Projects
Privacy Rating for Online Games: Feasibility of a Rights-based Risk Evaluation System (PROGRRES) KU Leuven
Online video games are sophisticated personal data collection
machines. Children, who play them most, are unaware of the risks to
their right to privacy connected to gaming, and so are their parents.
Unawareness of privacy risks impede parents to exert their protective
function towards children.
PROGRRES aims at the creation of a risk rating system that ranks
online video games on the basis of the privacy ...
Communication privacy for social networks. KU Leuven
Safeguarding privacy in a world of algorithmic angels and artificial monsters: What role for EU regulation? KU Leuven
In this thesis, I explore two current global developments. The first concerns the increased use of algorithmic systems by public authorities in a way that raises significant ethical and legal challenges. The second concerns the erosion of the rule of law and the rise of authoritarian and illiberal tendencies in liberal democracies, including in Europe. While each of these developments is worrying as such, I argue that the combination of their ...
Boundary coordination and mobile youth culture: An interpretative inquiry into the privacy management of teens in location-based social networks Ghent University
In 1890 Warren and Brandeis proclaimed the end of privacy because photography and the
newspaper enterprise invaded the private and domestic life: “hat is whispered in the closet shall
be proclaimed from the housetops”(p.195). More than a century later, with the emergence of social
network services, context aware technologies and new technological developments such as the
Internet of Things, the ...
Privacy preserving core sets KU Leuven
Empirical risk minimization lies at the core of modern machine learning methodologies. In this framework, a loss function is
minimized in expectation, where the expectation is taken with respect to data representative of that in the real world. In diverse
applications, it is helpful to obtain a summary of a set of data that preserves important aspects of the distribution, while
removing private data that allows an adversary to ...
Contextual privacy and the proliferation of location data. KU Leuven
Contextual privacy and the proliferation of location data Vrije Universiteit Brussel
There ...
A Bridge too Far? Privacy by Design in the Age of Cybersecurity. KU Leuven
Regulation by design, i.e. the embedding of certain standards into design in order to foster social outcomes, has been gaining traction in policy circles. This is especially true in the context of privacy, where computer scientists are expected to propose designs that are aligned with regulatory objectives. The objective of this interdisciplinary project is to critically assess the role computer scientists can play in privacy by design in the ...
Towards cost-optimal energy communities: realizing privacy aware and data-driven energy efficiency, flexibility and climate resilience KU Leuven
Energy communities are a key enabling technology to prevent climate change by facilitating new energy market designs and promoting renewable energy sources (RES). This pivot towards energy communities follows directly from the grid issues created by increasing electrification of demand and proliferation of RES. Pilots have shown that it is possible to address these issues by leveraging the flexibility in energy communities, e.g. in thermal ...