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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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”.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt speaks on Human rights and AI systems (18 October 2021)
The Symposium Human Rights in the Digital Sphere brings together speakers from different legal systems and jurisdictions, experts and governmental representatives to exchange views, while tackling the complexity of protecting human rights in the digital sphere in our daily lives activities.

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