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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Call for Applications: PhD vacancy on EU data protection law & transfers (Deadline: 18 November 2021)
The Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) Research Group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) is launching a call for applications for PhD candidates in the area of European Union (EU) data protection law, to carry out research on data protection, data transfers and the notion of border.&
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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.
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