I'm honored & humbled that my paper, "The Prediction Society: AI and the Problems of Forecasting the Future" w/ Daniel J. Solove was selected for the Future of Privacy Forum Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award (fpf.org/blog/this-year…).  Our draft is accessible at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

NEW PAPER Has China's Personal Information Protection Law followed the EU approach to data protection? Has the Brussels Effect evidently extended to China? In a new paper w Jiahong Chen, our answer to both questions is NO. A 🧵

Excited to announce that I planted my pear tree on Valentine’s Day 🥳

🌟Another big news - we are launching our innovative and multi-disciplinary summer school on #DigitalHealth Technologies: Law, Ethics and Regulatory Issues, co-hosted with Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Digital Health on June 3-7 2024 in Brussels. Pre-registration is already open and more details are to come!

The very cool prof Nikolaus Forgó is hiring:

🎙️The final programme of the #HELT2024 symposium is out now! Don't miss out on the insights of expert speakers from multiple areas and disciplines related to #healthAI and #healthdata. Register via hall.research.vub.be/helt-symposium…

My slide from our panel at CPDP Conferences #CPDPai2024 setting out what I see as existential #privacy & data protection challenges for #AI to overcome. As mentioned, these are not impossible problems to resolve, but it is our collective job to find a pragmatic way forward.

Learned from #CPDPai2024 this very intriguing visualization of the huge disparity of social equality levels among different neighborhoods in Brussels and its impacts on health bxl-malade.medor.coop

Brief break from the final editing days of my PhD to share my latest article that was published in the EJLT titled 'The Regulation of Data Spaces under the EU Data Strategy: Towards the ‘Act-ification’ of the Fifth European Freedom for Data?'. ejlt.org/index.php/ejlt….

It is truly a heartwarming experience to meet people at CPDP every year like Eduard Fosch-Villaronga Francien Dechesne 🟥 Dara Hallinan and more who has brought me so much encouragement and inspiration #CPDP2024

🚀 Day 1 of our Summer School with Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Digital Health on Digital Health Technologies is well on its way with this great interdisciplinary group! We've already been treated to fascinating sessions and are ready for a full week of enriching discussions!

Last Friday, we closed our Summer School on Digital Health Technologies with inspiring presentations and a speech from rector Jan Danckaert. Huge thanks to our speakers, participants and all organising colleagues from Health & Ageing Law Lab and Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Digital Health. See you next year in Dresden!

Very pleased to say the paper is now published, open access! doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr… Will also be presenting the paper at #ICA24 next week. Huge thanks to Hunter Stewart, Maria Tzanou, Mark Jia for feedback and to 𝚆𝚎𝚗𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝙻𝚒 for taking the lead. International Communication Association School of Law, Sheffield

🚨POSTDOC JOB ALERT! eLaw Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden Law School Leiden University is looking for a #postdoctoral researcher for the European Research Council (ERC) StG #SafeandSound project. Wanna work with Eduard Fosch-Villaronga & an amazing team on #science for #robot #policy? Check it out! universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2024…

I think I'm quite open to sharing data for the common good but it's a bit shocking to read this

some familiar 😀 faces as seen on VUB IG 🌟

The first HELT talks will be on the 27th September in Brussels. The theme will be the "Secondary Use of Electronic Health Data under the EHDS Regulation for Health-related Scientific Purposes" involving by Prof. Dr. Thomas Berlage and Prof. Dr. Peter-Bram 't Hoen.

I had an amazing time last week in Warsaw presenting my research on the second use of health data and received valuable feedback from many colleagues, plus the Polish food and weather were a bonus! 🇵🇱

🚨 Join us for HELT Talks #2: "Challenges of the EU's Medical Devices Regulations" with regulatory expert Erik Vollebregt to explore the impact of the EU’s medical device regulations and how they intersect with the GDPR, AI Act, Cybersecurity & more. hall.research.vub.be/helt-talks-2

Nice to see the guidelines on scientific research occupying a place on the to-do list throughout the years