The call for our Annual Conference is out . Start writing those abstracts! We are looking forward to hearing from you....

#ECJ: #EUlaw precludes the general and indiscriminate retention of traffic and location data relating to electronic communications for the purposes of combating serious crime #PersonalData 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_…

Last year, a team Data School together w. Janneke Gerards Utrecht University developed an impact assessment fundamental rights & algorithms commissioned by Ministerie van BZK & today this happened: 👇🏽

Looking back to 2016, this book was what inspired my PhD proposal initially and was the 1st book I bought with my personal research budget. Nowadays I still quote from many chapters of the book. 👏🏻

Opportunity for a great PhD position:

An incredibly well-written and thoughtful piece on a mind bogglingly disturbing issue: ▫️500k iris scans from people in low-income countries in exchange for a cryptocurrency that may turn out to be worthless ▫️no plan on how to ever delete the data buzzfeednews.com/article/richar…

Exactly! Micro-gestures screams pseudoscience to me; Sending over human agents based on gender, language and ethnicity will cause even more stop&search of minority groups at the border; and accuracy (based on what) of maybe 85%?..This pilot would be a waste of money and harmful.

Very happy to be babysitting these two green beans this month. So far they are providing excellent support in my writing by snoring and being adorable in the background. They are turning 9 years old this year and definitely entered a 'nap all day' stage.

Really looking forward to watching this roundtable on the AI Act in the context of criminal justice authorities. It's such an important topic and the criminal justice context is not discussed that often yet when it comes to regulation of AI:

Extra, extra, read all about it! Future of Privacy Forum released today a mega report summarizing #GDPR case-law on Automated Decision Making #ADM, that @sbarrosvale and myself worked on for almost a year. We’re looking at 70ish cases, DPA opinions and guidelines. Here we go🧵1/?

Het wordt tijd dat actoren verantwoordelijk voor het gebruik van bepaalde systemen beseffen dat als technologie niet wordt ingezet voor individuele besluitvorming, dat niet betekent dat die inzet geen schadelijke gevolgen heeft/kan hebben voor groepen en individuen.

Join us for a #TILT seminar with Maša Galič & Lonneke Stevens from Faculty of Law VU! ❝Minding the gap: the regulation of predictive policing between criminal procedure & data protection law❞ 🗓️14 June, 14.30 CET 📍 Online & M1300 🗨️Moderator: Sascha van Schendel tilburguniversity.edu/research/insti…

Personally I think that we need much more discussion on the gaps and interaction between data protection law and criminal procedural law. So I'm delighted that we have 2 excellent speakers to discuss this topic. Join us in Tilburg next Tuesday! Info below:

It was a beautiful day filled with gratitude from many colleagues, sharing good memories, and hearing valuable reflections from Kees also on his time at TILT/TiU. 👏🏻

First report on the application and functioning of the Data Protection Law Enforcement Directive (EU) 2016/680 (‘LED’). See ec.europa.eu/info/sites/def… Appreciated Steve Peers for sharing it with us.

Today I joined Erasmus School of Law as Professor of #publiclaw and #sustainability ! I look forward to meeting my new colleagues and am very thankful to my old and new, direct and indirect colleagues, friends and family who have made this possible! eur.nl/en/esl/news/le…

Het afgelopen jaar zat ik in de WODC begeleidingscommissie voor het uitstekende rapport van ⁦Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society⁩ over persoonsgegevens in relatie tot de AVG. Vandaag is dat rapport openbaar geworden en naar de Tweede Kamer gezonden. wodc.nl/actueel/nieuws…

I'm happy to announce our Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society report on the #GDPR for @wodc_nl! We researched what tech developments mean for the concept of personal data & to what extent identifiability can still work as a criterium for data protection law. Report in English: repository.wodc.nl/handle/20.500.…

Een mooie editie van Cahiers politiestudies! Daarin ook een artikel over mijn doctoraal onderzoek, geschreven tezamen met Colette Cuijpers: "Een pleidooi voor de integratie van fundamentele mensenrechtenbescherming in het strafprocesrecht".