Publications

Numerous science, technology and engineering developments are perceived as raising privacy concerns. As such, privacy repeatedly finds itself addressed through the mixed lens of an 'ethical-legal' (if not 'ethical-legal-social') perspective. The aim of this contribution is to dispute the validity of this indistinctive approach, to stress its shortcomings, and to investigate the paths that help to disentwine ethics and law in accordance with ...

Anthologie privacy is een smaakmaker, een lokvogel, een tipje van de sluier die de auteurs proberen op te lichten van de nieuwe website www.anthologieprivacy.be. Het idee om een anthologie van het Belgische privacyrecht ter beschikking te stellen is gegroeid in de aanloop naar het voorstel voor een nieuw Europees gegevensbeschermingsrecht. Na het voorstel van de Europese Commissie van 25 januari 2012 is het nog duidelijker geworden dat kennis en ...

The first part of this paper will highlight the history of international governance of data privacy. It will also briefly describe the current state of governance to demonstrate that international norms followed data privacy legislation from the inception.
The second part will elaborate upon the complexities of the contemporary processing environment by referring to two case studies, cloud computing and location-based services. These two ...

The controversial PRISM programme has uncovered a global reality of trans-border law enforcement access to private sector data, triggered by cloud computing. Law enforcement agencies are indeed increasingly targeting foreign cloud computing service providers. This reality poses challenges to both state interests and individual rights, as it does not only disturb the relations between sovereign states, but also causes legal uncertainty for the ...

On 26 November 1740 the Danish royal family took up residence in the new Christiansborg Palace, located at the center of Copenhagen. As was the case for many other European court residences, construction, especially on the interiors, continued well after the inauguration of the palace. In this paper we look at examples of different notions of privacy and how the spatial organization of the first Christiansborg Palace contributed to the living ...

© 2015 ACM. Understanding users' sentiments in social media is important in many domains, such as marketing and online applications. Is one demographic group inherently different from another? Does a group express the same sentiment both in private and public? How can we compare the sentiments of different groups composed of multiple attributes? In this paper, we take an interdisciplinary approach towards mining the patterns of textual ...

Efficiency and privacy protection are essential when setting up nationwide research networks. This paper investigates the extent to which basic services developed to support the provision of care can be re-used, whilst preserving an acceptable privacy protection level, within a large Belgian primary care research network. The generic sustainable confidentiality management model used to assess the privacy protection level of the selected network ...