Activities

In the news

(Note: many of the entries below are in Dutch as they appeared in the national, Dutch, press.)

Media highlights

• Quoted on front page de Volkskrant, 2022-02-15.
• Opening quote 8 o'clock news, NOS Journaal, TV, 2021-01-28.
• Mede-opsteller en ondertekenaar manifest Bescherm onze gezondheid, maar bescherm ook onze rechten, 2020-04-08. Zie ook Privacyorganisaties stellen strenge eisen aan apps tegen corona, Nieuwsuur, NOS web, 2020-04-08.
• Interview Data Mania: waarom krijg ik steeds dezelfde afvertenties te zien, serie op het YouTube kanaal van Brandpunt Plus, KRO/NCRV, 2019-05-06.
• Minister van Defensie verbiedt sport-apps voor militairen, interview, Nieuwsuur, NPO 2, 2018-07-08.
• From October 15, 2015 until July 2018 I was a columnist for the FD (Dutch national financial newspaper), in the 'Morgen' section. My columm appeared once every four to six weeks.
• From January 4, 2016 to March 2018 I was a regular guest on the Dutch national radio news show Nieuws en Co. It aired every workday between 16:00-18:30 on Radio 1.
• The weeks before the 2017 Dutch parliamentary elections the Universiteit van Nederland in cooperation with nu.nl asked several Dutch scientists to reflect on mayor election themes. They asked me to reflect on: Privacy en veiligheid, Universiteit van Nederland / NU.nl, 2017-03-10.
• DigID nieuwe stijl: wie houdt privacy in de gaten?, Interview, RTL Nieuws, 2016-02-15.
• Interview van een uur door Coen Verbraak voor De Kennis van NU, Radio1, 2015-09-13.
• Privacy kun je beschermen door het te ontwerpen. Interview in De Correspondent, 2014-03-25.
• VPRO Labyrint, 2013-07-28. Studio guest in a scientific programme on Dutch national radio about privacy, resulting in an almost one hour long interview.
• VPRO Labyrint 'Digitale Sporen', 2010-03-17. Science program on Dutch TV about the Internet of Things and the digital traces left behind by RFID and such.

List of recent media appearances

2024

• Massaclaim tegen Google: Android-telefoons sluizen privacygevoelige data door naar Google, De Volkskrnt, 2024-04-09.
• Al die Nederlandse data in Amerikaanse clouds, is dat wel verstandig?, De Volkskrant, 2024-03-02.
• Universitair hoofddocent: digitale euro niet gelijk aan contant geld, secuirty.nl, 2024-02-28.
• Zorgen over verdrag dat security-onderzoek criminaliseert, Binnenlands Bestuur, 2024-02-22.
• Meer Nederlands en minder Engels op universiteiten is juist een mooi staaltje van inclusief denken, Netkwesties, 2024-01-17.
• Locatiegegevens Nederlandse mobiele telefoons online te koop aangeboden, security.nl, 2024-01-11
• Nederlandse telefoons online stiekem te volgen: ‘Extreem veiligheidsrisico’, BNR, 2024-01-10.

2023

• Datalek klanten KLM: privégegevens eenvoudig te verzamelen, NOS.nl, 2023-12-18.
• Opluchting na belangrijke wijzigingen in internetbedreigend EU-plan, AG Connect, 2023-11-21.
• Je bent geen moeilijke ouder als je over de privacy van je kind waakt, NU.nl, 2023-11-13.
• Europese privacytoezichthouder houdt seminar over Brussels scanplan, security.nl, 2023-10-16.
• Europe’s CSAM-scanning plan is a tipping point for democratic rights, experts warn, TechCrunch, 2023-10-15.
• Episode of the Privacy & Data-Toepcast, 2023-10-15.
• Privacy-experts: EU-wetsvoorstel tegen digitaal seksueel kindermisbruik is ’waanzin en grensoverschrijdend, NRC, 2023-10-12.
• EU-wetsvoorstel ter bescherming van kinderen baart experts zorgen over privacy: ‘Het is waanzin’, de Volkskrant, 2023-10-12.
• Hoogleraar: client-side scanning leidt tot disproportionele beperking grondrechten, security.nl, 2023-10-11.
• Genoemd in Hoogleraren gaan Tweede Kamer informeren over client-side scanning, security.nl, 2023-10-05.
• “The importance of privacy by design”, I/O magazine, 2023-10.
• Blog geciteerd in Kijkcijfers voortaan een week vertraagd: ‘Waar sláát dit op?’, NRC< 2023-09-15.
• Opinion piece ‘Zet geen verklikker op onze telefoon’, De Ingenieur, 2023-07-19.
• Quoted in Brussel reageert op ophef client-side scanning: scannen berichten gebeurt al, security.nl, 2020-07-20.
• Quoted in Steeds meer campings met gezichtsherkenning: handig, maar mag dit zomaar?, RTL Nieuws (website), 2023-07-19.
• Quoted in Europees plan tegen online kindermisbruik plaatst burgers onder ‘permanente surveillance’, de Volkskrant, 2023-07-18.
• Podcast Captains of Privacy, CIP, June, 2023.
• Quoted in De schimmige wereld van gezichtsherkenning: hoe Clearview ieders privacy schendt, Trouw, 2023-06-04.
• Quoted in Honderden miljoenen wachtwoorden gestolen, softwarebedrijf wil er weinig over kwijt, Follow the Money, 2023-02-10.
• Quote in In de trein, in de kroeg, op een plein of in de tuin bij de buurman. Hoe krijg je zicht op kijkcijfers buitenshuis?, NRC, 2023-01-15.
• Quotes in Zorgen over surveillancestaat weerhouden regering niet van invoering digitale bewijspas, Follow the Money, 2023-01-11.

2022

• Hour long interview in De nacht van…, BNNVARA, NPO 1 Radio, 2022-12-13.
• Digitale europese identiteit een stap dichterbij: moeten we ons zorgen maken, Telegraaf, 2022-12-07.
• Radboud kiest voor veilige Europese cloud om data op te slaan, Vox, 2022-12-07.
• Opiniestuk Universiteit kunnen eenvoudig zelf de instroom beperken, Volkskrant, 2022-11-16. Ook in Vox, 2022-11-17.
• Quoted in Deze zorgen over de Europese wallet-id zijn nog niet weggenomen, AG Connect, 2022-11-11.
• Quoted in Gehackte chats zijn nu vaak nagels aan strafrechtelijke doodskist, advocaten willen er vanaf, Algemeen Dagblad, 2022-10-29.
• Quoted in Hoe bespaar ik meer energie met mijn slimme meter, de Volkskrant, 2022-10-29.
• Deze optimist gelooft in een toekomst met privacy, VOX, Juni 2022.
• Universitair hoofddocent: Europees digitaal identiteitsbewijs gaat te ver, security.nl, 2022-05-27.
• Het Metro-panel over de stelling: ‘Een Europees digitaal identiteitsbewijs en medisch dossier gaan te ver’, 2022-05-26.
• Interview in ‘Superscience: privacy moeilijk? Een mythe!’, AG Connect, 2022-04-26.
• Interview met Ad Verbrugge en Vincent Jansen in De Nieuwe Wereld, 2022-03-25.
• Quoted in Privacyexperts waarschuwen voor blijvende gevolgen van corona-apps, security.nl, 2022-02-22.
• Quoted in Zorgen over Europese digitale identiteit: dit weten we er nu over, NU.nl, 2022-02-22.
• Quoted in Iedereen Gehoorzaam, De Groene Amsterdammer, 2022-02-21.
• Quoted in De coronapas zal nooit meer helemaal verdwijnen, de Volkskrant, 2022-02-15. (Zie ook Rondje Groningen, RTV Noord, 2022-02-15.
• Quoted in column Maxim Februari Tegensputteren kan niet bij online gedragsanalyse, NRC, 2022-01-18.
• Quote in Wie controleert straks onze digitale identiteit?, Follow The Money, 2022-01-18.
• Radio interview privacy risico’s Nationaal Media Onderzoek, BNR Digitaal, 2022-01-12.
• Quoted in Grote zorgen over privacy bij nieuw kijk- en luisteronderzoek, Trouw, 2022-01-12.
• Quoted in ‘NMO media onderzoek brengt ook privacyrisico’s’, One Media, 2022-01-11.
• Quoted in Universitair hoofddocent hekelt privacyrisico’s Nationaal Media Onderzoek, security.nl, 2022-01-09.

See also these older news items and a list of older opinion editorials. My most recent pieces can be found on my blog, that I actively maintain.

Talks and events

Upcoming events

• Member panel “Art. 25 GDPR: Engineering Data Protection into Digital Innovation.”, RuG, Groningen, The Netherlands, 2024-01-17.
• “Lorentz workshop Fair patterns for online interfaces”, Leiden, The Netherlands, 29-01-2024/02-02-2024.
• PrivaSki 2024, Correncon-en-Vercors, France, 11-03-2024/14-03-2024.
• Talk at the AmCham Data Protection & ePrivacy TF, Romania (online), 2024-04-10.
• Annual Privacy Forum, Karlstad, Sweden, 04-09-2024.

Past events

2023

• Talk “eIDAS 2.0”, TNO, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2023-12-11.
• Member of panel on eIDAS, certificates and cryptographic keys: a matter of trust, Trust in Digital Life Convergence 2023 conference, Brussels, Belgium, 2023-12-01.
• Shonan Seminar No.182: Biggest Failures in Privacy, Shonan Village Center, Japan, 2023-10-30/20223-11-02.
• Address to the EDPS Seminar on the CSAM proposal “Point of No Return?”, Brussels, Belgium (remote), 2023-10-23.
• Guest lecture “Privacy design strategies”, Karlstad University, Sweden, 2023-10-23.
• “Mutual Contact Discovery”, Chalmers University, Göteborg, Sweden, 2023-10-16.
• “Rondetafelgesprek over technieken om online kindermisbruik te bestrijden”, Tweede Kamercommissie Digital Zeken, Den Haag, 2023-10-11. Terugkijken
• Keynote “Privacy Is Hard And Seven Other Myths. Achieving Privacy Through Careful Design” for the 18th IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management 2023 - Sharing (in) a Digital World, Oslo, Norway, 2023-08-08.
• Panelmember “Sharing (in) a Digital World”, 18th IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management 2023, Oslo, Norway, 2023-08-07.
• Lezing U. Utrecht, 2023-06-07.
• Member of a panel on Data Protection by Design & by Default, CPDP 2023, Brussels, Belgium, 2023-05-25.
• Presentation “A Privacy Friendly Digital Euro (Using the existing payment infrastructure).” for PEN-NL, Groningen, 2023-05-09.
• Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens college “Privacy Is Hard And Seven Other Myths”, The Hague, 2023-04-17.
• Book discussion, “Privacy Is Hard And Seven Other Myths”, Washington University in St. Louis (online), USA, 2023-04-11.
• “Privacy Is Hard And Seven Other Myths”, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria, 2023-03-20.
• “Privacy Friendly Payment”, Brown Bag Session, iHub, Radboud University, Nijmegen, 2023-02-14.
• Keynote “Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths”, during the celebration of Data Protection Day 2023 at Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2023-01-26.
• “Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths”, RvIG, Den Haag, 2023-01-23.

2022

• “Privacy Is Hard And Some Other Myths”, SUSEC, Sweden/online, 2022-11-16.
• “Een Europese eID? Hoe simpeler, des te veiliger, privacyvriendelijker en inclusiever”, iBestuur, Den Haag, 2022-11-10
• “Privacy is Hard and Seven Other Myths”, Leiden eLaw international master, Leiden, 2022-11-07.
• “Privacy is Hard”, Frauenhofer IIS, Erlangen, 2022-11-04.
• Panel discussion on calculating privacy and the legal tech perspective, Nordic Privacy Arena, Stockholm, Sweden, 2022-09-27.
• “Doing privacy by design: using privacy design strategies and privacy design patterns”, Bosch Privacy Engineering Summit, online, 2022-09-22.
• Panel member “The EU is getting its AI Act together: how to develop AI systems under the Rule of Law?” at the FARI Conference, 2022-07-06, Brussels.
• Panel member SURF Security And Privacy Conference, Groningen, 2022-07-01.
• Keynote “Privacy Is Hard And Some Other Myths” at the SURF Security And Privacy Conference, Groningen, 2022-06-30.
• Keynote “Privacy Is Hard And Some Other Myths” at the “Privacy-friendly and Trustworthy Technology for Society” conference, Zagreb, Kroatia, 2022-06-28.
• Keynote “Bridging the Cryptowar Trenches: Achieving Both Security And Privacy” at the German Science Foundation Event CROSSING, Seehotel Niedernberg, Germany, 2022-06-27.
• Faculteit der Letteren lunch talk, Nijmegen, 2022-06-16.
• Lezing CIO Rijk Informatiebeveiliging en Privacy Teamdag, The Hague, 2022-06-15.
• “Privacy isn’t hard and I’ll show you why.” 2nd Privacy Engineer Conference, San Fransisco / online, 2022-06-08. (cancelled due to platform privacy concerns)
• “Privacy Is Hard And Some Other Myths”, presentation at ‘As closed as necessary…’ How to design for privacy in research. organised by DCC, Groningen, 2022-05-31.
• Brussels Privacy Hub Meet the Author, Brussels, 2022-05-30.
• “Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths”, OsloMET/University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, 2022-05-09.
• “Hacking Music”, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden, 2022-05-06.
• “Mutual Contact Discovery”, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, 2022-05-04.
• Panel member “Privacy enhancing technologies and medical research”, PI.lab Annual Conference, The Hague, 2022-04-21.
• Panel member and speaker, Privacy Symposium, Venice, 2022-04-06.
• Book presentation “Privacy Is Hard”, PI-lab (online), 2022-03-31.
• Presentatie “Privacy Preserving Analysis. Op verantwoorde wijze combineren van verspreide onderzoeksdata”, Symposium: Commerciële apps en wearables in de gezondheidszorg en het omgaan met persoonsgegevens en privacy, waar wringt de schoen?, Groningen, 2022-03-29.
• Talk, “Mutual Contact Discovery”, PrivaSki 2022, Correncon-en-Vercors, 2022-03-08.
• Lezing, “Privacy is Hard And Seven Other Myths”, RDW, Groningen, 2022-03-04.
• Webinar Digital Privacy Day, Forum för Dataskydd, Stockholm, 2022-01-28.
• Privacy by Design: Debunking the myths, Luxembourg KnowledgeNet IAPP Chapter, 2022-01-24.
• Wipro’s Data Privacy Webinar: A Human Approach To Data, (internal), recorded 2022-01-11.

Other activities

• Member of the ethical committee on data and technology of the municipality of Groningen.
• Member of the jury of the CNIL - INRIA Privacy Portection Award 2023.
• Member of the PET Award 2023 Committee for the Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies.
• Member of the advisory board of the Sustainable Computing Lab of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (March 2023 - now).
• Member of the jury of the CNIL - INRIA Privacy Portection Award 2022.
• Member of the PET Award 2022 Committee for the Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies.
• Member of the ENISA Ad Hoc Working Group on Data Protection Engineering (March 2022 - now).
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Weizenbaum Journal of Digital Society (2021-now).
• Member of the PET Award 2021 Committee for the Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies.
• Chair of the advisory board of De Rijdende Popschool (2020-now).
• Chair of the advisory board of Bits of Freedom (2020-now); member since 2018.
• Member of the Board (treasurer) of Media Art Friesland (June 2019 - 2020).
• Small contribution to a great theatre play on the t(h)reats of new technologies "Blinde Vlek": a magnificent and enchanting combination of dance and theatre, brilliantly incorporating a high school gym as a stage...
• My work on privacy design strategies referenced and mentioned in the introduction of ISO standard 27750 "Information technology - Security techniques - Privacy engineering for system life cycle processes".
• Member of the advisory board of the H2020 Olympus project: ObLivious identitY Management for Private and User-friendly Services (2018-now).
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Blockchain & Society Policy Research Lab (2018-now).
• Lid adviescommissie Fintech en Innovatie van de Autoriteit Financiële Markten (AFM) (2017-2020).
• Co-author National Cyber Security Research Agenda (NCSRA III), 2018. Launched June 5, 2018
• Lid Team ICT / NWO adviescommissie wetenschappelijke onderzoeksagenda Blockchain (2017-2018).
• Lid tijdelijke Raad van Advies Programma Integraal Veilig Hoger Onderwijs (IV-HO) (2017-2018).
• Informeel advies aan het Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken over het gebruik van elektronsiche (reken)hulpmiddelen voor het bepalen van de verkiezingsuitslag (2017)
• Member of the jury of the CNIL - INRIA Privacy Award 2017.
• Member of the selection committee for the Data Transparency Lab grants program 2016.
• Member editorial board Journal of Data Protection and Privacy.
• Bi-weekly guest of Dutch national radio news show Nieuws en Co (January 2016 to March 2018).
• Monthly columnist for Het Financiële Dagblad (FD) (October 2015 until July 2018).
• Member of the User Advisory Board of PRISMACLOUD.
• Scientific director (2013-2017) and co-founder of the Privacy & Identity Lab.
• European Research Council reviewer.
• Holder of two Dutch patents and a US patent.

See also these previous activities.