Police and Social Media : An Overview and Early Assesment

On Monday 7 October 2013 Daniel Trottier will deliver a lecture titled 'Police and Social Media : An Overview and Early Assesment', on how police and other law enforcement agencies are facing the challenges and opportunities linked to the emergence of social media platforms. Daniel Trottier is a postdoctoral fellow at the Communication and Media …

MUSIC & SURVEILLANCE #5 Diamond Dogs

The new MUSIC & SURVEILLANCE episode is about a record published in 1974, 'Diamond Dogs', which was supposed to be David Bowie's take on George Orwell's dystopian novel 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'. Bowie started working on it in 1973, but he was denied by the author's estate the right to produce his own adaptation, and decided to …

PRESCIENT CLSR special issue out now

The PRESCIENT special issue of Computer Law & Security Review has just been published. Edited by Serge Gutwirth and Michael Friedewald in the context of the PRESCIENT FP7 project, the special issue includes articles such as 'The legal construction of privacy and data protection', by Raphaël Gellert and Serge Gutwirth, 'Data protection by design and …

Cross perspectives on risk

LSTS researcher Raphaël Gellert will co-teach a seminar entitled 'Perspectives croisées sur le risque : sécurité, science et technologie, protection des données personnelles' (Cross perspectives on risk: security, science and technology, protection of personal data). He will teach the seminar during the first trimester of academic year 2013-2014 at Sciences Po Lille. His fellow teacher is …

First workshop on improving cooperation and coordination between data protection authorities

Vrije Universiteit Brussel – Research Group on Law, Science, Technology & Society (VUB-LSTS), Trilateral Research & Consulting LLP (TRI), Generalny Inspektor Ochrony Danych Osobowych (GIODO) and Universitat Jaume I (UJI) are currently conducting research on improving cooperation and coordination between data protection authorities (DPAs). Our project, undertaken in the framework of the action grants of …