BPH Webinar: Does the EU need to urgently adopt the Interim Regulation on the processing of personal and other data for the purpose of combatting child sexual abuse online? (8 February 2021, Online)
[Webinar] The second webinar of the new Enforcing Europe - Webinar Series, in media partnership with Privacy Laws & Business, takes place on 8 February 2021.
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New page and save the date: First Repair Café for Digital Rights on 18 February 2021!
[Project/Event] The Repair Cafés for Digital Rights - Brussels (BXL) present their brand-new page!
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Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt to speak at 'Law + Computation: An Algorithm for the Rule of Law and Justice?' 5 Feb 2021
Computation is poised to transform legal services, legal systems, and the law itself.
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LSTS welcomes visiting scholar Guillermo Lazcoz (January-April 2021)
[Visiting scholar] Guillermo Lazcoz arrived in Brussels on the 4th of January 2021, and he is joining LSTS as a visiting PhD-student for the next three months, until the 3rd of April 2021.
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Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt discusses her work in the workshop ‘Data-driven Law on Edge?’
On 19 January 2021, the Hilary Term AI4Law workshop series at Faculty of Law, University of Oxford will start with the workshop ‘Data-Driven Law on Edge?’ where Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt will give a talk followed by Q&A and discussion.
Registration is required.
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SCAN Final Conference Small Claims Analysis Net (Online, 22 January 2021)
[Conference] The Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) are pleased to invite you to the Small Claims Analysis Net (SCAN) project final conference, where the findings and results of the SCAN project will be presented and the most recen...
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LSTS Books of the Year 2020 now out!
[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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Privacy Camp 2021 draft programme: Registrations now open!
[Event] Registrations for #PrivacyCamp21 are now open! #PrivacyCamp21 will be live on 26 January 2021, from 10.00 – 16.05 CET.
Privacy Camp is an annual conference held the day before the start of CPDP.
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The VUB Research Chair in Surveillance Studies announces two new seminars on educational and wokplace surveillance
[Seminars] The VUB Research Chair in Surveillance Studies, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Rosamunde van Brakel, is delighted to announce two new seminars that will take place in February and March 2021.
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New collaboration with the European Data Protection Board and the European Data Protection Supervisor
[Project] The VUB Research Group on Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) is happy to announce that, alongside the project coordinator Trilateral Research, they have concluded new contracts with the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Data Protection Supervis...
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Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt publishes 'A Philosophy of Technology for Computational Law’
This chapter confronts the foundational challenges posed to legal theory and legal philosophy by the surge of computational law. Two types of computational law are at stake.
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New PhD Vacancy in the area of data protection in Belgium (Deadline: 15 January 2021)
[Vacancy] LSTS is looking for a motivated researcher who will work on an action grant under the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme of the European Union in the area of data protection in Belgium.
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