Publicaties
Serge Gutwirth: Making excellent science differently Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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 ...
Comparing definitions of data and information in data protection law and machine learning: A useful way forward to meaningfully regulate algorithms? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The notion of information is central to data protection law, and to algorithms/machine learning. This centrality gives the impressions that algorithms are just yet another data processing operation to be regulated. A more careful analysis reveals a number of issues. The notion of personal data is notoriously under-defined, and attempts at clarification from an information theory perspective are also equivocal. The paper therefore attempts a ...
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 ...