New ‘Digital Services Act in Perspective’ Seminar Series kicking off on 27 October 2020
[Series of seminars] The responsibilities of online platforms, competition and antitrust rules, the fight against illegal content and disinformation online are at the top of the European Union’s agenda.
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Gender, Technology and Law Sessions October - December 2020
[Series of sessions] The Gender, Technology & Law initiative is happy to announce a new series of online sessions to take place in October, November and December 2020.
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Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt speaks at the public seminar 'Légiférer le risque' (Online, 14 Oct 2020)
On 14 October 2020, Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt will speak at the public seminar Légiférer le risque on ‘Risk reduction as a legal obligation’ and will engage in a discussion with Boris Vallaud, member of the National Assembly of France.
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VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies series of seminars: Silencing across borders with Marcus Michaelsen (23 October 2020)
[Series of seminars] The VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies presents its second seminar on 23 October 2020. Dr. Marcus Michaelsen will speak about 'Silencing across borders: Surveillance and digital threats against exiled dissidents and diaspora activists.
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Join Prof. Peter Burgess for the 2020-21 re-launch of the L(S)STS sessions!
[Series of events] Where has the magic gone? Modern legal thought as always had a clumsy and uncomfortable relationship to Max Weber’s famous slogan that modernity is the ‘disenchantment of the world’. Is it really only instrumental rationality that inhabits legal texts? Is there nothing more?
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Prof. González Fuster speaks at the 5th EDEN Event on Data Protection in Law Enforcement (Online, 15 October 2020)
[Event] On 15 October 2020, Prof. Gloria González Fuster will participate in the panel 'Show us your face, we tell you who you are? Facial recognition in criminal investigations' (15:00-15:45 CEST), part of the Online Conference 'EDEN goes to the Island&n...
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Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt keynoting at INTERSCT2020
[Keynote] On 15 October 2020, Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt will give a keynote at the (virtual) 2020 edition of INTERSECT. Conference on Cyber Security of Internet-of-Things .
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Mind reading via EEG – legal, ethical and practical matters (Webinar, 4 November 2020)
[Event] On 4 November 2020, the Brussels Privacy Hub and the Health and Ageing Law Lab will hold a webinar entitled "Mind reading via EEG – legal, ethical and practical matters ". Human evolution is induced and accelerated by technology.
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PERSONA "Handbook of integrated Impact Assessment: the case of new technologies for border control" upcoming early 2021
The VUB has concluded a contract with ASP Editions to publish the PERSONA project "Handbook of integrated Impact Assessment: the case of new technologies for border control", under the editorship of Prof. J. Peter Burgess and Dr.
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VUB Today interviews Prof. van Brakel about the Coronalert app
[Interview] Professor Rosamunde Van Brakel, as holder of the Chair of Surveillance Studies and member of the interfederal working group in charge of the development of the contract-tracing app Coronalert for Belgium was intereviewed by VUB Today about the launch of th...
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Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt gives a talk on Legal Protection by Design at Utrecht Data School
[Talk] On 29 September 2020, Prof.
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Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt to speak at 'Go with the Flow and Stay with the Trouble' book launch @Bozar
[Event] On Friday 25 September 2020, Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt will speak at the launch of the Book 'Go with the Flow and Stay with the Trouble'.
In the framework of the opening of the exhibition STARTS Prize ’20.
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