In the media
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'Legislation to reveal identity internet troll also conceivable in the Netherlands' 03 December 2021
Australia wants to introduce a law that makes it possible to demand the identity of anonymous internet trolls. Is this be conceivable in the Netherlands?
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Bart Custers on EenVandaag about investigative powers of civilians 26 November 2021
Social media are playing a key role in calling for resistance to the corona measures. Online, agreements are made about where and when people will gat...
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Simone van der Hof in online talk show about Behavioral Design in Video Games 14 October 2021
On 7 October 2021 Simone van der Hof participated in an online talk show as part of the Dutch Media Week. The theme was the research project she is wo...
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Bashir Azizi: ‘Not war or civil war, but a global civil war’ 28 May 2021
These days we do not just have wars and civil wars – more of a global civil war, says Bashir Azizi, who received a PhD in April 2020 for his thesis on...
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eLaw publishes in Nature 27 May 2021
Researchers of eLaw, the Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University, published their research in Nature Machine Intelligence. The pu...
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Stories from Europe’s borderlands: A podcast series about living with, and resistance to, Europe's borders 10 May 2021
In the upcoming months, PhD candidates Neske Baerwaldt (FdR / VVI) and Wiebe Ruijtenberg (FSW / CAOS) will produce the ethnographic podcast series ‘Gr...
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Bart Custers: 'NCTV cannot track citizens using fake accounts' 12 April 2021
For years, the Dutch National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism (NCTV) has collected and shared privacy-sensitive information about citize...
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Anne Meuwese and Bart Custers in Trouw on Covid apps 06 April 2021
The more people are vaccinated, the more society can slowly reopen. Technological developments, like the Covid passport and other apps, can play a rol...
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Shopping by appointment: What happens to your personal data? 30 March 2021
In the Netherlands it is now possible to visit non-essential shops if you make an appointment beforehand. But when you book an appointment you have to...
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Article on Affective Computing by Andreas Häuselmann published in IDPL 16 March 2021
Affective Computing (AC and sometimes called ‘Emotional AI’) provides opportunities to automatically process emotional data. However, is EU data prote...
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Simone van der Hof in podcast on GDPR and children’s rights 28 January 2021
In a podcast of the Netherlands Internet Governance Forum (NL GF) and the Safer Internet Centre Nederland, Simone van der Hof, Professor of Law and Di...
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The Hague aims to attract legal tech start-ups 25 January 2021
In an interview with Jaap van den Herik, Professor emeritus Law and IT, legal magazine Mr. writes that The Hague municipality wants to attract more le...
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Jaap van den Herik in Universiteit van Vlaanderen podcast on computers in the courtroom 17 November 2020
Can a computer give just as good a judgment as a judge? Professor emeritus Law and IT believes it can and talks about using computers in the courtroom...
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Raisa Blommestijn: Removal of children’s books about Black Pete troubling 13 November 2020
Libraries in the Netherlands are removing books that contain references to Black Pete. According to the director of the Public Library Association, a ...
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Erwin Dijkstra: important for people to know that there are also academics with a disability 08 October 2020
We hardly ever seen people with a disability appearing on talk shows and other media channels. The Dutch Minister for Disability Issues, Rick Brink, d...