mastodon 4.7.3Law Prof at iHub, interdisciplinary research hub on digitalization and society & Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud university, NL
Mastodon handle: @Frederik_Borgesius@akademienl.social
University web page:
https://www.ru.nl/en/people/zuiderveen-borgesius-f
‘Instagram has been running paid adverts promoting child sexual abuse material in India, a BBC Eye investigation has found. (…)
Ads on Instagram are only published after first being approved by its moderation technology.
When the BBC reported one of the ads to Instagram, the social media platform responded 24 hours later saying the post did not violate its "community guidelines".’
This should be interesting.
I was selected for the AI Act Advisory Forum of the EU.
The tasks of the AI Act Advisory Forum include:
Advising the AI Board and the Commission on implementing measures etc
Assist the Commission in relation to the implementation of EU legislation
Here is a bit more info. https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=4009
New book by my awesome colleagues Rowin Jansen & @bjacobs@social.edu.nl
‘Democratie onder druk. Over de geheime diensten in turbulente tijden’
[‘Democracy under pressure. About secret services in turbulent times’.]
Can’t wait to start!
Can’t wait!
Later today I give a talk at the IViR Institute for Information Law (Amsterdam):
‘AI and Poverty. Should socio-economic status be a protected ground in non-discrimination law?’
Based on research that Philipp Hacker and I are doing for a paper.
https://www.ivir.nl/events/ivir-lecture-series-29may2026/
There will be a stream too.
‘The Dutch government has blocked the sale of Solvinity, the company that manages its online services portal DigiD, to the US-based tech giant Kyndryl amid concerns that millions of citizens’ private data could be compromised.’
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/05/dutch-government-blocks-sale-of-digid-owner-to-us-tech-giant/
Save the date:
Conference
The Dutch Data Protection Authority Meets Academia
24 September 2026, The Hague, The Netherlands
Organised by the Dutch Data Protection Authority and me.
There will sessions focused on law and on technology.
This is a good opportunity to meet people at the Dutch DPA, policymakers, and other regulators.
We will post information about registration and about the program soon.
The Netherlands:
The use of parking enforcement cameras to monitor parked cars results in an estimated 500,000 wrongful fines. This is according to a new study by the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA).
More information and the study (in Dutch):
https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/actueel/honderdduizenden-onterechte-boetes-door-scanautos
‘Royal Dutch Military Police worked with controversial tech giant Palantir: minister concealed contract from the House of Representatives’
https://eliasrutten.substack.com/p/royal-dutch-military-police-worked
By Elias Rutten.
Includes some quotes from me.
#tech #ai #netherlands #politics #law #surveillance #privacy
This Tuesday, prof Itsuko Yamaguchi gives a presentation at @iHub@social.edu.nl Radboud University, The Netherlands
'How to find effective remedies for global legal and ethical problems relating to Al and digital platforms: toward a legal paradigm shift'
Congratulations Dr (!) Ana-Maria Hriscu!
A great thesis! And very good answers to the challenging questions during the defence.
(I was one of the PhD committee members asking difficult questions.)
And great news for us at @iHub@social.edu.nl that you became our colleague!
Tomorrow: PhD defence of Yong Yong Hu, ex colleague at @iHub@social.edu.nl
‘The use of (attribute-based) authentication and signing in the light of eIDAS 2.0 and the protection of personal data’
https://www.ru.nl/en/about-us/events/authentication-electronic-signatures-and-data-protection
‘Misschien moet je iets lager mikken. Een verhaal over armoede en kansenongelijkheid’
Door Milio van de Kamp.
Prachtig boek!
Ik heb nu nog meer respect voor eerste-generatie-studenten.
Als je in het onderwijs werkt, raad ik dit boek erg aan. Ik raad het boek trouwens ook aan aan als je een ander soort baan hebt.
https://www.atlascontact.nl/boek/misschien-moet-je-iets-lager-mikken/
The Netherlands.
‘Cybercriminals who hacked into telecom provider Odido have published all remaining customer data...
The dataset contains the data of more than 6.5 million individuals.’
The Netherlands has roughly 18 million inhabitants.
#privacy #security #cybersecurity #tech #databreach #odido #netherlands
‘Researchers discover pair of giant 'super-puff' planets lighter than candy floss’
‘An international collaboration led by the University of Oxford has discovered two of the lowest-density giant planets ever detected: rare “super-puff” planets with densities lower than candy floss.’
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-06-24-researchers-discover-pair-of-giant-super-puff-planets-lighter-than-candy-floss #science
Looking forward to the inaugural lecture of Marloes van Noorloos today:
'Criminal law and social inequality'
The criminal justice system sometimes exacerbates social inequality.
People at the bottom of society are hit harder by the criminal justice system in all sorts of ways, says Professor Marloes van Noorloos. She adds that this has to change.
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2026/04/als-het-strafrecht-oneerlijk-uitpakt
Call For Papers: Special Issue on One Decade of GDPR – Contributions to Data Protection and Future Challenges
https://www.computer.org/digital-library/magazines/sp/cfp-one-decade-gdpr-challenges
‘The greatest danger of a data breach such as the one currently affecting Odido is that you could become a victim of phishing,’ says Zuiderveen Borgesius.
And a few more quotes from me. In Dutch.
‘Has all the stolen Chipsoft data been destroyed, as the company claims?’
“You can’t say that for certain, because you never know,” says Zuiderveen Borgesius. “But it is possible that, once paid, the ransomware gang will not do anything with the data because they want to be seen as ‘reliable’. If you aren’t, your victims will be less likely to pay a ransom following a hack in future.”
#chipsoft #privacy #avg #gdpr #tech #law #security #cybersecurity
‘Zijn alle gestolen Chipsoft-data vernietigd, zoals het bedrijf beweert?’
„Dat kun je niet beweren, want je weet het nooit”, zegt Zuiderveen Borgesius. „Maar het is wel mogelijk dat de hackers, eenmaal betaald, niks meer met de gegevens doen omdat ze ‘betrouwbaar’ gevonden willen worden. Als je dat niet bent, zullen je slachtoffers voortaan minder snel losgeld betalen na een hack.”
#chipsoft #privacy #avg #gdpr #tech #law #security #cybersecurity
Can’t wait!
On 28 April, Orla Lynskey (UCL) and Jeremias Adams-Prass (Oxford) give a presentation at the iHub, @iHub@social.edu.nl
'One Competence to Rule them All? Article 16 TFEU and the Regulation of Digital Society’
Free entrance. Erasmus building, @Radboud_uni@mastodon.social Nijmegen.
"Het grootste gevaar van een datalek zoals nu met Odido is eigenlijk dat je slachtoffer kunt worden van 'phishing'", zegt Zuiderveen Borgesius.
En nog wat citaten van mij.
‘A French academic is under investigation for inventing a Nobel-style prize for philology in order that he could then go on to win it…
the prize was a fiction, as was the body that supposedly awarded it, the International Society of Philology - both apparently dreamed up by Montaclair to burnish his academic credentials.’
Today: Inaugural lecture by my friend Prof. Balázs Bodó, at the University of Amsterdam.
‘The governance of technology, the government of the self and of others’
Fun to see my ex colleagues at IViR again.
There’s a stream too.
Arriving in Enschede for the STS NL conference
11 May, PhD defence Marvin van Bekkum
Where Law meets Artificial Intelligence: Discrimination and Unfair Differentiation in Insurance
‘The Guardian has announced it will no longer post content on Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, from its official accounts… the news organisation said it considered the benefits of being on the platform formerly called Twitter were now outweighed by the negatives, citing the “often disturbing content” found on it.’ https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/the-guardian-no-longer-post-on-x-twitter-elon-musk #journalism #politics #socialmedia #media
‘Will AI transform law? The hype is not supported by current evidence’, write @randomwalker@mastodon.social & @sayashk@mastodon.social https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/will-ai-transform-law They also published a scholarly paper on the topic with Peter Henderson: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~sayashk/papers/crcl-kapoor-henderson-narayanan.pdf #law #ai #tech #chatgpt
Using sensitive data to prevent AI-driven discrimination: Does the EU GDPR need a new exception?
Blog post by Marvin van Bekkum & me about our new paper.
https://iapp.org/news/a/using-sensitive-data-to-prevent-ai-discrimination-does-the-eu-gdpr-need-a-new-exception/
#AI #FAccT #bias #discrimination #tech #gdpr #privacy #data #dataprotection #datascience #machinelearning #aiact
‘There has been a huge increase in external research funding in the Dutch research landscape in recent decades… Research is about more than answering only the most pressing questions, but the current funding model in fact channels more and more funding to such questions. This is detrimental to broader long-term research and, ultimately, to the structure of Dutch science.’
Report by the Young Academy, set up by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. https://www.dejongeakademie.nl/en/news/2495663.aspx #academia
2 job opportunities at UN regarding technology & human rights https://inspira.un.org/psc/UNCAREERS/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/UN_CUSTOMIZATIONS.UN_JOB_DETAIL.GBL?Page=UN_JOB_DETAIL&Action=A&SiteId=1&JobOpeningId=200263&PostingSeq=1& https://inspira.un.org/psc/UNCAREERS/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/UN_CUSTOMIZATIONS.UN_JOB_DETAIL.GBL?Page=UN_JOB_DETAIL&Action=A&SiteId=1&JobOpeningId=200442&PostingSeq=1 #jobs #un #humanrights #tech
@spdrnl@sigmoid.social Beter laat dan nooit, laten we maar zeggen.
New interdisciplinary paper at FAccT, open access:
‘Co-designing for Compliance: Multi-party Computation Protocols for Post-Market Fairness Monitoring in Algorithmic Hiring’
By Changyang He, Nina Baranowska, Josu Andoni Eguíluz Castañeira, Guillem Escriba, Matthias Immanuel Jüntgen, Anna Via, Asia J. Biega & me
Thank you Tilt team at Tilburg University for the great conference!
https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/about/schools/law/departments/tilt/tilting-perspectives/2026
A Perfect Crime by A Yi. 2015.
A violent, fast-paced, and disturbing novel from China. A good read!
Yes! Auto reply on: holiday!
‘How do scholars define Big Tech?
New pre-print by Victo Silva, Raphaël Gellert, and me.
We examine 225 articles to understand how scholars use the term ‘Big Tech’. We find that ‘Big Tech’ remains conceptually unsettled. For instance, scholars label 134 different companies as Big Tech.
It’s a pre-print, so we can still change things. Suggestions are welcome!
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