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The Regulation of Digital Technologies in the EU Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Vagelis Papakonstantinou, Paul De Hert
EU regulatory initiatives on technology-related topics has spiked over the past few years. On the basis of its Priorities Programme 2019-2024, while creating “Europe fit for the Digital Age”, the EU Commission has been busy releasing new texts aimed at regulating a number of technology topics, including, among others, data uses, online platforms, cybersecurity, or artificial intelligence. This paper identifies three basic phenomena common to ...

Prefrailty Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Axelle Costenoble, Veerle Knoop, Aziz Debain, Sofie Vermeiren, Roberta Vella Azzopardi, Gina Rossi, Celeste Smeys, Kéren Duarte Baltazar, Ivan Bautmans, Dominique Verte, et al.

OBJECTIVES: To analyze prefrailty's relationship with limitations in activities of daily living (ADLs) and restrictions in social participation.

METHOD: Robust (Fried 0/4; n = 214; Mage = 82.3 years [SD ±2.1]) and prefrail (Fried 1-2/4; n = 191; Mage = 83.8 years [SD ±3.2]) community-dwelling older individuals were included. Frailty scores were obtained from weight loss, exhaustion, gait speed, and grip strength. A total disability ...

Het CST als vaccinatie-duwtje. Nudging in mensenrechtenperspectief Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Paul De Hert
Het Coronadebat en het gebruik van het Covid Safe Ticket (CST) heeft ons
nieuwe inzichten gegeven in het fenomeen van nudges, ‘overheidsduwtjes in de gewenste richting’.
Wat is het verschil tussen nudging en dwang en hoe verhoudt nudging zich met andere overheidsinterventies zoals drang, overreden, en advisering?
Hebben de rechtsstaat en mensenrechten iet s te zeg gen over deze technieken, of beperkt het recht enkel dwang ...

Introduction to the Special Issue Questioning Modern Surveillance Technologies: Ethical and Legal Challenges of Emerging Information and Communication Technologies Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Johann Cas, Paul De Hert, Maria Grazia Porcedda, Charles Raab
This Special Issue explores ethical and legal challenges of existing and emerging ICTs used in the context of security and surveillance from the vantage point of several disciplines and interpretive paradigms. The contributions discuss issues and gaps existing in current regulatory frameworks and planned policy measures designed to address the challenges associated with the promotion of digital technologies in society. They address the need to ...

Data Protection Impact Assessment: A Protection Tool for Migrants Using ICT Solutions Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Julia Zomignani Barboza, Paul De Hert
With the realization that migrants rely on connectivity for multiple purposes, including to access information and services, many private and public initiatives started working on developing ICT tools to assist migrants to integrate into their new society. At the same time different countries have enacted legislation that allows the confiscation of asylum seekers’ phones and examination of the data therein to confirm their narratives. To ...

Framing Big Data in the Council of Europe and the EU data protection law systems Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Paul De Hert, Vagelis Papakonstantinou

On 19 November 2019 the Council of Europe hosted an international conference, immediately preceding the annual plenary meeting of its Committee of Convention 108, on “Convention 108+ and the future data protection global standard”. One of the authors made a presentation on “Comparing the EU and Council of Europe approach to Big Data”, and it is its contents and findings that are further elaborated in this paper; Its aim is, in essence, to ...

Castaño avoids a clash between the ECtHR and the CJEU, but erodes Soering. Thinking human rights transnationally Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Sibel Top, Paul De Hert
This article examines the changing balance established by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) between human rights filters to extradition and the obligation to cooperate and how this shift of rationale brought the Court closer to the position of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in that respect. The article argues that the ECtHR initially adopted a position whereby it prioritised human rights concerns over extraditions, ...

Human rights : A secular religion with legal crowbars. From Europe with hesitations Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Serge Gutwirth, Paul De Hert
This contribution offers to steer a discussion on the constitutive stance of fundamental rights in Western legal systems. The story of the democratic constitutional state, a story of rule of law and human rights, is an already 250 year old utopia, which strangely persists despite long-standing patterns of slavery, war, torture, poverty, hunger, deportations, racism, and other unfavorable matters to human rights.
This paper aims at ...

Creating Legal Migration Channels Alone is Not Sufficient to Minimise the Risk of Labour Exploitation Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Amy Weatherburn, Paul De Hert
Ilke Adam Tundé Adefioye Serena D'Agostino Nick Schuermans & Florian Trauner (eds.), , Brussels, VUBPress, 1 (ePDF) ISBN 978 94 6117 116 0 (epub)Research into the labour exploitation of EU citizens in Belgium shows that reliance on legal migration channels alone is only part of the solution. More is needed, as illustrated by the following three examples

European Law Enforcement and US Data Companies: A Decade of Cooperation Free from Law Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Angela Aguinaldo, Paul De Hert
We start our contribution with a short section on the recent reforms to codify direct cooperation between law enforcement authorities and private actors (section II). After a discussion of the 2018 US CLOUD Act, we turn to the proposal of the European Union to facilitate cross-border access to electronic evidence, which was presented by the European Commission in April 2018 (e-evidence package) and the reform process at the Council of Europe to ...