In the media
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Stories from Europe’s borderlands: A podcast series about living with, and resistance to, Europe's borders10 May 2021In 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 2021For 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 apps06 April 2021The 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 2021In 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 IDPL16 March 2021Affective 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 rights28 January 2021In 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-ups25 January 2021In 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 courtroom17 November 2020Can 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 troubling13 November 2020Libraries 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 disability08 October 2020We hardly ever seen people with a disability appearing on talk shows and other media channels. The Dutch Minister for Disability Issues, Rick Brink, d...
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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 sector28 August 2020The 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 algorithms27 July 2020Every 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 2020On 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 2020Prof. Jaap van den Herik was a guest in the latest episode of the Nationale Data Podcast.