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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Proposed Data Act and its implications for business-to-government data sharing in smart cities (November 2022)
Marie-Sklodowska Curie Action's Fellow Barbara Lazarotto (LSTS) reflects on public-private data sharing and its implications on data subjects' rights. The Data Act was the last proposed Act of the European Data Strategy, issued on February 2022.
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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...
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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...
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Ideas for investigating the impact of algorithms on free speech in online platforms (October 2022)
E. Mantovani (LSTS), R. Sabbadini (guest author), A. Kumar (LSTS) and P. De Hert (LSTS) ponder upon the impact of algorithms on free speech and suggest a three-way plan of study.
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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’...
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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?
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Impact assessment for artificial intelligence: Protection-by-design of fundamental rights (September-October 2022)
Doctoral researcher Nikolaos Ioannidis (VUB, LSTS, CDSL) proposes a research agenda for ‘’impact assessment considerations in artificial intelligence applications’’ identifying commonalities between the proposed conformity assessment procedure, the data protection impact assessment process an...
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