- Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
- COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Global Security and Public Health
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Dutch Social and Cultural Studies
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Comparative and International Law Studies
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Research in Social Sciences
- Labor Movements and Unions
- Criminal Law and Evidence
- Graphic Design and Typography
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- International Labor and Employment Law
- Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Design Education and Practice
- Smart Cities and Technologies
- European and International Contract Law
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Health, Medicine and Society
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2020-2024
University of Amsterdam
2020-2024
Radboud University Nijmegen
2020-2022
Amsterdam University of the Arts
2021
Ethics and Public Policy Center
2016-2019
Eindhoven University of Technology
2016-2018
This paper explores and rehabilitates the value of decisional privacy as a conceptual tool, complementary to informational privacy, for critiquing personalized choice architectures employed by self-tracking technologies. Self-tracking technologies are promoted used means self-improvement. Based on large aggregates personal data other users, offer feedback that nudges user into behavioral change. The real-time personalization requires continuous surveillance is very powerful technology,...
This paper critically engages with new self-tracking technologies. In particular, it focuses on a conceptual tension between the idea that disclosing personal information increases one's autonomy and informational privacy is condition for autonomous personhood. I argue while may sometimes prove to be an adequate method shed light particular aspects of oneself can used strengthen autonomy, technologies often cancel out these benefits by exposing too much about unspecified audience, thus...
Mobile applications for digital contact tracing have been developed and introduced around the world in response to COVID-19 pandemic. Proposed as a tool support 'traditional' forms of contact-tracing carried out monitor contagion, these apps triggered an intense debate with respect their legal ethical permissibility, social desirability general feasibility. Based on large-scale study including qualitative data from 349 interviews conducted nine European countries (Austria, Belgium, France,...
Calls for solidarity have been an ubiquitous feature in the response to COVID-19 pandemic. However, we know little about how people thought of and practised their everyday lives since beginning What role does play people's lives, it relate public health measures has changed different phases pandemic? Situated within medical humanities at intersection philosophy, bioethics, social sciences policy studies, this article explores practice-based understanding formulated by Prainsack Buyx helps...
The sudden and dramatic advent of the COVID-19 pandemic led to urgent demands for timely, relevant, yet rigorous research. This paper discusses origin, design, execution SolPan research commons, a large-scale, international, comparative, qualitative project that sought respond need knowledge among researchers policymakers in times crisis. form organization as commons is characterized by an underlying solidaristic attitude its members intrinsic organizational features which data study shared...
Abstract This research statement presents a roadmap for the ethical evaluation of contact tracing apps. Assuming possible development an effective and secure app, this explores three concerns—privacy, data monopolists coercion- based on scenarios. The first scenario envisions critically evaluates app that is built conceptualization privacy as anonymity mere individual right rather than social value. second sketches discusses adequately addresses concerns but facilitated by such Google Apple....
This paper contains a normative interpretation and critique of Palantir's expansion into the health domain by using conceptual lens 'sphere transgressions'. The technology company, known for its activities in sphere security, expanded during pandemic, providing software to monitor spread Covid-19. In 2019 Palantir was severely criticized human rights organizations role Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) under Trump administration. Activists politicians worry about move health. However, is...
All of us at Apple and Google believe there has never been a more important moment to work together solve one the world's most pressing problems. Through close cooperation collaboration w...