Prof. F.J. Zuiderveen Borgesius

Prof. Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius was a senior researcher at the Institute for Information law (IViR) and is now a fellow at IViR. He is Professor of Law at the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences (iCIS) of Radboud University, Nijmegen. There he is also affiliated with the iHub, a new interdisciplinary research hub on Security, Privacy, and Data Governance. His research interests include privacy, data protection, discrimination, and freedom of expression, especially in the context of new technologies. In 2015 he published a book ‘Improving privacy protection in the area of behavioural targeting’ with Kluwer Law International. In 2018, he worked as a Marie Curie fellow at the LSTS Research Group on Law, Science, Technology & Society, at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. In 2019, he wrote a report for the Council of Europe, on ‘Discrimination, Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Decision-Making’ He is a member of the Meijers Committee, an independent group of experts in the field of European law. He is also a member of the board of editors of the European Data Protection Law Review, and of the Dutch journals Computerrecht (Computer Law) and the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Mensenrechten (journal of the Dutch Section of the International Commission of Jurists). He is also a fellow of the Personalised Communication project. He has presented at many international conferences, and at the Dutch and the European parliaments. He regularly comments in national and international media.