Els Kindt
Associate Professor
- Name
- Dr. E.J. Kindt LLM
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 8838
- e.j.kindt@law.leidenuniv.nl
Els Kindt is since september 2016 a visiting Associate Professor and Researcher at eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies.
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Biography
Els Kindt obtained a Ph.D in law from KU Leuven Belgium on the topic of data protection aspects of biometric technologies. She teaches European Data Protection Law en Electronic Contracts at KU Leuven Campus Brussel and is a senior researcher at Citip, KU Leuven. She is also a lawyer at the Brussels Bar.
Research activities and interests
Els Kindt has been and is involved in various research projects, mainly funded by the EU Commission. Her area of research covers various domains including identity management, automated border control, biometrics and recently also new technologies for disaster management. She is also a (replacing) Member of the Belgian Privacy Commission at the National Registry Committee.
Associate Professor
- Faculty of Law
- Inst Interdisciplinary Study of the Law
- eLaw@Leiden
- Sumer B., Menéndez Gonzalez N., Elbi A., Jasserand C., Czarnocki J. & Kindt E.J. (2025), AI Act’s Ripple Effect on Biometric Data: Harmonising or Fragmenting the Regulation of Biometric Data. In: Prifti K., Demir E., Krämer J., Heine K. & Stamhuis E. (Eds.), Digital Governance: confronting the challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence. Information technology & law series no. 39. The Hague-Heidelberg: T.M.C. Asser Press-Springer. 165-181.
- Kindt E.J. (2025), EU biometric data regulation: Part 2: the AI act, IEEE Biometrics Council Newsletter 54: 30-41.
- Kindt E.J. (2025), Study concerning the prohibitions of Article 5.1(c) (social scoring), Article 5.1(d) (predictive policing), Article 5.1(f) (emotion recognition), and of Article 5.1(g) (biometric categorisation), and the procedural requirements for the exceptions to the real-time remote biometric identification prohibition in the Articles 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7 and 5.8 of the AI Act. : For the EU Commission per invitation to Tender EC-CNECT/2024/VLVP/0039 Study on Guidance Art. 5 AI Act, multiple prohibitions. Brussels: EU Publication Office.
- Kindt E. J. & Jasserand C. (2024), Chapter II Prohibited AI Practices. Article 5. Prohibited AI Practices. In: Pehlivan C. e.a. (Ed.), The EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act: A Commentary: Kluwer Law International. 105-192.
- Kindt E.J. & Fontanillo López C.A. (2023), Legal aspects of image morphing and image manipulation attack detection technology. In: Marcel S., Fierrez J. & Evans N. (Eds.), Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing: Presentation Attack Detection and Vulnerability Assessment. Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Singapore: Springer. 547-570.
- Kindt E.J. (2023), Waardigheid, autonomie en zelfbeschikking: vergeten waarden in de digitale werkomgeving?, Privacy & Informatie 2023(3): 97 (P&I 2023/109).
- Kindt E. J. (2023), EU Biometric Data Regulation: Past, Present, and a Look into the Future (Part 1): IEEE Biometrics Coucil, 48(December 2023): 32-42.
- Kindt E.J. (2022), Biometric data processing: Is the legislator keeping up or just keeping up appearances?. In: Gonzalez Fuster G., Van Brakel R. & De Hert P. (Eds.), Research Handbook on Privacy and Data Protection Law: Values, Norms and Global Politics. Research Handbooks in Information Law. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 375-401.
- E. Kindt C. A. Fontanillo López J. Bergholm J. Czarnocki O. Kanevskaia and J. Herveg (2021), Study on the Appropriate Safeguards under Article 89(1) GDPR for the Processing of personal data for Scientific Research . EDPB website: EDPB.
- Lalova T., Kindt E.J., Chelioudakis E., Verhenneman G., Delforge A. & Herverg J. (2020), Study on the secondary use of personal data in the context of scientific research: Final report no. EDPD/2019/02-04. Brussels: EDPB.
- Kindt E.J. (2019), Chapter 21. A legal perspective on the relevance of biometric presentation attack detection (PAD) for payment services under PSDII and the GDPR. In: Marcel S., Nixon M.S., Fierrez J. & Evans N. (Eds.), Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing: Presentation Attack Detection, Second edition. Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Cham: Springer. 481-501.
- Kindt E.J. (2018), Having yes, using no? About the new legal regime for biometric data, Computer Law and Security Review 34(3): 523-538.
- Ducuing Ch., Schroers J. & Kindt E.J., annotation: Court of Justice (Grand Chamber) 5 June 2018, no. C-210/16, ECLI:EU:C:2018:388. EDPL 4: 547-553 (The Wirtschaftsakademie fan page decision: a landmark on joint controllership – a challenge for supervisory authorities competences).
- Kindt E.J. (2018), De nieuwe Algemene Verordening (EU) 2016/679 Gegevensbescherming : Capita Selecta. In: Janssens M.C. (Ed.), IP en ICT recht. Brugge: Die Keure. 1-22.
- Kindt E.J., annotation: EHRM 22 February 2018, no. 588/13, ECLI:CE:ECHR:2018:0222JUD000058813, Computerrecht 2018(4): 216-223 (2018/163 Computerrecht 2018/163 Wie zoekt, die vindt? Over ‘persoonlijke documenten’ op werkcomputers van werknemers (Libert t. Frankrijk)).
- Kindt E.J. (2017), Grondige analyse en beoordeling vereist. Gevolgen van de nieuwe Europese verordening voor leerplatformen, TH&MA: Tijdschrift voor Hoger Onderwijs en Management : 34-38.
- Kindt E.J. (2016), Why research may no longer be the same: About the territorial scope of the New Data Protection Regulation, Computer Law and Security Review 32(5): 729-748.
- Kindt E.J. (2016), Wat brengt de nieuwe Verordening Gegevensbescherming?: Een eerste kritische analyse. In: VRG (Ed.), Recht in beweging: VRG-Alumniboek 2016. Antwerpen-Apeldoorn: Maklu. 489-506.
- Kindt E.J. & Hof S. van der (2016), Schoolplatformen en Verordening (EU) 2016/679: wat zijn de nieuwe verplichtingen en de rechten van het kind?, Tijdschrift voor Onderwijsrecht en Onderwijsbeleid 2016/2017(4): 281-293.
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