In the media
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The Hague aims to attract legal tech start-ups 25 January 2021
In an interview with Jaap van den Herik, Professor emeritus Law and IT, legal magazine Mr. writes that The Hague municipality wants to attract more le...
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Jaap van den Herik in Universiteit van Vlaanderen podcast on computers in the courtroom 17 November 2020
Can a computer give just as good a judgment as a judge? Professor emeritus Law and IT believes it can and talks about using computers in the courtroom...
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Raisa Blommestijn: Removal of children’s books about Black Pete troubling 13 November 2020
Libraries in the Netherlands are removing books that contain references to Black Pete. According to the director of the Public Library Association, a ...
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Erwin Dijkstra: important for people to know that there are also academics with a disability 08 October 2020
We hardly ever seen people with a disability appearing on talk shows and other media channels. The Dutch Minister for Disability Issues, Rick Brink, d...
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'Data breach at Jeugdriagg can have life-long consequences for these children' 02 October 2020
An investigation by Dutch news site RTL Nieuws reveals that an error at the Regional Institute for Juvenile Outpatient Mental Healthcare (Jeugdriagg),...
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Privacy and the current registration requirement in the hospitality sector 28 August 2020
The Dutch Data Protection Authority is concerned about the way in which businesses in the hospitality sector are registering contact details of custom...
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Marlies van Eck: be conscious of discrimination in algorithms 27 July 2020
Every day we make use of devices, services and apps which contain algorithms that could be discriminating. These range from Facebook to self-driving c...
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Corona putting open Schengen borders under pressure? 16 June 2020
On 14 June 2020, Maartje van der Woude was invited to participate on NPO Radio 1 to talk about extra controls at borders to prevent the further spread...
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'Can computers judge court cases?' 19 March 2020
Prof. Jaap van den Herik was a guest in the latest episode of the Nationale Data Podcast.
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Construction of vast plastics plant by Shell: 'very painful' 11 March 2020
Shell, our country's largest company, is constructing a vast plastics plant in the United States. And it is doing so at a time when the European Union...
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Bart Custers on notification obligation data leaks 09 March 2020
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) has announced that 27,000 data leaks were reported in 2019, a huge increase compared to previous years. Bart...
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Correspondence article by Eduard Fosch-Villaronga in Nature Machine Intelligence 12 February 2020
Robot technology is flourishing in multiple sectors of society, including retail, health care, industry and education. However, are robots representat...
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Risk profiling Act SyRI off the table 06 February 2020
This week the regional court in The Hague gave a ruling that has attracted international attention. The State of the Netherlands (Ministry of Social A...
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Adriaan Bedner on NPO Radio 1 about controversial new law in Indonesia 07 October 2019
Mass student protests are taking place in Indonesia against the government. Shortly before a new parliament is to take office, the government wants to...
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'More than 41 million people worldwide are displaced in their own country' 30 September 2019
More than two-thirds of all displaced persons worldwide are not refugees but are homeless in their own country. According to experts, these people are...