Events

 Upcoming events

  • 28 April 2023: guest lecture for VUB course ‘Data driven technology and society’.

Selected past events

  • 6 March 2023: invited speaker at ‘Integrating a gender perspective to privacy and data protection’ GPA Dialogue, Global Privacy Assembly. Video here.
  • 15-16 February 2023: Law, Tech and Theory seminar, University of Helsinki, Helsinki.
  • 25 January 2023: Chair of panel ‘Saving GDPR enforcement thanks to procedural harmonisation: Great, but how exactly?’ at Privacy Camp 2023, Brussels. Video available here (YouTube).
  • 6 December 2022: New Frontiers in Data Rights Workshop, VUB, Brussels.
  • 5 October 2022: Moderation of panel ‘AI and access to justice: The next ACT’, International Conference ‘Empowering Litigants While Disempowering Abuse. Conflicting Values in the Development of Legal AI’, Montreal. Video available here (YouTube).
  • 13 September 2022: Lecture on ‘AI, Race and Gender’ at KU Leuven Summer School on the Law, Ethics & Policy of AI, Leuven.
  • 5 July 2022: “Data protection law and the future AI Act”, EURA Summer School.
  • 25 May 2022: ‘Will the digital ever be non-binary? The future of (trans) data rights’ panel; organisation and chairing, CPDP 2022, Brussels. Video available here (YouTube).
  • 25 May 2022: speaker at panel ‘When privacy and data protection rule, who loses out?’, CPDP 2022, Brussels. Video available here (YouTube).
  • 13 May 2022: ‘El papel del TJUE como integrador del RGPD’, in ‘La aplicación del RGPD dentro de la UE’, Protección de las transmisiones de datos transfronterizas: Los límites del RGPD, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid.
  • 21 March 2022: Speaker at ‘Break-out session on Racialised communities and law enforcement’, European Anti-Racism Summit, European Commission.
  • 17 March 2022: Presentation at Panel 2 – “Focus on the enforcement scheme” of General Data Protection Regulation implementation, enforcement and lessons learned, LIBE Committee European Parliament. Video recording here.
  • 10 February 2022: Talk ‘Protection des données : une affaire personnelle, des enjeux collectifs?’, Séminaire Surveillance et manipulation des goûts et des opinions, Centre Internet et Société, CNRS.
  • 30 November 2021: Invited speaker at Centre Perelman (ULB) seminar, lecture on «  Intelligence artificielle et genre ».
  • 24 September 2021: Practical workshop at the Data Protection Law Summer Course on European Data Protection Law, ERA.
  • 1 July 2021: speaker at panel Congreso Internet, Derecho y Política.
  • 28 June 2021: lecture at KU Leuven Summer School on the Law, Ethics & Policy of Artificial Intelligence.
  • 21-25 June 2021: Summer Academy for Global Privacy Law 2021 (Programme Coordinator).
  • 15 June 2021: ACT Partnership Annual Meeting, Chair of panel ‘What does the future of AI Regulation look like? EU, USA and Canada perspectives’.
  • 4 June 2021: Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC) 2021, discussion of paper The Vulnerable Data Subject: A Gendered Data Subject?, co-authored with Gianclaudio Malgieri.
  • 20 May 2021: invited speaker at panel Data Governance: Data rights and platform resistance, Tilting2021
  • 8 April 2021: invited speaker at the 2021 Symposium: The Evolution of Technology & Gender-Related Offenses, hosted by the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law.
  • 23 March 2021, ‘Value Sensitive Use of Drones for Humanitarian and Development Purposes’.
  • 12 March 2021: guest lecture at Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics in Data Processing (FATE) course at UPF.
  • 11 March 2021, discussant at the 2nd meeting of the Expert Group ‘Digital Justice, Fundamental Rights and the Rule of law in the Age of Covid-19’, QMUL/CEPS.
  • 8 March2021: discussant at Anita L. Allen’s talk on ‘Privacy through the lenses of race and gender‘, Kaaitheater.
  • 26 February 2021: invited speaker at “The GDPR and International Organisations: Issues of EU Law and Public International Law” online event, co-organised by the Brussels Privacy Hub,  the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity, Maastricht Centre for European Law, and the Institute for European Law at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
  • 25 February 2021: invited speaker at «La implementación del RGPD en España», Congreso internacional, presentation on ‘Bélgica y la protección de datos en tiempos de pandemia’ (video available here).
  • 18 February 2021, 1st Repair Café for Digital Rights.
  • 29 January 2021: Organisation and charing of panel ‘Automated Gender Attribution: It’s a boy! It’s a girl!, said the algorithm’, at CPDP2021 (video available here).
  • 27 January 2021: speaker at panel ‘Closing the GDPR enforcement gap and looking at the enforcement model of the future’. Video available here.
  • 26 January 2021: Privacy Camp 2021 (Content Committee member, speaker).
  • 17 December 2020: Invited speaker at EDEN Conference. See the Aftermovie video here.
  • 11 December 2020: Presentation  on ‘Data as event’, together with Rocco Bellanova, at the Data Times: Immediacies, lifecycles, forgettings Final Conference, programme here.
  • 10 December 2020: Invited speaker at session on deconstructing the Data Protection Officer (DPO), Bureaucracksy, Constant.
  • 9 December 2020: Invited lecturer at ERA’s Privacy and Data Protection: Recent ECtHR & CJEU Case Law Online Conference; lecture on ‘Privacy and data protection law in Europe’.
  • 19 November 2020: Online Workshop: “European Courts and Digital Media”, presentation on ‘Perspectives on online gender-based violence: Which role for privacy?’.
  • 12 November 2020: Chair of ‘Specifying the GDPR: Member States perspectives” Series – Germany‘, Brussels Privacy Hub (PBH).
  • 30 September 2020: Discussant at the Final Meeting of the Task Force on Cross Border Data in Criminal Proceedings and the Future of Digital Justice, CEPS.
  • 10 September 2020: Invited speaker at ‘Covid-19 and International Law: Science, Tech, Trolls and the Role of Information’, ESIL and Stockholm Center for International Law and Justice (SCILJ) Joint Online Event.
  • 22-26 June 2020: Summer Academy for Global Privacy Law 2020. Coordination and lecture.
  • 4 February 2020: Lecture on research on data protection law at Privacy: systematiek en vraagstukken, UvA Academie voor Bank en Verzekeringen, UvA, Amsterdam.
  • 27 January 2020: “Gender: What the GDPR does not tell us (But maybe you can?)”, Invited Tutorial at ACM FAT* 2020, Barcelona. See video here.
  • 24 January 2020: Moderation of panel “Explicit Data Flows: Applying Global Privacy to Extra Sensitive Data”, Computers, Privacy & Data Protection (CPDP) Conference, Brussels. See video here.
  • 21 January 2020: ‘The impact of surveillance on today’s kids – tomorrow’s human rights activists’ panel, Privacy Camp. See video here.
  • 20 January 2020: Fairness, Computation and the GDPR, ALTEP-DP Kick Off event, IES, Brussels.
  • 9 December 2019: Lecture on “Privacy and data protection law in Europe” at Privacy and Data Protection: Recent ECtHR & CJEU Case Law seminar, ERA Academy of European Law, Trier.
  • 21 November 2019: Congress “The Fourth Industrial Revolution and its Impact on Ethics – Solving the Challenges of the Agenda 2030”, Madrid. Invited speaker for panel on Artificial Intelligence.
  • 20 November 2019: Feminist Data Protection Workshop, co-organisation, Berlin.
  • 12 November 2019: Specifying the GDPR: Member States perspectives” series – France, Brussels Privacy Hub (BPH), VUB, Chair.
  • 24 October 2019: PLSC-Europe 2019 (Amsterdam).
  • 3 October 2019: Anthropology + Technology Conference 2019. Keynote: ‘The Data Makers: Who are They, and How to Understand Them?’. Bristol.
  • 27 September 2019: JUD-IT Final Conference ‘Judicial cooperation and cross-border data gathering in the fight against crime’.
  • 16 September 2019: ‘Gender, Technology & Law: A kind of mapping‘, 1st session of the Gender, Technology & Law series, co-organised by LSTS and FRC, VUB.
  • 12 September 2019: Paper presentation at ‘DATA POWER: global in/securities’, Bremen.
  • 1-6 September 2019: The Fourth Interdisciplinary Summerschool on Privacy (ISP 2019) [more info]. Invited lecturer.
  • 08/07/2019: Presentation ‘Interfaces between Privacy and Data Protection: Identity in the Web’, ‘The Protection of Privacy in Interconnected Digital Environments’, Luxembourg Conference, MPI Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
  • 24-28/06/2019: 4th European Data Protection Law Summer School: Advancing (with) EU data protection [more info]. Brussels. Programme Coordination and lecture.
  • 19/06/2019: Conference Value-driven Cybersecurity: Which Security? Whose Values?, CANVAS Project, Brussels. Final remarks.
  • 15/05/2019: ‘What is an abuse of data subject rights? Fear, facts and fiction about the use of data protection rights in a post-GDPR world’, paper presentation with Laura Drechsler, at Tilting Perspectives 2019 – Regulating a World in Transition, Tilburg [abstract available].
  • 01/02/2019: Chair of panel ‘Online abuse of women: Who is fighting back?’, CPDP 2019, Brussels [video available].
  • 30/01/2019: Speaker at panel ‘Defending the GDPR‘, CPDP 2019, Brussels.
  • 17/12/2018: Discussant at ‘Algorithmic discrimination under EU law’ with Dr. Philipp Hacker, Meet the Author Series, Brussels Privacy Hub, VUB.
  • 13/12/2018: Lecture ‘Personal data processed for mobile and online payments: Priceless protection?’, “Money and Data: collecting, protecting and exchanging personal data” session, 2018 Winter School on Money as a Means of Community Belonging, Business and Law Department, University of Siena, Siena.
  • 28/11/2018: Keynote ‘‘Digital (and) humanitarian: Protecting people while protecting their data”, The Cyborg Days, University of Zurich, Zurich.
  • 21/11/2018: Presentation ‘Data protection as a triangle’, ‘Future of data protection law. Towards the law of everything?’ Expert Workshop, Tilburg University, Tilburg.
  • 29/06/2018: Invited speaker at “Data protection and ethical issues” panel at the EDPS Trainees Conference ‘GDPR and children: Who cares about Children’s data?’, European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), Brussels.
  • 28-31/05/2018: Invited participant to the Workshop ‘Data Sharing for Law Enforcement’, Lorentz Center, Leiden.
  • 24/05/2018: Invited speaker for talk ‘De l’importance (ou pas) du préjudice dans le droit européen des données personnelles’ at ‘Le Big Bang du RGDP’, organised by the AFCDP, Paris.
  • 17-18/05/2018: Invited speaker for presentation on ‘El Comité Europeo de Protección de Datos’ during roundtable Autoridades de control e implementación de la normativa en materia de protección de datos, ‘Estudio del impacto del Reglamento Europeo de Protección de Datos: análisis nacional y comparado’ event at Universitat Jaume I, Castellón.
  • 25/04/2018: Invited speaker to roundtable “L’évaluation du préjudice subi en matière de violation de données personnelles”, Atelier européen sur la protection des données persos – Trust & Privacy Night, Paris.
  • 18/04/2018: Chair of Law Enforcement Data Access Series ‘US CLOUD-Act: Signalling change in global data flows?’ event, Brussels Privacy Hub (BPH), Brussels.
  • 02/03/2018: Speaker at Understanding the operational, strategic and political implications of forensic DNA-results of the Be-Gen research project, session ‘Recommendations and political use’, Brussels.
  • 20/02/2018: Co-organiser and moderator of EDPS/BPH Lunchtime Event Putting a price on your invaluable private life? Personal data and the values behind, EDPS, Brussels [video available].
  • 23/02/2018: Discussion Leader in the Rights and Security Lab Session on EU-UK Security Cooperation after BREXIT, CEPS Ideas Lab, The Egg, Brussels.
  • 05/02/2018: Chair of “International Perspectives II” session at the PRINTEGER European Conference on Research Integrity: Why Research Integrity Matters to You, Bonn.
  • 24/01/2018: Moderator of panel Physical Tracking: Nowhere to hide? at the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) 2018 Conference.
  • 25/01/2018: Chair and co-organiser of panel Gendered Data Bodies at the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) 2018 Conference.
  • 15/01/2018: Invited speaker at the roundtable The European Investigation Order (EIO): Challenges to Fundamental Rights and Sovereignty in the Digital Age.
  • 8/12/2017: Journée d’étude Vie privée, données personnelles et risques : Quels paramètres pour leur cohabitation à venir ?, Paris.
  • 18/12/2017: Discussant at Meet the Author: Lunchtime debate on “The the relationship between EU consumer law and data protection”, Brussels Privacy Hub (BPH), Brussels.
  • 1/12/2017: ‘Gendering (health) data protection? On privacy and women’s (non-)health data‘, talk at Big Health data and Social Media: Legal and Ethical Challenges, Keele University.
  • 18/10/2017: Presentation on legal issues related to research integrity at the Joint Research Integrity Policy Meeting and Policy Advisory Board Meeting organised by the PRINTEGER project, Brussels.
  • 12/10/2017: Invited speaker at Jurisdiction, Conflicts of Laws and Data Protection in Cyberspace Conference, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
  • 29/09/2017: Who is listening to the data subject? Music streaming and privacy, presentation at CopyCamp 2017: The Internet of Copyrighted Things, Warsaw.
  • 15/09/2017: Invited speaker at the Data Protection panel of the European Compliance Conference, organised by The European Law Students Association (ELSA), Brussels.
  • 25/09/2017: Invited speaker at the Academic Conference The Surveillance Triangle: Authorities, Data subjects and Means (Panel The perspective of Individuals subject to surveillance), Brussels.
  • 13/09/2017: Invited speaker at the Conference Nearly there!? – Challenges and Chances of the GDPR with 8 months to go until applicability, organised by University of Luxembourg and FIZ Karlsruhe, Leibniz-Institute for Information Infrastructure, Luxembourg.
  • 05/09/2017: Invited lecturer for the ‘Monthly Meeting’ at the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) for the lecture ‘(Personal) data ownership: A fundamental rights’ perspective‘, Brussels.
  • 06-08/07/2017: Invited expert at the International Workshop on Data Ownership, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, organised by Universtität Zürich. See the workshop’s summary here.
  • 27/06/2017: Lecture on ‘Recent ECtHR and CJEU jurisprudence on privacy and data protection‘, 2nd Data Protection Law Summer School: The GDPR is Now, VUB, Brussels.
  • 23/06/2017: Moderator of session ‘Implications for data protection and privacy education‘, Roundtable on the GDPR and children’s rights, Brussels. See the Report on the Roundtable here.
  • 30/05/2017: Moderator of panel on privacy and freedom of expression at the Conversatorio ‘Derechos Digitales de los Ciudadanos’, Madrid.
  • 18/05/2017: Discussant of paper ‘Should fundamental rights to privacy and data protection be a part of EU’s international trade deals?’, by Svetlana Yakovleva  PLSC Europe, Tilburg.
  • 17/05/2017: Speaker at panel ‘Privacy in the 2020s (a conversation about the future of privacy)’, Conference TILTing Perspectives 2017: ‘Regulating a connected world’, Tilburg.
  • 12/05/2017: ‘Portability under the GDPR: Key requirements and open questions’, Families on the Move Conference, Brussels.
  • 08/05/2017: ‘Music is Surveillance’, presentation together with Rosamunde Van Brakel at Re:publica 2017, Berlin.
  • 05/05/2017: Lecture on ‘Data Ownership: A data protection perspective’, Brussels Privacy Hub (BPH), Brussels.
  • 06/04/2017: Speaker at panel ‘Beyond Internet access: Developing Countries and citizens’ data protection’, Brussels School of International Studies (BSIS) Conference The Disappearing State? Contested Governance in the 21st Century, University of Kent, Brussels.
  • 27/01/2017: Speaker at panel ‘Types of Privacy’, Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) 2017 Conference, Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels.
  • 26/01/2017: Moderator at panel ‘The Ethical Challenges of Cybersecurity’, Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) 2017 Conference, Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels.
  • 09/12/2016: Chair of GDPR Workshop Series: Scientific Research and Data Protection event, organised by Brussels Privacy Hub (BPH) at the Institute for European Studies (IES), VUB, Brussels.
  • 19/11/2016: Invited speaker for “Workshop 2: Nieuw mediagebruik en de Verordening/ Les nouveaux médias et le Règlement” at De Verordening Gegevensbescherming verder ontleed / Le Règlement Général Protection des Données plus en détail, Conference organised by Centre for IT and IP Law (CiTiP) in collaboration with CBPL, Crids & LSTS, KU Leuven, Leuven.
  • 09/11/2016: Invited speaker at the Workshop: Security, Surveillance and proportionality (CAST Research Seminar): lecture ‘Does ‘technology made me do it’ prove genuine necessity? Tackling the inevitability of modern surveillance in European law’, Centre for Advanced Security Theory (CAST), University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen.
  • 21/10/2016: Invited speaker at Joint Research Centre (JRC): lecture on data ownership for the Cyber & Digital Citizens’ Security Unit, JRC, Ispra.
  • 19/06/2016: Chair of GDPR Workshop Series ‘Freedom of Expression and Data protection in the GDPR’ event, organised by Brussels Privacy Hub (BPH) at the Institute for European Studies (IES), VUB, Brussels.
  • 05/09/2016: ‘Towards an Europeanisation of the Regulation of Research Integrity?’, paper presented at the UACES 46th Annual Conference, London.
  • 06/07/2016: ‘Who is Misbehaving? On Why (Big) Data Don’t Need Ethics’, paper presented at the Sixth Biennial Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance (RegGov2016), Tilburg.
  • 24/06/2016: Co-organisation of the stream ‘Data as Things: Dis/assembling the Stuff of Data and Data’s Coming to Matter’, together with Claudia Aradau and Rocco Bellanova, London Conference in Critical Thought (LCCT2016), Birbeck University, London.
  • 29/04/2016: Invited speaker at ‘Le Règlement général sur la protection des données à caractère personnel en 5 questions’ Conference, CRIDS, Université de Namur, Namur.
  • 23/04/2016: ‘Can you hear it too? Looking into surveillance through sound and music’ paper presented at the 7th Biannual Surveillance and Society Conference (SSN2016), Barcelona.
  • 28/01/2016: Co-organisation and chairing of panel ‘Loving the no hate web? Another look into women’s digital rights’ at the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) 2016 Conference, Brussels. Video available here.
  • 11/12/2015: Invited speaker at the Conference Access to Electronic Data for Law Enforcement Purposes Mutual Legal Assistance and Cybercrime Challenges in EU-USA Cooperation, Queen Mary University, London.
  • 26/10/2015: Discussant at the Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC), Amsterdam.
  • 08/10/2015: Invited speaker at “Panel I: Ethical approach to data processing”, Annual Privacy Forum (APC) 2015. Luxembourg.
  • 18/06/2015: Presentation of paper “Illusions of symmetry? EU privacy rights v US privacy rights for EU citizens” at the Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society Conference, Cardiff.
  • 01/06/2015: Invited speaker at Standard of personal data protection in the Area of Police and Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters in the European Union Conference, Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw.
  • 24/01/2015: Speaker at CPDP 2015 panel ‘Judicial activism in data protection law’. Video available here.
  • 22/01/2015: Co-organisation and chairing of panel ‘Feminist perspectives on privacy and personal data protection’ at the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) 2015 Conference, Brussels. Video available here.
  • 10/10/2014: Invited speaker at “Session II: Technology”, Internet Governance. Actors, Technology, Content Academic Symposium, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin.
  • 04/07/2014: ‘How uninformed is the average data subject? A quest for benchmarks in EU personal data protection’ paper presented at 10th International Conference on Internet, Law & Politics (IDP 2014) ‘A decade of transformations’, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona.
  • 05/06/2014: Invited speaker at ‘The CJEU’s latest decision on the right to control your own data” ERA Briefing, Academy of European Law (ERA).
  • 02/06/2014: organisation of the Policy Forum on Sustainable Food, 3rd event of the ‘EU Food Law: What’s On the Menu?’ Policy Fora, organised by the VUB Food Think Tank at the Institute for European Studies (IES), VUB, Brussels.
  • 23-24/05/2014: presentation of paper co-authored with Serge Gutwirth on ‘Ethics, Law and Privacy Disentangling Law from Ethics in Privacy Discourse’, 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science, and Technology, ETHICS 2014, Chicago (US).
  • 12/05/2014: organisation of Policy Forum on Organic Farming, 2nd event of the ‘EU Food Law: What’s On the Menu?’ Policy Fora, organised by the VUB Food Think Tank at the Institute for European Studies (IES), VUB, Brussels.
  • 25/04/2014: presentation of a paper co-authored with Rocco Bellanova and Raphaël Gellert on ‘Between In/Visibility and Disappearance: Interrogating Surveillance’s Ob-scene Politics’ at The Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) 2014 Conference: ‘Surveillance Ambiguities & Asymmetries’, hosted by the University of Barcelona and supported by the Surveillance Studies Network, Barcelona.
  • 27/03/2014: presentation of paper co-authored with Rocco Bellanova and Raphaël Gellert on ‘Between In/Visibility and Disappearance: Interrogating Surveillance’s Ob-scene Politics’. 55th International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention ‘Spaces and Places: Geopolitics in an Era of Globalization”, Toronto (Canada).
  • 23/01/2014: Chair of panel ‘Demonstrating Accountability – Trust but Self-Verify?’ at the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) International Conference 2014 ‘Data Protection: The Global Perspective’, Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels.
  • 12/11/2013: Invited speaker at the Jornada Internacional de Protección de Datos of the Universitat Jaume I de Castellón, Castellón (Spain), 12 November 2013.
  • 20/09/2013: Presentation co-authored with Raphaël Gellert on ‘Smartphones, Privacy and Control: A Smart Approach?’ at the ‘Intelligent Investigation – Challenges & Chances’ SMART (Scalable Measures for Automated Recognition Technologies) Policy Workshop, Brussels.
  • 03/09/2013: discussant at the ‘Smart Borders? European and Global Logics of Border Surveillance in the Context of Privacy’, SAPIENT (Surveillance, Privacy and Ethics) event, CEPS, Brussels.
  • 06/04/2013: presentation of paper ‘Justify processing, deactivate protection: Financial data and the double bind of European security’  at the 2013 International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention ‘The Politics of International Diffusion: Regional and Global Dimensions’, San Francisco (US).
  • 28/11/2012: presentation of paper ‘The core content of personal data protection: A conceptual controversy’, co-authored by Serge Gutwirth, at the Privacy and Emerging Technologies PRESCIENT International Conference, Fraunhofer Forum, Berlin.
  • 12/6/2009: paper presentation at European Data Wars: Fighting Terrorism Through Data Conference, organised by University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam.
  • 13/12/2008: Invited speaker at the Human Rights in European and Global Perspective: Taking stock of human rights research and moving towards a new research agenda event, CEPS, Brussels.
  • 18-20/06/2008: paper presentation at the Ethics, Technology and Identity Conference, organised by 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology, Delft.
  • 29/04/2008: Invited speaker at the PRISE Final Conference: Towards privacy enhancing security technologies – the next steps, organised by the Institute of Technology Assessment of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.
  • 13/04/2007: paper presentation at ‘The EU’s Third Pillar: what Future for Police and Judicial Cooperation in an AFSJ? CHALLENGE Training school’, organised by the CHALLENGE project, CEPS, Brussels.