BLL participates in PLSC Europe

E.J. Kindt

04 Nov 2026

PLSC Europe is a paper workshop conference that supports in-progress scholarship on information privacy law. It brings together privacy scholars, practitioners, and scholars from various disciplines, also non-legal domains. It is inspired by the PLSC in the USA.

BBL members participated in PLSC Europe held in Leuven on 29 and 20 October 2026. Natalia Menéndez Gonzalez, Catherine Jasserand, Abdullah Elbi, Bilgesu Sümer, and César Augusto Fontanillo Lopez were all present as both discussants (i.e. commenting on a paper written by other author(s)) and as authors or co-authors of a paper. They wrote about biometrics (as a concept), biometric verification, identifiability and risks.

Two-days workshop on Biometric Protected Templates by the EAB and new Handbook on BPT

The European Association for Biometrics holds a two-days workshop on October 14 and 15 with various presentations on Biometric Protected Templates. BLL member Els J. Kindt addressed the question if there is a ‘Legal Obligation to Protect Biometric Information’. The presentation slides can be found in our repository. She

BLL members are partners in the new European project DEFORM

DEFORM (Deepfake detection and Explainability using Foundation Representation Models) develops explainable AI methods for detecting multimodal deepfakes (image, video and audio), designed to support expert judgement in forensic, judicial, and policy contexts. DEFORM will develop multimodal manipulation detection and provide modular and multi-level explainability mechanisms for deepfake detection, supporting

Two expert reports for the EU Commission on AI prohibited practices (Art. 5 AIA), including remote biometric identification

The EU Publications Office published the reports made by Catherine Jasserand and by Els J. Kindt for the EU Commission on selected Art. 5 AI Act prohibitions and conditions, including on remote biometric identification. They served as input to the Commission’s Guidelines on Art. 5 AI Act: * E. J.

Many dissemination events …

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

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Two-days workshop on Biometric Protected Templates by the EAB and new Handbook on BPT

BLL members are partners in the new European project DEFORM

Two expert reports for the EU Commission on AI prohibited practices (Art. 5 AIA), including remote biometric identification

Many dissemination events …