’ is one of the winners of the 2022 Privacy Papers for Policymakers Awards. The winning authors will join The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) to present their work at a virtual event for 12th Annual Privacy Pa...Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt gives lecture on Law and Computer Science (9 Feb 2022)
The first edition of the Winter School on 'Algorithmic State, Market and Society' focuses on cutting-edge issues in the field of law and technology focusing especially on automated technologies. Prof.Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt to speak on 'Algorithmic Recommender systems and the Issue of Proxies' (7 Feb 2022)
The Hamburg Network for AI & Law (NAIL) has invited Prof.New dates for CPDP2022
We are delighted to announce that CPDP2022 will take place from 23 to 25 May at Les Halles de Schaerbeek and Area42, our usual meeting spots. We sincerely hope that you can join us on the new dates to celebrate the beginning of Spring in Brussels and the 15th anniversary of CPDP.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 protection law researchers. Prof. Dr. Gloria González Fuster will give the welcome speech.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.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 social media, the arts, fear, love and life.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 account: @StevePeers).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.Het sjabloon van het d.pia.lab voor het GEB-proces aangepast door de Vlaamse gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit (VTC) en uitgegeven in het Nederlands
The present news item is in Dutch. De eerste adaptatie van het sjabloon van het d.pia.lab voor een verslag van het proces van een gegevensbeschermingseffectbeoordeling (GEB) of, in het Engels, de data protection impact assessment (DPIA) is een feit.LSTS Books of the Year 2021 OUT NOW!
[Books of the Year] As per tradition, 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 their (academic) lives and/or have been inspirational.New study on biometrics & AI by STOA
A new study on biometrics & AI written by Gloria Fuster Gonzales and Michalina Nadola Peeters, titled 'Person identification, human rights and ethical principles: Rethinking biometrics in the era of artificial intelligence' has been published by the STOA.Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt discusses the EU AI Act at a Privacy Hub webinar (16 December 2021)
In recital 6 of the proposed AI Act, the Council’s draft aims to generally exclude ADM systems under the heading of excluding ‘classic software systems and programming’ from the Act: The definition should be based on the key functional characteristics of the software of artificial...Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt talks about the real life implications of reinforcement learning at the PERLS workshop (14 December 2021)
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a rapidly growing branch of AI research, with the capacity to learn to exploit our dynamic behavior in real time. From YouTube’s recommendation algorithm to post-surgery opioid prescriptions, RL algorithms are poised to permeate our daily lives.The d.pia.lab Policy Brief No. 1/2020 listed in the IAPP Resource Centre
The d.pia.lab is pleased to announce that the Policy Brief No.Homo Numericus: Data Governance et Santé
The French Embassy in Belgium, AI4Belgium and the VUB are joining forces to organize a conference examining the role of data governance in the fight against epidemics. Prof. Dr.Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt keynoting at Privacy Preserving Machine Learning (PPML) Workshop at the ACM CCS 2021 Conference (19 November 2021)
This one day workshop focuses on privacy preserving techniques for training, inference, and disclosure in large scale data analysis, both in the distributed and centralized settings.Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt gives a lecture on 'How to regulate AI?' (26 November 2021)
In this lecture, she will reflect on what it means to develop legal norms to constrain the development, provision and deployment of computational systems. Legal norms are text-driven, whereas computational systems are driven by code and data.Privacy Camp 2022 Call for panels: Digital at the centre, rights at the Margins?
This year the Privacy Camp celebrates its 10 years of activity, and for its 10th edition invites for a forward-looking retrospective on the last decade of digital rights.Anastasiya Kiseleva is presenting at the Nordic Permed Law Symposium on Genome Editing, Health innovation, and Responsible Regulation
The Symposium 'Genome Editing, Health innovation, and Responsible Regulation' is held online by the Nordic Permed Law on 3&4 of November 2021. Anastasiya Kiseleva is presenting there on “Somatic Genome Editing with the Use of AI: Big Promises but Doubled Legal Issues”.Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt keynoting on 'Written and coded 'speech acts'. Never the twain shall meet?' (27 October 2021)
The 6th International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing organised by the Turing Center of the ETH Zurich brings together an interdisciplinary community to critically address the entanglement of computing practices with the main cultural challenges our epoch is facing.Paul De Hert publishes Brussels Privacy Hub Working Paper on 'Facial recognition, visual and biometric data in the US'.
Professor Paul De Hert together with Georgios Bouchagiar have published a Brussels Privacy Hub Working Paper on ' Facial recognition, visual and biometric data in the US. Recent, promising developments to regulate intrusive technologies ' (Vol. 7, No.Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt publishes 'Discrimination, Data-Driven AI Systems and Practical Reason' in EDPL
The European Data Protection Law Review published in their latest issue 3/2021 the paper of Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt 'Discrimination, Data-Driven AI Systems and Practical Reason'. To access the full paper, click here.LSTS researcher Irene Kamara won Standards+Innovation Award
Irene Kamara won the Standards+Innovation Award in the category Individual Researcher/Innovator for her research in the field of cybersecurity, privacy, and technical standards. Kamara was nominated by NEN, the Dutch Standardisation Institute.
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