Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) Research Group

another day, another set of slides

YouTube video by CPDPConferences CPDP.ai 2025 - Correcting Wrong AI Data Can the Right to Rectification be of Help?

Next was a fantastic panel on applying the GDPR right to rectification to AI use cases with @ggf.bsky.social, Kleanthi Sardeli, Stephanie Rossello, and Anouk Focquet at @cpdpconferences.bsky.social. Highly recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C4U... (8/12)

The DSA as a tool in the fight against gender-based violence

Organised by @lsts-vub.bsky.social with @ggf.bsky.social (moderator), Asha Allen, Elisabetta Stringhi, Aleksandra Kuczerawy, Farieha Aziz

More information: cpdp.be/4576
#CPDP.ai #CPDP2025 #TheWorldisWatching

Brussels Privacy Hub Summer Academy 2025 Disruptive Tech Era  In recent years, the European Union (EU) has developed a Data Regulation Stack—a layered framework of legislation designed to govern d...

🚀 Registrations are open for the Brussels Privacy Hub Summer Academy 2025!

Join us June 16–20 in Brussels to decode the EU Data Regulation Stack—GDPR, AI Act, DSA & more—in an era of disruptive tech.

🔗 Sign up: events.vub.be/brussels-pri...

The 2025 Summer Academy in Global Privacy Law – Final Programme is Here! 🚀 From 16 to 20 June 2025, we’ll dive into the most pressing challenges at the intersection of data, AI, and the EU digital rulebook.

📌 Registrations are open: events.vub.be/brussels-pri...

In celebration of our 10th anniversary, we’re sharing expert insights on the future of privacy.

🎤 Prof. Gloria González Fuster @ggf.bsky.social shares her perspective on 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, and their impact on 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 over the next decade.

HELT TALKS - 5

In Brussels this Friday?
You are welcome us to talk about the the digital divide in healthcare...
Registration is free, but mandatory!
@lsts-vub.bsky.social @hall-vub.bsky.social
hall.research.vub.be/helt-talks-5

Smart governments | 10 | The pitfalls of big data in public administra This chapter discusses the evolution of technology deployment in public administration, from ancient record-keeping to modern data-driven decision-making. It

I’m excited to announce my chapter in Social Informatics will soon be available for purchase! The chapter outlines the pitfalls of "smart governments" and big data in public administration. With the rise of US DOGE, these insights are more crucial than ever.

www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Regulate fast, figure out the details later – the EU’s approach to AI The EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act came into force in August last year. Yet as Gloria González Fuster explains, there remain more questions than answers about how the EU’s approach to AI will fun…

💥 New: Regulate fast, figure out the details later – the EU’s approach to AI

✍️ @ggf.bsky.social #AIActionSummit blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

join us online on Thursday to discuss #gender data, complaints and the #GDPR in general! dataprotectionscholars.network/post/monthly...

join us on 28 January 2025!
#DPD2025 👋 official website, where the event will be livestreamed: cpdp-dataprotectionday.eu linkedIn event: www.linkedin.com/events/72591...

Pia Groenewolt Pia Groenewolt joined the VUB’s Law, Science, Technology and Society research group in September 2022 to work on the Data4food2030 project. As a Ph.D. candidate, she works under the supervision of

I just got @lsts-vub.bsky.social research profile updated as I deleted my twitter, and it'sgone for good, was nice when it lasted, but it's pretty gross now.
Let's normalise leaving and deleting toxic platforms! lsts.research.vub.be/pia-groenewolt

🔥 Now online! The 3rd episode of the EDPS/LSTS 'Oral history of #dataprotection': 'Becoming independent' with Waltraut Kotschy www.edps.europa.eu/press-public... #privacy #privacysky

Following my lecture at Bocconi on Data Protection and Data Law in South America, I am happy to share my Working Paper on the same topic!

For the report and others published by the Hub, check out

🔗https://brusselsprivacyhub.com/working-papers/

Front-cover of the handbook chapter on Databases.

Thrilled to share this upcoming publication - a chapter on 'Databases' in the Digital Criminology handbook. The paper is OA, and a version is available here: tinyurl.com/yrev8bea

AI centre FARI: 'We can test robots and new technologies here' FARI is an independent AI initiative led by the VUB and ULB. We visited their offices at Central Station and talked to experts and managers about the future of AI.

if you ever pass by Brussels' Central Station you might stumble upon FARI, VUB/ULB's #AI Centre of which LSTS is a proud founding member www.bruzz.be/en/videoreek...

Mini video series: Oral history of data protection - Towards Convention 108 The second episode of the Oral History of Data Protection features Mr Peter J. Hustinx and focuses on the work that led to the Council of Europe’s Convention for the Protection of Individuals with reg...

episode #2 of the 'Oral history of ##dataprotection' now online! europa.eu/!KGWGcF an EDPS / @lsts-vub.bsky.social collaboration

Interested in #AI regulatory #sandboxes? Should you? Register now for the lunch of the report 'From Blueprint to Reality: Implementing AI Regulatory Sandboxes under the #AIAct' & join the discussion 🗓️ 17 Dec 2024, 12:00-14:00 📍FARI, Cantersteen 16, Brussels www.eventbrite.fr/e/lunch-talk...

thanks! we love science indeed, but for reference the correct name is Law, Science, Technology & Society 😉

into #dataprotection CJEU case law? join us tomorrow for a DPSN/LSTS Digital Coffee on C-768/21 (Land Hessen), about DPAs' exercise of corrective powers under Art 58(2) #GDPR 🗓️ online event Wed 27 Nov 2025 at 1.30 pm CET, all info dataprotectionscholars.network/post/monthly... #PrivacySky #EUdatap

'Secret #Surveillance in Georgia: The Urgent Need for Reform to Ensure Respect for #EU Values and Standards’: LSTS Doctoral Seminar with Ketevani Kukava 🗓️ Join us 10 December 2024, 12:30h - 13:30h CET! hybrid event; all info: lsts.research.vub.be/lsts-doctora...

Share your research with many others working in or around data protection and technology! Send your abstract by 18 December - more info below: