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Brussels Privacy Hub Co-Director Prof. Malgieri was invited by Debating Europe to participate in a panel on the future of Data Privacy. The panel titled 'What’s the future of data privacy? Engineering and invention in the world of data protection’, tackled the privacy paradox and the different...

Brussels Privacy Hub Co-Directors Prof. Kuner and Prof. Malgieri were invited to speak at the 44th Global Privacy Assembly taking place in Istanbul from 25 to 28 October. The Assembly, bringing together data protection authorities from throughout the world was titled ‘A Matter of Balance:...

Brussels Privacy Hub has organised a workshop on “Lawful Bases for Personal Data Processing on Social Networks” on 6 October 2022. High-level data protection experts from academia, data protection authorities, EU institutions and NGOs were invited to the workshop. The workshop was chaired by...

The University of Luxembourg, in collaboration with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, will organise the final Conference of the Making Transparent the Invisible Surveillance (MATIS) Project.  The conference will be held in-person at the University of Luxembourg on 1 and 2 December, and will...

Brussels Privacy Hub Co-Director Prof. Kuner will speak at the Atlantic Council Europe Center discussion on the new transatlantic data privacy framework. The event will focus on the Executive Order signed by President Biden on 7 October instituting new US privacy safeguards, possibly leading up...

Brussels Privacy Hub Co-Director Prof. Gianclaudio Malgieri and LSTS Co-Director and Research Professor of Law at VUB, Prof. Gloria Gonzalez Fuster has co-authored an article titled as "The vulnerable data subject: A gendered data subject?". The article has been published by European Journal of...

As of 3 October 2022, Brussels Privacy Hub Co-Director Prof. Gianclaudio Malgieri has been appointed as an Associate Professor of Law at eLaw-Center for Law and Digital Technologies, Leiden University. We wish Prof. Malgeri success in his future professional endeavours. See the eLaw Leiden...

The sixth edition of the Brussels Privacy Symposium will take place on November 15, 2022, jointly presented by the Brussels Privacy Hub of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF). This year’s topic is “Vulnerable People, Marginalization and Data Protection”. This...

The University of Saint-Louis, in collaboration with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, will co-organise a Conference on recent Belgian Data Retention legislation.  The  conference will be held in French and Dutch from 9 AM - 1 PM, and will feature prof. Paul De Hert, co-founder and associated...

Brussels Privacy Hub Managing Director and LSTS/VUB PhD Researcher Muhammed Demircan has presented his upcoming article on the DMA-GDPR relationship at the 17th IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management 2022. His research was focused on "Digital Markets Act and GDPR: Making Sense of...