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Two prestigious prizes !

E.J. Kindt

20 Oct 2025

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

- the Eduardo García de Enterría Prize granted by the Spanish Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales (Center for Political and Constitutional Studies) https://www.cepc.gob.es/premio-eduardo-garcia-de-enterria This is the the Spanish most prestigious prize for PhD thesis in administrative law !

Congratulations again Natalia !

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

Another biometric project funded by VLAIO

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

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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 …

Another biometric project funded by VLAIO