In the media
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Border control and checks: a symbolic measure 30 October 2024
As part of its plans to introduce a stricter asylum policy, the Dutch cabinet wants to expand checks at internal borders within the EU. Professor of L...
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The police has been storing personal data for years – but is it allowed? 17 October 2024
The Dutch police force has been deliberately storing personal data relating to millions of Dutch people for many years now. In doing so, the instituti...
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Ruling on FIFA transfer rules could have major impact 09 October 2024
According to the European Court of Justice, FIFA's rules governing million-dollar transfers in global professional football violate European legislati...
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Outcry over unorthodox measures: victims of Dutch childcare benefits scandal bought out 02 October 2024
The proposal made by the Dutch Benefits Agency (part of the Ministry of Finance) to issue one-off compensation payments of €5,000 in the wake of the D...
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Bart Custers on tech companies involved in criminal activities 20 September 2024
Governments are increasingly cracking down on tech companies like X, Telegram and Clearview that flout the law, with a fine, ban or criminal prosecuti...
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Children are afraid to say the wrong thing to judges in divorce proceedings 16 September 2024
Do courts take children's experiences properly into account in divorce proceedings? Research by Villa Pinedo shows that children often fear saying the...
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Bart Custers comments on Telegram’s catalogue of crimes 13 September 2024
Instant messaging app Telegram is not faring well in the news – the reason being the illicit activities occurring on the platform. Professor Bart Cust...
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Abuse of Vlaardingen foster child reveals youth care problems 10 September 2024
Months after the case of the abused foster child from Vlaardingen (Zuid-Holland) came to light, many questions still remain. Why was the child not lis...
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Bart Custers writes blog post on judge who used ChatGPT 09 September 2024
This month, it came out that a subdistrict court judge used ChatGPT to formulate a ruling. The judge included some text generated by the popular AI ch...
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Bart Custers discusses fake news on facial recognition at Jumbo 09 September 2024
Misleading social media posts are falsely claiming that the Dutch supermarket chain Jumbo uses facial recognition at self-service checkouts. Jumbo den...
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Bart Custers discusses arrest of Telegram CEO in 'Trouw' 09 September 2024
Pavel Durov, CEO of chat and messaging app Telegram, was arrested in France last week. The Russian tech billionaire flew into Paris by private jet and...
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Complaints from universities about student use of ChatGPT are crocodile tears 06 September 2024
Universities should not be surprised that students use ChatGPT, write Leiden University lecturers Femke Klaver and Alexander de Wit in Dutch newspaper...
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Pregnant and drug dependent: Ministry of Justice tries to intervene with prosecution 26 August 2024
Drug use during pregnancy seems like a choice without any consequences. However, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service (OM) has decided to prosecute a ...
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Joris van de Riet: ‘Student associations are an asset – don’t dismiss them’ 13 August 2024
The Dutch cabinet’s plans to introduce a ‘langstudeerboete’ (‘long-term study penalty’) are causing quite a stir. PhD candidate Joris van de Riet has ...
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Danny Mekić is ‘Mr. of the Week’ 08 August 2024
On 22 July, Danny Mekić, PhD candidate at eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technology and Eindhoven University of Technology, was named ‘Mr. of the W...