Publications
Constitutional Ecology of Practices. Bringing Law, Robots and Epigrams into Latourian Cosmopolitics Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Privacy engineering and the techno-regulatory imaginary Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), in force since 2018, has introduced design-based approaches to data protection and the governance of privacy. In this article we describe the emergence of the professional field of privacy engineering to enact this shift in digital governance. We argue that privacy engineering forms part of a broader techno-regulatory imaginary through which (fundamental) rights protections ...
The ‘Ethification’ of ICT Governance. Artificial Intelligence and Data Protection in the European Union Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Several European Commission's initiatives have been resorting to ethics in policy discourses as a way to govern and regulate Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The proliferation of invocations of ‘ethics’, especially concerning the recent debate on (the regulation of) Artificial Intelligence (AI), can be referred to as the ‘ethification’ phenomenon. This article aims to elucidate the benefits and drawbacks of the ethification ...
The concept of impact assessment Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This Chapter is structured as follows. After the present introduction, it outlines the concept of ...
Make way for the robots! Human- and machine-centricity in constituting a European Public-Private Partnership Vrije Universiteit Brussel
A risk to a right? Beyond data protection risk assessments Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Judging New Plant Modification Techniques: law, science, innovation and cosmopolitics Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Staat van de Rede. Kant en het constitutionele denken Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Tracing networked infrastructures for post-truth. Public dissections of and by techno-political Leviathans Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Contestations of truth standards have coincided with a decline of authority of established societal institutions such as science, government, courts, and the media. This triggered a self-reflective debate by science and technology studies scholars on whether their detailed descriptions of the networks of the techno-sciences, (de-)constructing facts and truths, contributed to this post-truth situation. This chapter explores a neglected ...