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Simone van der Hof

@joix.bsky.social
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Professor of Regulating Digital Technologies | Privacy, Data Protection, Commercial Exploitation, Digital Play, Digital Child Rights | Center for Law & Digital Technologies (eLaw), Leiden University

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michael veale @michae.lv · 02/10/2026
European Commission seeking feedback on this proposal here if anyone wants to submit their thoughts ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... thanks for the heads-up @joix.bsky.social
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European Commission - Have your say
European Commission - Have your say
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Simone van der Hof @joix.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Call for expressions of interest: Join our comparative initiative to work on questions about children's legal capacity to conclude online transactions in games, etc and share your own research! Info in comments. Express interest: survey.uu.nl/jfe/form/SV_... @cgoanta.bsky.social @laade.bsky.social
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Terms of Growing Up - Expression of Interest
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
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Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · 15/04/2026
New on @indicator.media: With @mattburgess1.bsky.social at @wired.com, I built a map of the reported cases where AI was used to create nonconsensual intimate imagery within schools around the globe.
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More than 640 students have been targeted by AI nudifiers across 28 countries
Indicator’s map of school-related incidents shows the global reach of these tools of abuse
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Wouter @wouter-n.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
"Some claim EU digital law holds back innovation. But there’s nothing innovative about exploiting children to maximize profit. What’s truly groundbreaking is designing apps and games that take children’s rights and well-being seriously."
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Simone van der Hof @joix.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
What is the role of law in regulating social media’s impact on children? Read my blog post on Media@LSE where I discuss some improvements necessary in EU digital law to better protect children's rights and well-being: blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...
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The role of the law in regulating social media’s impact on children - Media@LSE
Professor Simone van der Hof of Leiden University details her arguments to the European Parliament’s CULT Committee on the effects of social media on children.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Facebook tracked when adolescent girls deleted selfies so it can serve a beauty ad to them at that moment. 😳
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Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads
A recent tell-all by a Facebook insider reveals the insidious nature of Facebook's advertising empire, and the dangerous consequences.
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Martin Husovec @hutko.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This an interesting comparative report on online safety regulations around the world (hat tip to Cesare Pitea) bhr.stern.nyu.edu/publication/...
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NYU Stern Center for Business & Human RightsOnline Safety Regulations Around The World: The State of Play and The Way Forward – A Resource Guide
Our new resource guide breaks down and analyzes 26 online platform regulations around the world across 19 jurisdictions, and offers a blueprint for future regulation of the online space consistent wit...
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Re-upping this blog post, because it took me freakin' ages to write. What do we talk about when we talk about AI? Is it a field of technology or an extractive social process that makes a few people rich and powerful? And why is it so hard to define? www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...
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What we talk about when we talk about AI — Careful Industries
Can AI really do all of the things people want it to do — and what exactly are people actually talking about when they talk about AI? Yutong Liu & The Bigger Picture   / https://betterim...
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 30/04/2025
Interesting CfP for all gamestudies folks out there interested in phenomena like self-referentiality and meta-textuality in games and videogames >> www.gamesbeyond.org/home <<
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Games Beyond
Welcome to the website of the international conference "Games & Game Studies Beyond Postmodernism". The conference will take place at the University of Konstanz, on 4-5 September, 2025. The Call for P...
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Timo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
🚨 Want to join me at the Technical University of Munich? I’m hiring a PhD student (100%) in the area of the political economy of technological change! 📅 Apply by 18 May | Start Date: July (flexible) 🔗 More info & how to apply: hfp.heyrecruit.de?page=job&id=... ❓Reach out if you have any questions
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PhD position in the field of Political Economy of Technological Change bei Hochschule für Politik München
The Professorship Political Economy (Prof. Dr. Timo Seidl) invites applications for a PhD position in the field of Political Economy of Technological Change
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Jessica Ringrose @jessicaringrose.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This event will explore issues of abuse and harassment amongst youth online. May 20, 2025. London @ioe.bsky.social
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Sonia Livingstone @sonialivingstone.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
📢 Come to our book launch: The Platformization of the Family As family life becomes inseparable from technology, what does this mean for relationships? 🗓 Monday 20 Jan ⏰ 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CET 📍Online Register: www.uv.uio.no/iped/english... Read: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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The Platformization of the Family: Digital Book Launch - Department of Education
Increasingly, digital platforms are woven into the fabric of family life. What does this weaving look like, and how do we research it? Welcome to this digital launch of the book «The Platformization o...
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Andrew Maynard @andrewmaynard.net · 10/11/2024
started a Starter Pack of people with something interesting to say about technology, society and the future -- who else should be here? go.bsky.app/PYtcTt5
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Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Excited to share that AI Snake Oil is one of Nature's 10 best books of 2024! www.nature.com/articles/d41... The whole first chapter is available online: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... We hope you find it useful.
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Frederike Kaltheuner @frederike.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Meanwhile targeted ads to people with gambling addiction are rampant - I always thought that is one of the most vile manifestations of surveillance capitalism
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Luis Alberto Montezuma 路易斯·阿尔贝托·蒙特祖玛 @montezumachavez.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The end of a privacy era thanks to @carlykind.bsky.social: The Australian Information Commissioner has agreed to a $50 million payment program as part of a settlement with Meta Platforms, Inc. www.oaic.gov.au/news/media-c...
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Simone van der Hof @joix.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Feed me #caturday
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Simone van der Hof @joix.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Faithless Champion Sound Tour 2024 | Great show 🔥🔥🔥
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Gry Hasselbalch @gryhasselbalch.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Just received the book proofs from the publisher! So close. Years of work culminating. Wow www.routledge.com/Human-Power-...
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Simone van der Hof @joix.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Mijn interview met @nrc.nl over kinderen en social media. Als je kinderen verbiedt op sociale media te komen, blokkeer je een heel deel van hun leven, incl positieve kanten. Het probleem is het ontwerp van die diensten. Dat is niet gezond. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/...
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Sociale media verbieden lost niets op, zegt hoogleraar. ‘Dwing platformen veilig te zijn voor kinderen’
Sociale media: Australië gaat sociale media verbieden voor kinderen onder de zestien jaar. Slecht idee, vindt Simone van der Hof, hoogleraar recht en digitale technologie. „Je blokkeert een deel van h...
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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Since approximately gazillion people have joined lately, I’ve updated my extremely random starter pack of UK and Europe tech, AI, law & policy folk go.bsky.app/TJ2xTce
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Sonia Livingstone @sonialivingstone.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
How do neurodiverse children and adolescents experience digital spaces? Read Hannah Coulstock’s literature review and advice for parents and carers navigating this new environment. #DigitalYouth #Parenting4DigitalFutue blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4di...
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Bytes of advice: parenting neurodiverse children in the digital world
As the digital world continues to blend with the real one, and as the prevalence of neurodiversity increases as well, people, especially parents, may wonder how to navigate the relationship between…
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Tom van der Meer @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Door nu in te stemmen, zijn deze bezuinigingen wel degelijk de plannen waar het CDA actief voor kiest. Letterlijk.
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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
In welke bochten het CU en CDA zich ook wringen, het is een bezuiniging op het hoger onderwijs om belastingkorting mogelijk te maken voor het grote bedrijfsleven, en wat snippers voor het volk.
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Remco Breuker 🟥 @remcobreuker.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Maar je kiest er wel voor. De rest is retoriek. Je. Kiest. Hier. Voor. Own it.
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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Het CDA, CU & Co hadden tegen Wilders kunnen zeggen: redelijke argumentatie laat zien dat deze bezuinigingen funest zijn voor Nederland. En ze zijn niet nodig, als we de belastingverlaging op de meest vermogenden niet doorvoeren. Dus dáár heeft CDA voor gekozen. Erken dat dan tenminste, lafaard.
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Welcome to Bluesky 🦋 The European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) is now here too: @edmo-eu.bsky.social EDMO is a unique stakeholder in the battle against #disinformation. It unites scholars, fact checkers, media literacy communities, and policy work. Share this and make EDMO blue 🚀🦋 edmo.eu
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EDMO – United against disinformation
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Remco Breuker 🟥 @remcobreuker.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Geslaagde #WOinActie demonstratie met fluitconcert bij Lipsius in Leiden. Er was nog een demonstratie in Leiden bij het Pieter de la Court.
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WOinActie.bsky.social @woinactie.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Woensdag nieuwe acties!
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Simone van der Hof @joix.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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Torin Monahan @torinmonahan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
We’ve just published a fabulous new issue of Surveillance & Society with a special Dialogue section on the #surveillance dimensions of #SyntheticData. The journal is always, fully #openaccess. Check it out, and please spread the word: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
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Simone van der Hof @joix.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Time for some music 🎶 #caturday
Black and white cat pressed between CDs in a box
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Martin Husovec @hutko.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
[Event alert] "Decoding DSA Risk Assessments and Audits", 22.1.2025 at LSE. I will interview @agnekaarlep.bsky.social, Curtis Barnes, and Prof. Lorna Woods - three leading (industry / academic) experts - about the first batch of reports. Pre-registration here: husovec.eu/2024/12/save...
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
More pressure being brought in the UK to ban social media for under 16s www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Some MPs want to ban smartphones for under 16s altogether news.sky.com/story/smartp... And one UK MP on SkyNews this morning wants a phone designed just for under 16s
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
these people are so clueless they disqualify themselves for power...
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Jaap-Henk Hoepman 🟥 ⬜️ 🟩 ⬛️ @xotoxot.eurosky.social · 02/12/2024
Marit Hansnen and I are co-curating a dedicated computer science track for the #CPDP.ai conference, because we believe CPDP and computer scientists could benefit from each other.
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Announcing the CPDP.ai 2025 Dedicated Tracks
CPDP is a conference about privacy and data protection. It offers a forum where different voices are heard and where positions are compared debated, approached or differentiated.
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Patricia Clarke @paticlarke.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
In 2021, a young man told his AI girlfriend he thought his purpose was to assassinate the Queen. She encouraged him to do it. He was later arrested at Windsor Castle holding a crossbow. That's the story that first got me interested in an AI "companionship" app called Replika 🧵
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 28/11/2024
Friends, this week marks a monumental step forward in my path towards pushing for a greater ecology of accountability in the age of AI. Thrilled to officially announce the AI Accountability Lab (AIAL) @theaial.bsky.social at Trinity College Dublin is launching today, Thursday Nov 28, 2024 aial.ie
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AI Accountability Lab
Stewarding a greater ecology of accountability in the age of AI
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Alderik @alderik.eurosky.social · 28/11/2024
"Pavel Popescu, the deputy chief of Romania’s telecoms regulator: “I call for the TikTok platform to be suspended in Romania as of Nov. 28 until state institutions finalize an investigation concerning the manipulation of the electoral process"" www.politico.eu/newsletter/b...
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Cele mai importante informații economice pe PROFIT.ro
Baza informațiilor de business, subiecte cu relevanță mare despre și pentru mediul de afaceri. Profit.ro vă oferă știri economice și din mediul de afaceri
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linnetelwin.bsky.social @linnetelwin.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Re-sharing this to tag Critical Data/AI colleagues who I’d love to see do their own regional starter packs. @ubisurv.net already made one, @spdesouza.bsky.social @azadehakbari.bsky.social @derechosdigitales.bsky.social @fleurjohns.bsky.social? go.bsky.app/Gi8YKJ1
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Rodrigo Fernandez @fernandezamsterdam.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Vandaag was er een hoopvolle demonstratie op het malieveld tegen de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs Een snelle rekensom laat zien dat er makkelijk 5,4 miljard euro verschoven kan worden. Deze bezuinigingen zijn een politieke keuze 🧵 Een draadje
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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
UN Women's report on femicide showed that, globally, the most dangerous place for a woman to be was in her home, where the majority of women die at the hands of men. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report
Of the 85,000 women killed by men in 2023, 60% died at the hands of a partner or family member, new UN figures show
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De Groene Amsterdammer @groene.nl · 25/11/2024
De jongeren van nu zijn anders dan voorgaande generaties: minder vrij. Ze houden elkaar via het internet nauwlettend in de gaten en worden verleid door traditionele ideeën over man en vrouw. Waar komt dit nieuwe conservatisme vandaan?
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Waar komen die steeds traditionelere denkbeelden van de onlinegeneratie vandaan?
De jongeren van nu zijn anders dan voorgaande generaties: minder vrij. Ze houden elkaar via het internet nauwlettend in de gaten en worden verleid door traditionele ideeën over man en vrouw. Waar…
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Remco Breuker 🟥 @remcobreuker.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
A growing starter pack for anyone interested in children’s rights and childhood studies go.bsky.app/RgNmwD6
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
These are pretty good tips! Especially about creating a real profile, investing some start energy, exploring starter packs, and getting used to a low-algorithm space 🦋🌈 #academicsky #academicchatter #commsky blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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How to get started with academic Bluesky
As prominent individual and institutional accounts eschew Twitter/X for new social media platforms, Bluesky is having a moment. Drawing on the experience of colleagues on the platform, Ned Potter, …
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 19/11/2024
Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Super helpful Law & Tech starter pack by @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social --realized I wasn't even following @orinkerr.bsky.social or @tiffanycli.bsky.social and other friends before!
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
UK gov would be wise to let Australian gov fail first with its under-16 ban....
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