Abdullah Elbi is very busy disseminating knowledge on biometric data processing and AI. On 24 April 2026 he made a presentation entitled “Zoom Out: Lessons from EU Research Projects on Biometric Technologies from the Border Security Domain” at the final event of the KU Leuven AI & Human Rights Clinic
Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship (VLAIO) funded a new project SCAMPER to develop advanced privacy-preserving methods to protect biometric and other sensitive data. These methods will rely on inherent multi-factor authentication and multiple verification steps for strong biometric authentication. The project combines partners from industry and academia. Bilgesu Sumer from the
Part I of a journal article on biometric identifiability by BLL member César Augusto Fontanillo Lopez was published in the 4/2025 issue of the European Data Protection Law Review just received. Part II will come in the next issue. Reading recommended !
The 2026 handbook on biometric template protection published by Springer is out since a few days. It contains a chapter by Catherine and Els on the legal obligation to protect biometric information. For the references, check out this website’s other pages with publication references.
The Ph.D entitled ‘Cultured Proportionality: Navigating the EU’s Fragmented Facial Recognition Landscape’ defended by Natalia Menéndez González in spring 2025 (see our post below) won (already) two prizes: - the Special Distinction of the European Public Law Organization Thesis Prize (https://egpl.eplo.int/index.php/thesis-prize/), and