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...

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...

Robot technology is flourishing in multiple sectors of society, including retail, health care, industry and education. However, are robots representat...

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...

Mass student protests are taking place in Indonesia against the government. Shortly before a new parliament is to take office, the government wants to...

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...

The paper "Does the GDPR Enhance Consumers’ Control over Personal Data? An Analysis from a Behavioural Perspective" which our researcher dr. Helena U....

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...

PhD Candidate Sabine K. Witting has published an article ‘Regulating bodies: child sexuality in the digital era’ in the Critical Quarterly for Legisla...

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...

Companies like Facebook and Google make billions of dollars by selling or using our personal data. The data could be used by many different entities f...

When collecting data, designers and researchers often assume men where all people are intended. This is not only inept, it is also dangerous.

In March 2019 a new Computer Crime Act took effect in the Netherlands. As a result, Dutch police now have extensive powers to tackle cybercrime. Innoc...

On 11 January 2019, Maastricht University and the University of Groningen hosted a workshop on the regulation of social media influencers.

More and more companies are watching while you surf the internet. Robbert van Eijk, dual PhD student on the program of Leiden University Dual PhD Cent...