In the context of the European Union’s Justice Programme STREAM project, Sergi Vazquez Maymir and Prof. Paul De Hert publish the first periodic country report for Belgium . The report examines some...
VUB's CDSL is pleased to announce a new H2020 project that was won in the recent (November 2021) calls: AUGMENTED CCAM. AUGMENTED CCAM aims to understand, harmonise and evaluate in an augmented...
A new article, Cybersecurity as praxis and as a state: The EU law path towards acknowledgement of a new right to cybersecurity? , has just been published by Vagelis Papakonstantinou in the Computer...
In an article published in Le Soir’s edition of 17 January 2022, CDSL’s Franck Dumortier discussed the legal issues related to the further use of security video footage on which a woman was visibly...
CDSL is excited to move to its new offices, in SilverSquare Delta - University , just a few meters from VUB's campus in Etterbeek! The move is effective from December 1st, therefore please update...
On 22 November 2021, Franck Dumortier is invited to intervene in the UB3 series. During his presentation Franck will analyze the security duty as imposed by article 32 of the GDPR in light of the...
Dimitra Markopoulou and Vagelis Papakonstantinou published a new paper in the Journal of Water Law (Volume 27, Issue 4) , on the " Digitalisation of water services and the water sector cyber threat...
Vagelis Papakonstantinou, the academic coordinator of CDSL, made a (video) presentation at the 2021 World Internet Conference , on "International Data Transfers under EU Law: Past, Present, and...
The " LAW-GAME - An Interactive, Collaborative Digital Gamification Approach to Effective Experiential Training and Prediction of Criminal Actions " EU H2020 project kick-off meeting took place on...
CDSL's Vagelis Papakonstantinou gave an interview to DataTech, a danish media site dedicated to AI and data science, on granting legal personality to AI . The text of the interview (in danish) can be...
CDSL's Franck Dumortier was interviewed by Le Soir on the protection of private life in Belgium. The relevant text can be found here: pdf file Le Soir 11 February 2021 (1.57 MB)
CDSL's Yanhong Yin and Vagelis Papakonstantinou published a blog post on IAPP's Privacy Tracker on " China's Draft Privacy Bill: A pragmatic, but yet-to-be improved approach? ". This blog post forms...
Today CDSL's Franck Dumortier as invited by the National Parliament's Advisory Committee on Scientific and Technological Questions to discuss about a very general topic: "Artificial intelligence (and...
VUB's CDSL is pleased to announce a new H2020 project that was won in the recent (August 2020) security-related calls: LAW-GAME. LAW-GAME's aim “is to train police officers’ on the procedure, through...
CDSL is pleased to announce that, together with Trilateral Research (who is the project leader), it has signed new contracts with the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Data...
European Law Blog , 25 November 2020 By Vagelis Papakonstantinou & Paul de Hert When is new law needed and when are patches of existing legal tools preferrable? In October 2020 the European...
CDSL's Franck Dumortier and Vagelis Papakonstantinou were mentioned in Digital Privacy News, " EU Proposals Could Restrict Targeted Ads " by Robert Bateman.
CDSL has been awarded, and will be participating soon as project partner, in a new H2020 research project: MES-CoBraD . The Multidisciplinary Expert System for the Assessment & Management of...
European Law Blog , 28 September 2020 By Franck Dumortier, Vagelis Papakonstantinou & Paul de Hert On July 30 th 2020, within the framework of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), the...
Today CDSL's Franck Dumortier appeared on TV (LV24) on the topic of corona-tracing in Belgium.
New article published by CDSL's Franck Dumortier in the Privacy In Germany (PinG) journal, on " Once upon a crisis in Beligum: Manual and digital contact tracing of the coronavirus ". Abstract In...
In the midst of a pandemic, METICOS kick-off meeting took place in an online environment . All partners gathered in GoToMeeting the second week of September to agree on the actions to get the project...
Kick-off of the Search & Rescue Project Emerging technologies for the Early location of Entrapped victims under Collapsed Structures and Advanced Wearables for risk assessment and First...
It is with great pleasure that two new colleagues have joined CDSL: Frank Dumortier and Pantelis Velanas. Franck will be a Researcher at CDSL; In the past, he has been a Senior Researcher at CRIDS (...
SIENNA stands for ‘Stakeholder informed ethics for new technologies with high socio-economic and human rights impact’. SIENNA develops ethical frameworks, recommendations for better regulation and...
CDSL has been awarded, and will be participating soon as project partner, in two new H2020 research projects: METICOS – A Platform for Monitoring and Prediction of Social Impact and Acceptability of...
Dimitra Markopoulou, Vagelis Papakonstantinou and Paul de Hert published their latest article on “ The new EU cybersecurity framework: The NIS Directive, ENISA’s role and the General Data Protection...
Mapping EU cybersecurity law and its future challenges by Lina Jasmontait ė -Zaniewicz , LSTS, VUB On 11 October 2019 the Cyber and Data Security Lab (CDSL) and the Brussels Privacy Hub (BPH) hosted...
The CDSL YouTube channel has been launched! Material from all CDSL public events will be included in it - of course, only after acquiring each speaker's consent! We consider this an important new...
The new CDSL website was launched on July 1, 2019. The website includes information on CDSL's mission and scope , its most valuable assets - its people - as well as other useful material on...
CDSL will be hosting a panel in this year's CPDP . In line with CPDP's title ("Data Protection and Privacy in Transitional Times") our own panel will discuss whether "law can be determinate in an...
This is the fifth webinar in the new Enforcing Europe - Webinar Series 1 . The Webinar Series is co-organised with the University of Luxembourg within the framework of the joint research project...
CDSL will host a half-day workshop on Friday, 27 March 2020, on “Artificial Intelligence in EU Law Enforcement”. Its aim is to explore current practices against the regulatory background currently in...
CDSL is pleased to be hosting a panel in the forthcoming CPDP2020 conference, this year focusing on Artificial Intelligence. The panel will focus on whether AI should be granted with legal...
CDSL and the Brussels Privacy Hub will host a workshop during the European CyberSecurityMonth 2019 on EU Cybersecurity Law. Taking account of recent achievements and milestones, as well as lessons...
