In the media
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'Data breach at Jeugdriagg can have life-long consequences for these children' 02 October 2020
An investigation by Dutch news site RTL Nieuws reveals that an error at the Regional Institute for Juvenile Outpatient Mental Healthcare (Jeugdriagg),...
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Privacy and the current registration requirement in the hospitality sector 28 August 2020
The Dutch Data Protection Authority is concerned about the way in which businesses in the hospitality sector are registering contact details of custom...
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Marlies van Eck: be conscious of discrimination in algorithms 27 July 2020
Every day we make use of devices, services and apps which contain algorithms that could be discriminating. These range from Facebook to self-driving c...
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Corona putting open Schengen borders under pressure? 16 June 2020
On 14 June 2020, Maartje van der Woude was invited to participate on NPO Radio 1 to talk about extra controls at borders to prevent the further spread...
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'Can computers judge court cases?' 19 March 2020
Prof. Jaap van den Herik was a guest in the latest episode of the Nationale Data Podcast.
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Construction of vast plastics plant by Shell: 'very painful' 11 March 2020
Shell, our country's largest company, is constructing a vast plastics plant in the United States. And it is doing so at a time when the European Union...
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Bart Custers on notification obligation data leaks 09 March 2020
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) has announced that 27,000 data leaks were reported in 2019, a huge increase compared to previous years. Bart...
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Correspondence article by Eduard Fosch-Villaronga in Nature Machine Intelligence 12 February 2020
Robot technology is flourishing in multiple sectors of society, including retail, health care, industry and education. However, are robots representat...
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Risk profiling Act SyRI off the table 06 February 2020
This week the regional court in The Hague gave a ruling that has attracted international attention. The State of the Netherlands (Ministry of Social A...
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Adriaan Bedner on NPO Radio 1 about controversial new law in Indonesia 07 October 2019
Mass student protests are taking place in Indonesia against the government. Shortly before a new parliament is to take office, the government wants to...
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'More than 41 million people worldwide are displaced in their own country' 30 September 2019
More than two-thirds of all displaced persons worldwide are not refugees but are homeless in their own country. According to experts, these people are...
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Helena U. Vrabec's paper featured in Forbes 23 August 2019
The paper "Does the GDPR Enhance Consumers’ Control over Personal Data? An Analysis from a Behavioural Perspective" which our researcher dr. Helena U....
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Machine Learning Improves Cross-border Tax Estimates 26 July 2019
Multidisciplinary research has established that VAT-results are in practice six times lower than what it should have been. The new estimates rely on m...
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‘Regulating bodies: child sexuality in the digital era’ 19 July 2019
PhD Candidate Sabine K. Witting has published an article ‘Regulating bodies: child sexuality in the digital era’ in the Critical Quarterly for Legisla...
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eLaw in Ars Aequi 15 July 2019
Privacy continues to keep the attention: from MeToo! to Facebook. The legal magazine 'Ars Aequi' has published a special issue 2019 dedicated to the c...