eLaw at CPDP 2025
Last month, eLaw had a strong presence at the annual Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) conference in Brussels. All Law and Digital Technologies master's students attended the programme and many of our researchers made contributions: moderating panels, hosting book clubs, and presenting ongoing work.
One of the featured panels, 'The Problem of Many Heads: Fragmented Accountability in Multi-Agency Public Safety', was organised in connection to the ELSA Lab AI MAPS. Hosted at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the lab explores the ethical, legal, and societal aspects of AI in public safety contexts.
The panel highlighted one of the ELSA Lab’s core insights: public safety is inherently fragmented, involving a diverse array of stakeholders (from various public organisations to technology developers and providers), complicating accountability structures in turn. In this fragmented landscape, who gets to define the problem that a technology aims to solve? Whose voices are excluded? What perspectives are lost in translation between stakeholders? And who supervises how technological 'solutions' actually affect citizens, communities and nature?
A big thank you to the panelists for critically engaging with these complex questions and sharing their insights. Alongside eLaw’s own Nanou van Iersel (moderator) and Marlon Kruizinga (panelist), the panel included external experts Tundé Adefioye, Astrid Voorwinden, and Max Gahntz.
With CPDP 2025 wrapped up, we are proud of the strong presence and contributions of our eLaw colleagues. Until next year!
Curious to learn more? See the video below for this years panel.
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