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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'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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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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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...
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Bart Custers on CBC Radio on selling your own data 09 May 2019
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...
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'Artificial intelligence reinforces gender inequality' 05 April 2019
When collecting data, designers and researchers often assume men where all people are intended. This is not only inept, it is also dangerous.
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Bart Custers in Trouw on new cybercrime Act 29 March 2019
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...
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Legal tips for social media influencers 18 March 2019
On 11 January 2019, Maastricht University and the University of Groningen hosted a workshop on the regulation of social media influencers.