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Recent invited keynotes/lectures

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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.

Accountability in the Cloud

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One of the main projects I’m currently involved in is researching and developing accountability mechanisms in modern infrastructures.

TILT is one of the partners in the EU funded A4Cloud project. We currently have 5 people working on this project. The project blurb is below.

Cloud and IT service providers should act as responsible stewards for the data of their customers and users. However the current absence of accountability frameworks for distributed IT services makes it difficult for users to understand, influence and determine how their service providers honour their obligations. A4Cloud will create solutions to support users in deciding and tracking how their data is used by cloud service providers. By combining methods of risk analysis, policy enforcement, monitoring and compliance auditing with tailored IT mechanisms for security, assurance and redress, A4Cloud aims to extend accountability across entire cloud service value chains, covering personal and business sensitive information in the cloud.

A4Cloud will combine socio-economic, legal, regulatory and technical approaches and bring these together into a coherent and interoperable system of tools and services, enabling a shift to ‘Accountability-based approaches for trust and security’ in the cloud. A4Cloud solutions will support service providers in preventing breaches of trust by using audited policy enforcement techniques, assessing the potential impact of policy violations, detecting violations, managing incidents and obtaining redress. It will develop techniques for improved trustworthiness of cloud ecosystems as prerequisite for accountability. Therefore it will create policies and tools that enforce responsibilities while striking a balance between transparency and privacy, and determine issues and constraints for regulators, corporate and institutional service providers, users, and their end-users. A4Cloud will have a lasting impact on the competitiveness of the European ICT sector by addressing major perceived barriers to trustworthy cloud-based services.

TILT will carry out the analysis of the legal issues that will be raised in the project (together with Queen Mary University London) and will be involved in the socio-economic analysis with respect to user an service provider attitudes and expectations, conceptual modelling, risk modelling, and HCI issues.

See www.a4cloud.eu/ for more general information.