
Tatiana Duarte spoke on Compliance by Design v. Legal Protection by Design (29 June 2022)
The word compliance entered our daily vocabulary, pervading the regulatory strategy and discourse in the European Union law. But what does it mean? What is its role in the legal system?
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Dr. Joanna Mazur visits LSTS
In June dr Joanna Mazur from the University of Warsaw visited LSTS. Dr Mazur presented her current work on data protection and cross-border transfers in regional trade agreements in a WRG session that took place on June 22.
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LSTS welcomes new Blog on its website!
The Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) Research Group is happy to witness the launch of a new Blog on its website. The LSTS Blog can be accessed from the landing page of the LSTS website or simply here.
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Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt presented on 'The Methodenstreit in Machine Learning’
Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt presented on The New Methodenstreit in Machine Learning at the International Conference on Explaining Machines , at the University of Bielefeld, Germany (the place where famous philosopher Luhmann worked most of his life).
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Tatiana Duarte spoke on Google and Apple Exposure Notifications System at Kozminski University (24 June 2022)
In April 2020 Google and Apple announced a joint project under whose constraints countries could develop proximity tracing apps, called Exposure Notifications (EN).
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A Blog for LSTS
In this inaugural post, LSTS Co-Directors Gloria González Fuster and Mireille Hildebrandt welcome the launch of this new platform.
The Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) Research Group is proud to witness the launch of a new blog.
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Quo vadis, data retention? The indeterminable quest for proportionality [June 2022]
LSTS researchers Lina Jasmontaite and Juraj Sajfert analyse the development of the notion of proportionality in recent case law of the Court of Justice on data retention.
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To define or not to define? International personal data transfers in the General Data Protection Regulation [June 2022]
LSTS/FWO researcher Laura Drechsler reflects on the need for a definition of data transfers for the General Data Protection Regulation.
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Dr. Desara Dushi delivers a lecture on the use of facial recognition by law enforcement (22 June 2022)
Facial recognition is used not only by the private sector. Its evolution has attracted the public sector too, especially law enforcement and border management. This has generated many debates on the impact on human rights.
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LSTS members participated to the EDPS conference on the future of data protection
On the 16th and 17th of June, the European Data Protection Supervisor held in Brussels a conference on the future of data protection. The conference saw the participation of prominent data protection scholars and experts from all over the world. Several LSTS members participate...
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The HALL project ‘Socio-Bee’ was mentioned in the Annual Report 2021 by the VUB Vice-rectorate Innovation & Industry Relations as a ‘success case'
The project ‘SOCIO-BEE’ where VUB participates with the Health and Ageing Law Lab (HALL) as sub-group of the Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) Research Group was show-cased in the VUB Annual Report 2021 by the Vice-rectorate Innovation & Industry Relations as a ‘success case’.
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The paper of Anastasiya Kiseleva and Paul Quinn ‘ARE YOU AI’S FAVORITE? EU Legal Implications of Biased AI Systems in Clinical Genetics and Genomics' is published at the European Health and Pharma Law Review (EHPL)
The latest issue of the European Health and Pharma Law Review (EHPL) has published the paper of Anastasiya Kiseleva written together with Professor Paul Quinn "Are You AI’S Favourite?
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