300 academics across Europe and beyond call for the EU and academic institutions to halt ongoing research projects that may directly or indirectly violate international law and human rights. You can read our arguments/proposals/sign our letter below: statewatch.org/news/2024/febr…

Together with 300 academics, our open letter proposes a series of substantial and immediate actions for the EU and academic institutions to address their risk of becoming complicit to human rights violations and genocide through their participation in research projects🧵

♀️ Op #InternationaleVrouwendag zetten we graag een aantal vrouwen op een rij die volgens ons enorm bijdragen aan een open, eerlijke en inclusieve toekomst. Ze inspireren ons, en wie weet kunnen ze ook jou inspireren. waag.org/nl/article/zon…

Wij zijn sceptisch over de AI-verordening. De bescherming van mensenrechten bij het gebruik van AI is alles behalve vanzelfsprekend. Lees meer: bitsoffreedom.nl/2023/12/09/de-…

The EU Parliament has adopted the EU AI Act with a broad majority. It regulates AI by risk, but it's a mixed bag. Some promising parts, but also some troubling aspects, like the broad law enforcement exceptions which could endanger our privacy and free speech rights.

WATCH🚨If you watched this video of UC Berkeley Law Dean Chemerinsky + wife Catherine Fisk assault a law student, watch this longer clip Student HAD NOT EVEN MENTIONED PALESTINE. She had done a traditional Islamic greeting for Ramadan. This is incredibly racist! Next level unhinged

Celebrating May 1 with a simple message: free Palestine, stop the genocide. Solidarity with the students of Columbia & everyone protesting & informing us from whatever position they hold and in whatever condition they’re in.

🎉We are pleased to announce that Joris van Hoboken has been appointed, per 1 March 2024, as a full professor at IViR, to the chair ‘Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure’. ivir.nl/joris-van-hobo…

Some personal professional news: very honored to have been appointed to full professor in Information Law, with special emphasis on 'Law and Digital Infrastructure' at my alma mater UvA Amsterdam and intellectual home IViR

FNV members at UvA voted overwhelmingly in favour of the trade union becoming involved in the struggle for the right to demonstrate at UvA, and for the breaking of relations with institutions complicit in human right abuse. Congratulations!

At #MozFest panel ‘We are life: AI Accountability During War’ The amazing @marwasf tells us about technologies of death: “Palestine has long been a laboratory for the development of Israeli military and surveillance tech. These systems existed before the current war.”

Sterk antwoord op de 15 rectoren door de studenten: "Wij studenten blijven protesteren totdat de rectoren naar ons luisteren" trouw.nl/opinie/opinie-…

No place is safe in Gaza. The head of UNRWA said “Gaza has been decimated... Children are dying of malnutrition and dehydration, while food and clean water wait in trucks” aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/23…