In the media
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'GDPR is no excuse for not tracing children placed in care' 21 April 2022
The GDPR privacy legislation is no impediment to handing out sanctions to Russian oligarchs or reuniting children placed in care with their parents, s...
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Bart Custers in De Jurist on UBO register and privacy legislation 08 April 2022
Ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs) of companies should have registered their information in the Dutch UBO register before 27 March 2022. The Dutch Mini...
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Maartje van der Woude included in Leiden Top50 08 March 2022
Maartje van der Woude, Professor of Law and Society, has been included in the Leiden Top50 of 2022. The list includes women who stand out because they...
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Code for Children’s Rights to make internet safer for children 14 December 2021
The Dutch Code for Children’s Rights (Code voor Kinderrechten) provides guidance to designers and developers of apps and games on how they can protect...
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'Legislation to reveal identity internet troll also conceivable in the Netherlands' 03 December 2021
Australia wants to introduce a law that makes it possible to demand the identity of anonymous internet trolls. Is this be conceivable in the Netherlands?
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Bart Custers on EenVandaag about investigative powers of civilians 26 November 2021
Social media are playing a key role in calling for resistance to the corona measures. Online, agreements are made about where and when people will gat...
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Simone van der Hof in online talk show about Behavioral Design in Video Games 14 October 2021
On 7 October 2021 Simone van der Hof participated in an online talk show as part of the Dutch Media Week. The theme was the research project she is wo...
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Bashir Azizi: ‘Not war or civil war, but a global civil war’ 28 May 2021
These days we do not just have wars and civil wars – more of a global civil war, says Bashir Azizi, who received a PhD in April 2020 for his thesis on...
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eLaw publishes in Nature 27 May 2021
Researchers of eLaw, the Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University, published their research in Nature Machine Intelligence. The pu...
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Stories from Europe’s borderlands: A podcast series about living with, and resistance to, Europe's borders 10 May 2021
In the upcoming months, PhD candidates Neske Baerwaldt (FdR / VVI) and Wiebe Ruijtenberg (FSW / CAOS) will produce the ethnographic podcast series ‘Gr...
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Bart Custers: 'NCTV cannot track citizens using fake accounts' 12 April 2021
For years, the Dutch National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism (NCTV) has collected and shared privacy-sensitive information about citize...
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Anne Meuwese and Bart Custers in Trouw on Covid apps 06 April 2021
The more people are vaccinated, the more society can slowly reopen. Technological developments, like the Covid passport and other apps, can play a rol...
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Shopping by appointment: What happens to your personal data? 30 March 2021
In the Netherlands it is now possible to visit non-essential shops if you make an appointment beforehand. But when you book an appointment you have to...
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Article on Affective Computing by Andreas Häuselmann published in IDPL 16 March 2021
Affective Computing (AC and sometimes called ‘Emotional AI’) provides opportunities to automatically process emotional data. However, is EU data prote...
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Simone van der Hof in podcast on GDPR and children’s rights 28 January 2021
In a podcast of the Netherlands Internet Governance Forum (NL GF) and the Safer Internet Centre Nederland, Simone van der Hof, Professor of Law and Di...