2024, the final year of the LeADS project, kickstarted with an intensive three-day meeting packed with a wide variety of LeADS activities. Organized by the LeADS consortium, the activities took place in Brussels on the campus by LeADS beneficiary VUB. The first day of the LeADS meeting kicked off with a playtesting session on discussion […]
Brussels, January 2024 – The LeADS Project (Legality Attentive Data Scientists) hosted a highly productive three-day meeting at the LeADS beneficiary Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), focusing on the intersection of law, data science, and technology. The event featured a diverse range of activities, from interactive playtesting sessions to intensive panel discussions and workshops. The event […]
In 2022, our 15 ESRs completed the second year of LeADS. They had an intensive training schedule and attended a cross-disciplinary training program on four occasions. They explored their research topics in the four LeADS Crossroads, resulting in an interdisciplinary report on unsolved challenges in the data economy. This report provided the groundwork for their […]
Consumers who logged into their Facebook account over the past weeks were surprised by a notice informing them that: “You need to make a choice to continue using Facebook. Laws are changing in your region, so we’re introducing a new choice about how we use your info for ads (…)”. Consumers subsequently had to choose […]
On 21-22nd September 2023, the “Beyond Data Protection Conference: Regulating Information and Protection against Risks of the Digital Society” took place in Utrecht, The Netherlands. For 2 days, scholars from all over the world explored the challenges of data-centred legal protection against information-induced harms and considered alternatives beyond data protection. Keynotes were given by the […]
Data Collaboratives with the Use of Decentralised Learning – an Interdisciplinary Perspective on Data Governance Maciej Zuziak (ESR 6), Onntje Hinrichs (ESR 13), and Aizhan Abdrasulova (ESR 12) are the authors of the paper “Data Collaboratives with the Use of Decentralised Learning – an Interdisciplinary Perspective on Data Governance”. The paper constitutes a collaboration across […]
Pisa, Italy, July 2023. The culmination of months of dedicated interdisciplinary research conducted by the group of our 15 Early-Stage-Researchers (ESRs) has resulted in the publication of six cutting-edge working papers. For more than a year have our ESRs been working together in the Legality Attentive Data Scientist project (LeADS) that brings together aspiring researchers […]
ESRs Maciej Zuziak, Onntje Hinrichs and Aizhan Abdrassulova collaborative work got accepted for this years’ ACM conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT) that was held in Chicago from 12-15th of June 2023.
As the year 2022 is coming to an end it is a good point in time to look back at the first LeADS year of our 15 ESRs. Find our more about some of the LeADS highlight in 2022.
On November 24th 2022, ESRs Bárbara Lazarotto and Onntje Hinrichs participated in the Digital Legal Talks in Utrecht, organised by the Digital Legal Lab, and presented their research on the Data Act Proposal.
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