Privavyrede Universiteit Utrecht

6 september 2016: De Privacyrede.

Mireille Hildebrandt voorspelt dat ‘het’ onderwijs binnen vijf jaar radicaal zal veranderen. We hebben nu een systeem waarin de persoonlijke verhouding tussen leerlingen en docent centraal staat en de inhoud van over te dragen kennis. We gaan naar een datagestuurde leeromgeving waarin de meeste beslissingen worden genomen door al dan niet ‘lerende’ computersystemen. Die systemen worden gevoed met de meetbare prestaties en gedragsdata van studenten en docenten. Sommigen zien in deze mutatie het voorportaal van een nieuw paradijs, anderen ontwaren de contouren van de poort naar de hel. In deze rede geeft Hildebrandt aan hoe we hemel en hel kunnen vermijden door de komst van de datagestuurde leeromgeving onder ogen te zien en door op cruciale punten goed doordachte keuzes te maken.

Zie de geschreven versie: Datagedreven Onderwijs: Wijs of Onwijs?

En de live opname: Wijs of Onwijs: Datagedreven Onderwijs

See also her Edinburgh keynote at the Annual Conference of the Learning Analytics and Knowledge Society (LAK2016).

The European Handbook for Teaching Privacy and Data Protection at Schools

Under the framework of the ARCADES research project, for the past 18 months, three European data protection authorities (DPAs) – from Poland, Hungary and Slovenia – as well as the Research Group on Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) have looked for best practices in teaching privacy and personal data protection at schools. This common endeavour has resulted in a series of academic reports and articles, three seminars for teachers, three national contests for the best lesson plan and a final conference in Barcelona. The most recent deed, ‘The European Handbook for Teaching Privacy and Data Protection at Schools’, edited by Prof. Dr. Gloria González Fuster (VUB-LSTS) and Dariusz Kloza, LLM (VUB-LSTS & PRIO), was released in July 2016 in four linguistic versions: English, Polish, Hungarian and Slovenian.

Speaking Law to Power: secrets, spies and cowboys in a data-driven world

On 28th June 2016 Mireille Hildebrandt will speak at contemporary art centre Wiels on her recent book ‘Smart Technologies and the End(s) of Law. Novel Entanglements of Law and Technology’ (the paperback just came out with Edward Elgar). The lecture will discuss the implications of the ‘new digital unconscious’ that forms the playground for both cowboys and spies, rummaging through our secrets and trivialities to feed into new business models or to detect the patterns of predictable dangers.

BTW check out the exhibition of Simon Denny on the cusp of art, politics and silicon mountains.

          

 

New Novel Food – Taking a closer look at Regulation (EU) 2015/2283

picture by oskay (@flickr)

The VUB Food Forum, in cooperation with VUB’s Institute of European Studies (IES), is organising on 19 April 2016 a policy forum on ‘New Novel Food‘. In December 2015, the Union legislator adopted Regulation (EU) 2015/2283, thereby reforming the legal framework for novel foods marketed in Europe. Until 2018, the Regulation will entirely replace its 1997 predecessor Regulation. It re-defines novel food and introduces a centralised EU authorisation system with the aim of simplification, promoting new technologies and providing greater legal certainty. European citizens should have a broader choice of food, and Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 is meant to make that easier. The policy forum starts at 12:00 and will end at approximately 14:30. Participation is free of charge and open to all and there will be a sandwich lunch. To register, please visit this page.

ARCADES Final Conference

The ARCADES Project, concerned with Introducing Data Protection and Privacy at Schools in the European Union, will held its Final Conference in Barcelona on 4 March 2016. The conference is co-hosted by Eticas Research & Consulting and APDCAT (Catalan DPA). The project’s objective is to provide a useful tool for teachers of any EU school wishing to educate children and teenagers about privacy and personal data protection, in the form of a handbook. A joint workshop will be offered by the CNIL (French DPA) to discuss a draft Guide on competitions. The event is free, but registration is required. For further information, please find here the Invitation-ARCADES and the provisional agenda.

European Data Protection Law Summer School

pic by mmurtiato (@flickr)

The Brussels Privacy Hub is organising the 1st European Data Protection Law Summer School, an innovative course on privacy and personal data protection law at the heart of Europe. Under the title ‘Getting to Grips with the GDPR‘, the programme will explore legal and institutional challenges in the European Union, and provide participants with in-depth examination of the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other EU data protection instruments – as well as global and, more specifically, transatlantic privacy issues.

LSTS at 19th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2016

‘Knitting together’ by Kristina Alexanderson via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Almost as a tradition, the end of February marks each year a visit of VUB-LSTS researchers to the International Legal Informatics Symposium (IRIS) held in Salzburg, Austria. The bilingual, German-English IRIS has been established as the largest and most important academic conference on computers and law in Austria and Central Europe.

This year, Prof. Dr. Paul De Hert, Antonella Galetta and Dariusz (Darek) Kloza will partake in the 19th edition thereof, which will take place on 25-27 February 2016 and which is devoted to the concept of “Networks”.