Posts in Category: News

Dating apps have often replaced our mutual acquaintances as trusted matchmakers. But should we trust the tech companies behind them? Balázs Bodó untangles the spider web of trust in our digitalized society. Bodó sees a ‘systematic breakdown of trust in society’. He has recently been appointed as Professor of Information Law and Policy, with special emphasis on Technology Governance.

SLAPPs (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) vormen een groeiende dreiging voor journalisten en de persvrijheid in Nederland en Europa. In deze tweedelige podcast gaan Wisse van der Lelij en Gabi Trogrlić, voormalig masterstudenten Informatierecht, in het kader van het vak International Media Law, Policy and Practice (IMLPP), in gesprek met Emma Bergmans en Jasmijn de Zeeuw van Free Press Unlimited.

Our society’s growing reliance on digital technologies such as AI incurs an ever-growing ecological footprint. Kristina Irion, Associate Professor at the Institute for Information Law, examines the European Union law and policy surrounding data centres. In a recent article, she and co-author Jessica Commins explain why, despite measures to increase energy efficiency and renewable energy consumption, the unfettered growth of the data centres sector jeopardizes the achievement of the 2030 sustainability goal.

In this TL;DR episode, João Quintais explains the interaction between the AI Act and EU copyright law, focusing on text and data mining (TDM). He unpacks key issues like lawful access, opt-out mechanisms, and transparency obligations for AI developers. João explores challenges such as extraterritoriality and trade secrets, offering insights into how voluntary codes of practice and contractual diligence could help align AI innovation with EU copyright rules.

IViR is pleased and proud to announce that Balázs Bodó has been appointed, per 1 January 2025, as a full professor at IViR, to the chair ‘Information Law and Policy, with special emphasis on Technology Governance’.

The University of Amsterdam is providing funding and support for new or early-stage creative media projects that unearth, explore, and critique the digital economy in India from the perspectives of the labour that supports and sustains it.

Following the successful launch of the Information Law Series Archive in September 2024, ten more volumes have now been made freely available online on the IViR website.

Kristina Irion has joined the advisory board of the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law.

Voting in elections in the past used to be done with pen and paper. But over the past decades, countries have switched to electronic voting machines (EVMs). Already from the outset, the use of these machines has been heavily criticised by information security experts, concerned about the possibility of election fraud and the undermining of… Continue reading New report: The right to trust your vote: Cybersecurity, human rights and electronic voting

In April of this year, Open Future approached the ILP Lab to take a closer look at the legal status of the datasets produced by the European participants in the Google Books project.