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De Europese Data Act, die sinds september van kracht is, brengt een grote verandering teweeg in hoe bedrijven met data omgaan. Producenten van data-verwerkende producten, denk aan slimme toestellen en...

Website for IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management.

Classrooms are changing, AI tutors, adaptive learning, and automated feedback are increasingly becoming part of the educational toolbox. The need arises for reflection upon these new practices and the...

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OE CiTiP – Wetenschappelijk medewerker (junior - 100%) met bijzondere interesse in technologie (artificiële intelligentie) en recht

In this post, I examine a useful tool in critical infrastructure protection research, foresight methodologies. Introduced by the OECD, by employing those, researchers in the field can identify and add...

In early January 2026, Poland’s President Karol Nawrocki vetoed the DSA implementation act despite widespread pleas from civil society. The vetoed bill had been submitted for his signature by Parliame...

On 3 September 2025, the EU General Court dismissed Philippe Latombe’s challenge against the EU–US Data Privacy Framework. After the annulments of Safe Harbour and Privacy Shield, this decision is see...

The Data Act covers data flows from businesses to governments in the case of an exceptional need. This blog briefly explains the situations in which public actors could request data. We also examine s...

The “medium is the message”, coined by Marshall McLuhan, is a well known paradigm in communication sciences to indicate that the medium through which a message is conveyed can be more, or at least equ...

Following EDPS v. SRB, the Digital Omnibus proposal includes the so-called ‘relative’ approach to the definition of personal data in Article 4 GDPR. On the basis of a first analysis of the case law of...

In a context of the growing deepfakes proliferation, Open AI has added to the deepfake arsenal with the release of its new AI-powered text-to-video generator, Sora. Meanwhile, the Institute for Strate...

This blog post explores two aspects of the CJEU’s decision in the case that opposed the SRB and EDPS. It criticises the Court’s reasoning on pseudonymous data, while offering four reasons in support o...

This blogpost is the part. 1 of a trilogy. It provides an overview of the current legislative initiatives imposing age restrictions on social media and evaluates them from a children’s right perspecti...

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In a recent research, we looked into the European Union (EU) regulation of ‘artificial intelligence’ (AI) and sustainability. Our research led us to forge a new concept: ‘Regulatory solutionism’. Here...

Wanted: participants for our article 25 (4) AI-act policy prototyping exercise. This new project takes a closer look at the minimum requirements in contracts between providers of high-risk AI systems ...

The debate on Digital Omnibus has thus far placed insufficient emphasis on the role of smarter regulation as a starting point for simplifying administrative burdens. However, the broader development o...

Under the EU Design Regulation (‘EUDR’) and the Design Directive (recast) (‘DD recast’), design protection is envisioned not only for products, but also for parts of products (Art. 3(1) EUDR and Art. ...

After a long-awaited period, the Medical Device Coordination Group (MDCG) issued in June 2025 its first Q&A document on the interplay between the medical device regulations and the Artificial Intellig...

The recently adopted European Health Data Space Regulation marks a significant step toward the digitalisation of healthcare within the European Union, with the potential to improve the quality of medi...

Neurotechnology is moving from the lab bench to living rooms, clinics, and—increasingly—courtrooms. Devices that sense and stimulate the brain promise extraordinary therapeutic benefits: restoring mov...

‘Secure Processing Environments’ (SPEs) are being increasingly integrated into EU law regulating data access. As an emerging legal concept, we take a closer look at the position of the concept and the...

The EU AI Act, primarily focusing on health safety and fundamental rights of individuals, will play an often-overlooked yet critical role in improving cybersecurity technologies by its mandatory loggi...

Discussions around open data and re-use of public sector information (PSI) have increased and occupy a central role in the European Data Strategy. As a central part of this debate, one should differen...

This blogpost explores the application of the DGA to NFT platforms, focusing on their potential exclusion as ‘’copyright intermediaries’’ under Art 2(11)(b) DGA. It argues that, due to ambiguous legis...

The previous part of this blog post outlined the co-regulatory mechanisms that will be used to regulate GenAI and highlighted the role that CSOs should play in their development.  This follow-up blog ...

This blog post highlights a significant vulnerability in the AI Act’s regulation of generative AI (GenAI), namely its failure to prevent the power asymmetry between corporate entities and civil societ...

Doctoral researcher with a special interest in technology, law and children’s rights

Predicting future crime sounds like something out of a science fiction novel, but it’s already a reality in several countries. In the UK, the Ministry of Justice is reportedly developing a “homicide p...

In October 2024, the Belgian NIS2 law came into force. This law transposes the NIS2 Directive into Belgian law and establishes a policy on coordinated vulnerability disclosure (CVD), which tightens th...

When not forbidden by the AI Act, emotion recognition AI systems qualify as high-risk AI systems. However, the state-of-the-art research on emotion recognition justifies questioning the compatibility ...

While trustworthy AI has rightfully gained prominence for its potential to address the challenges and risks that can arise when designing, developing and deploying AI systems, the concept has evolved ...

Data spaces, as interoperable frameworks based on common governance principles, standards, practices and enabling services, are aimed to enable trusted data transactions between participants. In their...

Data spaces, as interoperable frameworks based on common governance principles, standards, practices and enabling services, are aimed to enable trusted data transactions between participants. In their...