Author Archives: Ronald Leenes

Nothing to hide

Quote

Posted on by

Bea Edwards for Huffington Post:

‘When we say, “I’m not a terrorist, so why should I care what the NSA does,” we’re forgetting a crucial fact: we don’t decide any longer whether we’re terrorists. Nor do we decide whether we’re going to be terrorists. Someone else does. We don’t know who those people are, or why they think that. We’ve never spoken to them, met them or seen them, nor have they spoken to us.’

So true.

Recent invited keynotes/lectures

Status

19 April 2023, wow, this list is not quite up to date. Will update soon

  • Piraten en pioniers, laveren tussen zekerheid en beklemming, keynote: statasrechtconferentie 2016, Enschede, UTwente, 16 december 2016.
  • Asset congres, Tilburg University, mei 2016.
  • Psychologie congres, Tilburg University, 28 Sept 2016.
  • technoregulation, RegGov conference, Tilburg University, July 2016
  • Cookiewars, RegGov conference, Tilburg University, July 2016
  • Accountability and transparency in Machine Learning, Machine Learning workshop: Machine Learning: Formulating an Innovation Policy for the 4th Industrial Revolution, Liverpool, 11 July 2016.
  • Embrace Ethics and Law, Data Science Summit 2015, Eindhoven, november 2015.
  • Bologna (Italy), Robots and big data: worlds apart?, Seminari LAST-JD, 30 October 2014.
  • Tilburg University, Recht op privacy, lecture for “Perspectieven op recht”, BA-1 course, 29 October 2014
  • Wageningen (Netherlands), The blessings and curses of the data deluge: perspectives of a data worrior, lecture for the series: IT Dilemmas – Openness vs Protection, Wageningen UR, Studium Generale, 28 October 2014
  • Tilburg University, Green and Gold: what’s in a name?, lecture for Open Access event TiU, 28 October 2014
  • Tilburg, Over de precaire balans van openbaarheid en privacy inzake slachtoffers, lecture in the series “MH17: Een vlucht naar voren?”, 30 September 2014
  • Wadern (Germany), participated in Dagstuhl seminar 14052 on ‘Ethics in Data Sharing’, 26. – 31. Januar 2014.
  • Brussels, CPDP2014, hosted panels on the ‘Right to be Forgotten’ and ‘Accountability in future internet services’, 24 January 2014.
  • Boston, The EU Robolaw project: preserving European values in emerging technologies, IBA Annual Conference, I Robot workshop, 10 October 2013.
  • Brussels (Belgium), Personal Data and Citizenship – Matching Law and Technology, Digital Enlightenment Forum 2013, 18 Sept 2013.
  • The Hague, Big Data for statistics – a view from the lifeguard’s chair, DGINS (Directors General of the National Statistical Institutes), 26 September 2013.
  • Tallinn (Estonia), Too close to my skin, tracking and facial recognition in social media, 10 Jan 2013.
  • Chicago, ‘Who Needs Facebook or Google+ Anyway – Privacy and Sociality in Social Network Sites’, Seventh ACM Workshop on Digital Identity Management (DIM 2011), 21 October 2011. http://www.nttmcl.com/dim2011/
  • Ghent, ‘Who needs Facebook anyway: privacy & sociality in Social Network Sites’ at the 12th Joint IFIP TC6 and TC11 Conference on Communications and Multimedia Security – CMS 2011 in Ghent, Belgium (http://www.cms2011.net/program.shtml), 19 October 2011.
  • Nijmegen, ‘Who needs Facebook anyway – privacy & sociality in Social Network Sites’, invited keynote at the WISSEC 2010 conference, 29 November 2010.
  • Barcelona, ‘Privacy in the Cloud, a Misty Topic?’, 6th Internet, Law and Politics Conference,  Open University of Catalonia, School of Law and Political Science, and held in Barcelona, Spain, on July 7th and 8th, 2010
  • Crete, 17 September 2009, Where the rubber meets the road: Privacy and Sociability in Social Network Sites, NIS’09 Forth/ENISA Summerschool on Network & Information security, Crete, Greece.
  • Nice, 9 September 2009, Where the rubber meets the road: Privacy and Sociability in Social Network Sites, Fifth International Summer School organised jointly by the PrimeLife EU project in cooperation with the IFIP WG 9.2, 9.6/11.7 11.4, 11.6. Privacy and Identity Management for Life, Nice, France.
  • Delft, 24 Oct 2008, Understanding privacy & identity in social networks, keynote at Privacy in Social Network Sites conference.

Bulk collection

Quote

Posted on by

Ellen Nakashima for the Washington Post:

“An analysis of 225 terrorism cases inside the United States since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has concluded that the bulk collection of phone records by the National Security Agency “has had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism.”

In the majority of cases, traditional law enforcement and investigative methods provided the tip or evidence to initiate the case, according to the study by the New America Foundation, a Washington-based nonprofit group.

No idea how credible this Foundation is though.

Big Data

Quote

Posted on by

Tom Fisburne:

there is a funny saying circulating with marketers right now on the current state of Big Data:

“Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it.”

Insurance policy

Quote

Posted on by

Outgoing deputy director John C Inglis of the NSA in an interview on NPR (reported on in the Guardian), arguing strongly against curtailing the substance of domestic surveillance activities:

“I’m not going to give that insurance policy up, because it’s a necessary component to cover a seam that I can’t otherwise cover,” Inglis said.

That shows show much of what’s wrong with the NSA. This.is.not.his.call.

Politics decide on the limits, not the director of the NSA. A ‘careful separation of powers and iron-clad rights watched over by a vigilant public’ are what separates us from tyranny.