The BLL was again active at the international CPDP.ai conference in Brussels. Catherine Jasserand and Bilgesu Sumer were invited and participated in the panel Navigating Regulatory Challenges in Soft Biometric Technologies organized by the Dutch data protection authority. The full panel discussion was registered and can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QnQ1N0XPho
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
During the summer, the BLL was alive and very active. Catherine Jasserand contributed to two (!) summer schools: - the 3rd edition of the EUDiCRI Summer School on Digital Biometrics in the Era of the AI Act, organised by the University of Oriental Piedmont in Italy, where she presented on '
Catherine Jasserand and Els J. Kindt of the Biometric Law Lab are proud to announce to be member of the COST CA24128 expert network eVoiceNet which was selected in this year’s higly competitive COST programme (a research funding program by the EU Commission and EU Member States) (8 % of