Looking forward to the Feminist Data Protection Workshop (20 November 2019, Berlin)
LSTS is looking forward to the Workshop on Feminist Data Protection, which will take place place on Wednesday 20 November 2019 in Berlin, Germany. The workshop is organized with the support of the Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz (ULD) Schleswig-Holstein, the International Center fo...
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Marco Giacalone receives Best Paper Award: Cloud-Oriented Web Application for Legal Conflict Resolution
In November 2019, LSTS Postdoctoral Researcher Marco Giacalone, along with his co-authors Alessandra Amato, Flora Amato, Giovanni Cozzolino and Fransesco Romeo, received a Best Paper Award for the paper 'Design of a Cloud-Oriented Web Application for Legal Conflict Resolution Through...
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Prof Mireille Hildebrandt public lecture @25th Anniversary TILT
Prof Mireille Hildebrandt will give a Public Lecture for the 25th Anniversary of TILT on 12th November 2019 on Why micro targeting does not work and nevertheless disrupts the public sphere.
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Prof Paul Quinn: Has my DNA a right to privacy? (12 November 2019, UHasselt)
On 12 November 2019, Prof Paul Quinn will participate in a lecture and debate evening, organised by the University of Hasselt under the theme 'Has my DNA a right to Privacy?' . The debate will be moderated by Stijn Meuris.
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Lunchtime panel on web crawling and data protection (26 November 2019, Brussels Privacy Hub)
On 26 November 2019, the Brussels Privacy Hub and the Horizon 2020-funded research project Cyber-Trust | Advanced Cyber-Threat Intelligence, Detection, and Mitigation Platform for a Trusted Internet of Things co-organise a panel, under the title: Of spiders and robots: webcra...
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New VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies
On 1 October 2019, the VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies started. The Chair is based at the LSTS research group and is supported by the research groups CRiS and SMIT. The Chair is coordinated by Professor Dr.
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Specifying the GDPR: Launch of resources webpage and kick-off event (12 November 2019, Brussels)
LSTS is happy to announce the launch of a webpage with resources on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), prepared in the context of the 'Specifying the GDPR: Member States' perspectives' series of events organised by the Brussels Privacy Hub (BPH). The resources can be reached...
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Training activities and PETs: Prof Paul de Hert and István Böröcz at 41st ICCDPC (Tirana, Albania)
Upon the occasion of the 41st International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners (ICDPPC) in Tirana, Albania from 21 to 24 October 2019 , LSTS researchers participated as speakers and organisers of side events.
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Policy brief #2 on methods for data protection impact assessment
On 5 November 2019, the d.pia.lab published their 2nd policy brief on methods for impact assessment.
Dariusz Kloza, Niels van Dijk, Simone Casiraghi, Sergi Vazquez Maymir, Sara Roda, Alessia Tanas and Ioulia Konstantinou (2019) ‘Towards a method for data protection impact asses...
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Laura Drechsler on algorithmic discrimination @B.STS workshop
On 24 October 2019, Laura Drechsler (FWO, Brussels Privacy Hub, LSTS) gave a presentation together with Juan Carlos Benito Sánchez (FNRS, UC Louvain) on “Algorithmic discrimination from a Data Protection Law and an Anti-Discrimination Law perspective” during the B.STS (Belgian, Scie...
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New vacancies with COHUBICOL: Two postdoc researchers in CS and 'legal tech' (Deadline: 15 December 2019)
This is your chance to dig into the fundamental assumptions underlying computer science, teasing out the implications they may have for real life applications, notably those of 'legal tech' .
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Frederike Zufall @AIELN Conference "International Trade Regime for the Data-Driven Economy“
Frederike Zufall is speaking at ‚The 6th Biennial Conference' of the Society of International Economic Law’s Asian International Economic Law Network (AIELN).
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