Study and work

Jul. 2021 - present: Assistant Professor in Law and Technology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Jan. 2021 - Jun. 2021: Lecturer in Law and Technology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Jun. 2020 - Dec. 2020: Postdoctoral Researcher in exposure notification apps, Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam.

Mar. 2016 - May. 2020: PhD Candidate in Information Law, Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam.

Nov. 2019 - Apr. 2019: Research visit Centre for Intellectual Property Law and Information Law, University of Cambridge, UK.

Sep. 2013 - Feb. 2016: Research Master's in Information Law, University of Amsterdam.

Jun. 2015 - Dec. 2015: Internship at the Rathenau Instituut, the Hague, and the Consulate General of the Netherlands in San Francisco.

Sep. 2014 - Dec. 2014: LLM exchange program, Cardozo Law School, New York City.

Sep. 2009 - Feb. 2013: Bachelor in Law, University of Amsterdam.

Ancillary activities

Sep. 2023 - present: Board member of the Meijer's Committee.

Mar. 2021 - present: Member of the Meijer's Committee.

2020: Member of the Amsterdam Law School's diversity committee.

Jan. 2018 - Oct 2018: Chair of the University of Amsterdam's Central PhD Council.

Nov. 2016 - Oct 2018: Board member of the University of Amsterdam's Central PhD Council.

Events

Invited speaker: 'The border between private and public mediated communication', Authority for Consumers & Markets, The Hague, 18 Jul. 2024.

Invited speaker to the roundtable on illegal content and products on Telegram, organised by the Justice and Security committee of the Dutch Lower House, The Hague, 23 May 2024.

With F. Zuiderveen Borgesius. Presentation: 'Mapping the bulk surveillance debate', Surveillance & Society Conference, Ljubljana (online), 29 May 2024.

Guest lecture: 'Privacy and data protection law', University of Amsterdam, 6 Dec. 2023.

Introductory lecture at screening of Perfect Blue, Rialto VU, Amsterdam 9 Nov. 2023.

With F. Zuiderveen Borgesius. Presentation: 'What are the arguments in favour of and against bulk surveillance by the state?', Beyond Data Protection Conference, Utrecht University, 21 Sep. 2023.

Presentation: 'Towards EU anti-disinformation law', Digital Legal Talks, Utrecht, 15 Sep. 2023.

With S. De Conca and M. Leiser. Panel organiser and moderator: 'Deceptive design in online interfaces and system architecture - Questions for EU law', CPDP Conference, Brussels, 25 May 2023.

Invited speaker: 'EU competences regarding disinformation: should we empower the EU to do more?', Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research Toogdag, 23 Jun. 2022.

With T. van der Linden and A. de Hingh. Organiser: 'Mini-conference - Regulating disinformation: legal struggles and risks of privatization', Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 22 Jun. 2022.

Incompany course lecturer: 'Regulering van online aanbevelingssystemen voor nieuws', Van Doorne, Amsterdam, 7 Jun. 2022.

With T. Sharon. Panel organiser: 'When privacy and data protection rules, what and who loses out?', CPDP Conference, Brussels, 25 May 2022.

With S. De Conca. Panel organiser and moderator: 'UPLOAD_ERROR: Automated Decisions, Users’ Right to Redress, and Access to Justice on Social Networks', CPDP Conference, Brussels, 24 May 2022.

Invited speaker: 'Online news personalisation: risks and opportunities for the enjoyment of fundamental rights', event 'Influencing users' behaviour online: defining the challenges and exploring regulatory responses', Utrecht University (online), 10 Feb. 2022.

Invited speaker: 'Gegevensverwerking door Europol', event 'Meer weten is meer weten of meer macht?', Netherlands Helsinki Committee, Den Haag (online), 22 Jan. 2022.

Presentation: 'The reach of EU law over national security issues', The Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy (TPRC), Washington, DC (online), 22 Sep. 2021.

With N. Helberger. Paper workshop: 'Regulating digital contact tracing for communicable diseases', Privacy Law Scholars Conference, Georgetown University, Washington, DC (online), 3 Jun. 2021.

With T. Sharon, M. Lanzing, L. Siffels, N. Helberger, J. Strycharz, J. van Apeldoorn and M. Sax. Panel organiser: 'Digital technologies during Covid-19: A multi-disciplinary problematization of privacy’s value hegemony', Conference TILTing Perspectives, Tilburg (online), 20 May 2021.

Panellist at: 'Big Tech Platforms as "societal problem solvers": How to organise democratic oversight and control', Conference TILTing Perspectives, Tilburg (online), 20 May 2021.

With N. Helberger, J. Toh, G. Bouchè and N. Appelman. Panel organiser: 'Big Tech Platforms as "societal problem solvers": How to organise democratic oversight and control', Conference TILTing Perspectives, Tilburg (online), 20 May 2021.

Presentation: 'The reach of EU law over national security issues: La Quadrature du Net a.o. and Privacy International', Conference TILTing Perspectives, Tilburg (online), 19 May 2021.

Invited presentation: 'Regulating news personalization: requirements from a fundamental rights perspective', Digital Ideas Lunch Series, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin (online), 28 Apr. 2021.

Guest lecture: 'A legal perspective on disinformation', Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam (online), 10 Mar. 2021.

Invited presentation: 'Digital technologies for corona - moving beyond the rights to privacy and data protection', University of Rome Unitelma Sapienza (online), 9 Mar. 2021.

Moderator at: 'Humane Conversations – Sennay Ghebreab and Hinda Haned Understanding and mitigating bias in AI automated systems', Human(e) AI, University of Amsterdam (online), 26 Feb. 2021.

Panellist at: 'Automated decision-making: towards effective remedies in a changing world?', CPDP conference, Brussels (online), 28 Jan. 2021.

Panellist at: 'Techtalks #2 - Corona app: waarom we Mark Zuckerberg wel, maar Mark Rutte niet vertrouwen', Rode Hoed, Amsterdam, 8 Dec. 2020.

Panellist at: 'WeMakeThe.City 2020 Marathon - RESET: Healthcare', Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam, 21 Sep. 2020.

Invited presentation: 'AI in the news media: legal issues', Workshop AI in the audiovisual industry, European Audiovisual Observatory, Strasbourg, 17 Dec. 2019.

Invited presentation: 'A right to reset your user profile and more: GDPR rights for personalised news consumers', Ius Commune Congress, KU Leuven, 28 Nov. 2019.

Invited presentation: 'AI applications in online media: freedom of expression and privacy', 2nd Istanbul Privacy Symposium, 22 Nov. 2019.

Paper workshop: 'A protected personal space as guaranteed by European human rights law and the limits it sets for profiling media users', Privacy Law Scholars Conference, Berkeley, CA, 31 Jul. 2019.

Presentation: 'Privacy and information rights of personalised news consumers', Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford, UK, 26 Feb. 2019.

Presentation: 'Personalised news & the GDPR', European Communication Research and Education Association conference (ECREA 2018), Lugano, Switzerland, 31 Oct. 2018.

Presentation: 'Personalised news & the GDPR', Amsterdam Privacy Conference, 7 Oct. 2018.

Organiser of the track 'The regulation of the information society', Amsterdam Privacy Conference (APC 2018), Amsterdam, 5-8 Oct. 2018.

Invited presentation: '"Fake news" science for lawyers', 56th International Young Lawyers Congress, International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA), Brussels, 30 Aug. 2018.

Panellist at 'Digital Privacy, WIV and NGOs', organised by Pro Bono Connect, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, Amsterdam, 8 Mar. 2018.

Invited presentation: 'News personalisation as a data protection problem: individual control under the GDPR', Amsterdam Platform for Privacy Research, 5 Feb. 2018.

Invited presentation: 'Wet op de inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdiensten 2017 - Vertrouwen in de diensten en de rechtsstaat: waar staat de nieuwe wet?', Amsterdamse Academische Club, Amsterdam, 25 Jan. 2018.

Invited presentation: 'News personalisation and the GDPR', Workshop 'Algorithmic Personalization & News', Hans-Bredow-Institut, Hamburg, 7 Dec. 2017.

Presentation: 'Challenged by news personalisation: five perspectives on the right to receive information', ECREA symposium 'Digital Democracy: Critical Perspectives in the Age of Big Data', Stockholm, 10 Nov. 2017.

Panel speaker at 'Discussion with Helen Nissenbaum: How should we think about obfuscation?', Spui25, Amsterdam, 11 Oct. 2017.

Invited presentation: 'Critical bots for diversity in personalized news recommendations', Critical Bots Hackathon, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, 16 Jun. 2017.

Presentation: 'Challenged by news personalisation: six perspectives on the right to receive information', Workshop for Young EU Law Scholars, London School of Economics, 1 Jun. 2017.

Presentation: 'Challenged by news personalization: five perspectives on the right to receive information', Conference TILTing Perspectives, Tilburg, 19 May 2017.

Invited presentation: 'Experts tell me algorithms cannot be regulated. I'm a lawyer and this is why I think the experts are wrong', event 'Who controls the algorithms?', Spui25, Amsterdam, 10 Apr. 2017.

Panellist at event 'Big data, veiligheid en criminaliteit', Spui25, Amsterdam, 3 Apr. 2017.

Invited presentation: 'Securing news users’ right to receive information in the context of news personalization', Amsterdam Platform for Privacy Research, 28 Nov. 2016.