Liberties in the Information Society

The unit deals with questions linked to the protection of privacy and personal data, e-government, access to official documents, the commercialisation of public data and freedom of expression. These issues are analysed in the context of information and communication technologies. The cell also examines the subject of electronic democracy.

The study of the impact of new technologies on rights and liberties forms the object of numerous research projects, which together cover the following principle themes :

• personal data protection legislation
• personal data protection on the internet
• transborder data flows
• e-health
• medical and genetic data
• electronic democracy
• new surveillance technologies
• cybercrime

Research Units involved

• Law researchs (DDR)
• Research Center on IT and Law (CRID)

Running projects (8)

• Report on the modernisation of the Convention 108 for the protection of individuals with regard to automatic processing of personal data. (COE Convent 108-II) (since 2011)
  Cécile DE TERWANGNE
• Trans-border data flows : - studies on the adequacy of the protection of personal data in third countries, international organisations, ... - analysis of the EU-US relationships in that matter - study on the possible modification of Directive 95/46 in that matter (CE-FluxV) (since 2011)
  Claire GAYREL, Florence DE VILLENFAGNE
• - (UNHCR) (since 2011)
  Jean-Marc VAN GYSEGHEM
• Protectrail (CE-Protectrail) (2010-2013)
  Franck DUMORTIER, Jean-Marc VAN GYSEGHEM
• LAPSI (Legal Aspects of Public Sector Information) European thematic network (CE-LAPSI) (2010-2012)
  Caroline COLIN, Cécile DE TERWANGNE, Cristina DOS SANTOS, Séverine DUSOLLIER, Maria José IGLESIAS
• PRACTIS - Privacy-Appraising Challenges to Technologies and Ethics (CE-Practis) (2010-2012)
  Caroline COLIN, Séverine DUSOLLIER, Claire LOBET-MARIS, Alexis VAN ESPEN
• E-Health (RW FEDER-eHeath) (since 2009)
  Rokia BENDAOUD, Lim ERBIN, Jean-Luc HAINAUT, Philippe THIRAN, Jean-Marc VAN GYSEGHEM
• SEE "Electronic Identities Transaction Platform" (RW-SEE) (2009-2012)
  Cécile DE TERWANGNE, Cristina DOS SANTOS, Herve JACQUEMIN

Terminated projects (73)

• Study of personal data protection system and its enforcement mechanisms within INTERPOL (INTERPOL) (2010-2011)
  Claire GAYREL, Florence DE VILLENFAGNE
• - (COE-Convention 108) (2010)
  Cécile DE TERWANGNE, Jean-Marc DINANT, Jean-Philippe MOINY
• Legal support to the Walloon Region in order to transpose the INSPIRE Directive (2007/2/EC) in the Walloon legal framework (SPW-Inspire) (2010)
  Cristina DOS SANTOS, Feyrouze OMRANI
• - (EXPANSION-Vie privée) (2010)
  Jean HERVEG
• Organization of a workshop on cloud computing. (COE-Conf_Cloud) (2010)
  Maria Grazia PORCEDDA, Jean-Marc VAN GYSEGHEM
• Drafting a preliminary project of recommendation on data protection regarding profiling (COE-ProfilageIV) (2010)
  Jean-Marc DINANT
• Legal support to the Belgian Privacy Protection Commission in the Framework of the preparation and the holding of a Conference on 22 and 23 November 2010. (CPVP) (2010)
  Feyrouze OMRANI, Jean-Marc VAN GYSEGHEM
• Implications of cloud computing on data protection (COE-Cloud Computing) (2009-2011)
  Claire GAYREL, Jacques GÉRARD, Jean-Philippe MOINY, Yves POULLET, Jean-Marc VAN GYSEGHEM
• Urban Eyes : analysis of the video-surveillance policies led by the local Belgian authorities (SPF INT.-Urban Eyes) (2009-2010)
  Franck DUMORTIER
• (CF-TIRO) (2009)
  Jessica DALLAPICCOLA, Claire LOBET-MARIS
• Legal advice on transposition of the INSPIRE directive in the Brussel's region. (IBGE-Inspire) (2008-2009)
  Caroline COLIN, Cécile DE TERWANGNE, Maria José IGLESIAS, Jean-Philippe MOINY
• Drafting a preliminary project of recommendation on data protection regarding profiling (COE-ProfilageII) (2008)
  Denis DARQUENNES, Jean-Marc DINANT, Christophe LAZARO, Yves POULLET, Antoinette ROUVROY
• sn (CE-WP29) (2008-2009)
  Yves POULLET
• e-CMR in the frame of the competitivity pole Logistics in Wallonia (Plan Marshall) (RW-eCMR) (2008-2009)
  Cristina DOS SANTOS, Florence DE VILLENFAGNE
• Study on the institutional and legal framework of ICT in Burkina Faso (MINBURKINA-Soc info) (2008)
  Cécile DE TERWANGNE, Marie DEMOULIN, Franck DUMORTIER, Séverine DUSOLLIER, Maria José IGLESIAS, Etienne MONTERO, Yves POULLET, Tonssira SANOU, Céline SCHÖLLER, Aurélie VAN DER PERRE
• - (CE-Flux IV) (2008-2010)
  Caroline COLIN, Jessica DALLAPICCOLA, Cécile DE TERWANGNE, Franck DUMORTIER, Julie FELD, Claire GAYREL, Florence DE VILLENFAGNE
• (CIRB-don. médicales) (2007-2008)
  Yves POULLET
• Wireless Acquisition and LInk for Body Information (RW-Walibi) (2007-2010)
  Jean HERVEG
• Secure and ethics study and use of RFIDs (RW-Euser) (2007-2009)
  Denis DARQUENNES, Cécile DE TERWANGNE, Franck DUMORTIER, Yves POULLET, Antoinette ROUVROY, Florence DE VILLENFAGNE
• Authentification and legal access in WiFi networks (RW-Alawn) (2007-2010)
  Marie DEMOULIN, Jean-Marc DINANT, Claire GAYREL, Julien JOST, Caroline KER, Robert QUECK, Romain ROBERT, Florence DE VILLENFAGNE
• Legal and methodological aspects of informatical mutualisation in the public sector - General approach and zoom on the local instances (easi wall mutual) (2007)
  David DE ROY, Yves POULLET, Aurélie VAN DER PERRE
• Comparison of privacy and trust policies in the area of the electronic communication (CE-WikPrivacy) (2007)
  Franck DUMORTIER, Yves POULLET
• Feasability study of one computerised information portail concerning social sciences (SSTC-Archivage-SODA) (2006-2007)
  Véronique LAURENT, Nathalie LEFEVER, Claire LOBET-MARIS, Yves POULLET
• Application of the Data Protection principles to the profiling activities (COE-Profilage) (2006-2007)
  Jean-Marc DINANT, Christophe LAZARO, Nathalie LEFEVER, Yves POULLET
• Legal analysis of some questions related to the implementation of a mutualisation project by the GIE "Qualicité" (GIE-Qualicité) (2006)
  David DE ROY, Yves POULLET
• Multimodal Interactions Analysis and exploration of Users within Controlled Environment (CE-Miauce) (2006-2010)
  Caroline COLIN, Mathieu CORNELIS, Denis DARQUENNES, Nathalie GRANDJEAN, Claire LOBET-MARIS, Yves POULLET, Antoinette ROUVROY
• Legal assistance related to the conception and the drafting of the royal decrees pertaining to the 10 august 2005 law instituing the Phenix information system and the electronic procedure law (SPFJUS-Phenix) (2006)
  Denis DARQUENNES, Cécile DE TERWANGNE, Caroline KER, Yves POULLET, Laurent SCHUMACHER
• Implementation of a e-health portal for the region of Brussels-Capitale in order to share data between hospitals and doctors in digital global medical folder (DMGI) (RBC-Cirb) (2006)
  Yves POULLET, Jean-Marc VAN GYSEGHEM
• Legal issues for the advancement of information society technologies (CE-Legal IST) (2006-2007)
  Maria José IGLESIAS, Yves POULLET
• Development of normative principles aiming at framing the black lists (SPFECO-ListesNoires) (2006)
  Cedric BURTON, Yves POULLET
• Legally e-Health (EHMA-Legally-eHealth) (2006-2007)
  Jean HERVEG, Jean-Marc VAN GYSEGHEM
• Advancing Clinico-Genomic Clinical Trials on Cancer: Open Grid Services for Improving Medical Knowledge Discovery (ACGT) (CE-ACGT) (2006-2010)
  Cécile DE TERWANGNE, Jean HERVEG, Jean-Marc VAN GYSEGHEM
• Study of the legal questions raised by the conclusion and execution of the subcontracts existing between associations telematics and their subcontractors (RW-Altem) (2006-2009)
  Cécile DE TERWANGNE, Yves POULLET, Jean-Marc VAN GYSEGHEM
• Study on Legal and Regulatory Aspects of eHealth (CE-eHealth) (2006)
  Cécile DE TERWANGNE, Jean HERVEG, Isabelle VEREECKEN
• Supporting and Structuring HealthGrid Activities and Research in Europe : Developing a roadmap (CE-Share) (2006-2007)
  Isabelle ANDOULSI, Cécile DE TERWANGNE, Jean HERVEG, Yves POULLET
• Legal assistance for the application of the data protection law to the Belgian Tax Ministry (SPFFIN-Privacy) (2005-2007)
  Nathalie LEFEVER, Yves POULLET, Isabelle VEREECKEN, Florence DE VILLENFAGNE
• Study on the institutional and legal framework of ICT in Niger (NIGER-TIC) (2005-2006)
  Yorick COOL, Franck DUMORTIER, Yves POULLET, Isabelle VEREECKEN
• Teens and ITC : Risks and Opportunities (SSTC-TIRO) (2005-2008)
  Sarah GALLEZ, Magali DOCK, Céline SCHÖLLER, Claire LOBET-MARIS, Yves POULLET
• CPAS and the use of the Internet, a multidisciplinary frame (CIGER-NetCPAS) (2005-2006)
  Véronique LAURENT, Cedric BURTON, Claire LOBET-MARIS, Yves POULLET
• Audiovisual multimodal Research interface (RW-IRMA) (2005-2008)
  Cedric BURTON, Quentin COPPIETERS 'T WALLANT, Jean-Marc DINANT, Franck DUMORTIER, Caroline KER, Philippe LAURENT, Yves POULLET
• Study of the legal issues raised by the implementation of ICT in the Communauté française's administration (CF-UtilisationTIC) (2005-2006)
  David DE ROY, Yves POULLET
• Deep analyse of some legal aspects raised by the GOLOG project (GOLOG) (2005-2006)
  Cécile DE TERWANGNE, Karen ROSIER, Jean-Marc VAN GYSEGHEM
• Identification of legal, regulatory and organisational barriers to e-government provision (CE-Egov) (2005-2007)
  David DE ROY, Cécile DE TERWANGNE, Cristina DOS SANTOS, Yves POULLET, Isabelle VEREECKEN, Florence DE VILLENFAGNE
• Rules for the use of e-mail within wallonish public administration (RW-Wallonline) (2004-2005)
  Cécile DE TERWANGNE, Yves POULLET, Isabelle VEREECKEN, Florence DE VILLENFAGNE
• Convention Aarhus 2 (SPFEnv-Aarhus2) (2004-2005)
  David DE ROY, Nathalie POUPAERT, Isabelle VEREECKEN
• Legal assistance regarding protection of privacy and securing data management (FEDICT-Privacy) (2004-2005)
  Cedric BURTON, Cécile DE TERWANGNE, Yves POULLET, Isabelle VEREECKEN, Florence DE VILLENFAGNE
• Privacy in an Information Society : New Challenges, new rights (2004-2005)
  Jean-Marc DINANT, Yves POULLET
• Legal study concerning the Observatory on Childhood, Youth and Help to Youth (2004)
  Cécile DE TERWANGNE, Karen ROSIER
• Legal aspects of e-mail in the relationships between Administrations and citizens (2004)
  Laetitia DEPLANQUE, Yves POULLET
• Aarhus convention (SPFEnv-Aarhus1) (2004)
  Cécile DE TERWANGNE, Nathalie POUPAERT
• health (SPFSanté-Enquête) (2004)
  Karen ROSIER
• study of different aspects dealing with the transfer of personal data to third countries (CE-Flux) (2003-2006)
  Cécile DE TERWANGNE, Jan DHONT, Franck DUMORTIER, Virginie FOSSOUL, Yves POULLET, María Veroníca PÉREZ ASINARI, Florence DE VILLENFAGNE
• DMMG (Meditel-DMMG) (2003-2004)
  Jean HERVEG, Yves POULLET, Jean-Marc VAN GYSEGHEM
• GRID-enabled Medical Simulation Services (CE-Gemss) (2002-2005)
  Jean HERVEG, Yves POULLET
• New Hospital Concept (2002-2003)
  Jean HERVEG
• RESPECT (CE-Respect) (2002-2004)
  Cécile DE TERWANGNE, Séverine DUSOLLIER, Yves POULLET, Karen ROSIER, Isabelle VEREECKEN
• Privacy : Human Liberty or Consumer right? The EU-US dialogue" (2002-2003)
  Jan DHONT, Yves POULLET, María Veroníca PÉREZ ASINARI
• Infrasig (RW-Infrasig) (2002-2004)
  David DE ROY, Cécile DE TERWANGNE, Nathalie POUPAERT
• IRIS II et III (2002-2004)
  Yves POULLET, Jean-Marc VAN GYSEGHEM
• SSTC-privacy (2002-2003)
  Cécile DE TERWANGNE, Jean-Marc DINANT, Axel LEFEBVRE, Yves POULLET, Nathalie POUPAERT
• C-Tose, Cybertools for searching Electronic Evidence (CE-C-Tose) (2001-2003)
  Jean-Marc DINANT, Olivier LEROUX, María Veroníca PÉREZ ASINARI
• IRIS I (2001-2002)
  Jan DHONT, Marie-Noelle VERHAEGEN
• e-CT. Electronics calls for tenders (E- CITIES) (2001-2002)
  David DE ROY, Cécile DE TERWANGNE, Nathalie POUPAERT
• Telecom architecture for hospital urgency services (ARTHUR) (2000-2003)
  Olivier BONAVENTURE, Laetitia DEPLANQUE, Guy DEVILLE, Véronique DUMONT, Jean HERVEG, Claire LOBET-MARIS, Michaël PETIT, Yves POULLET, Pierre REINBOLD, Anne ROUSSEAU, Pierre-Yves SCHOBBENS, Marie-Noelle VERHAEGEN
• Multi-application Smart cards in Cities (CE-SMARTCITIES) (2000-2003)
  Alexandre CRUQUENAIRE, Ewout KEULEERS, Yves POULLET
• Public Administration and electronic Commerce in Europe (PACE) (2000-2002)
  Alexandre CRUQUENAIRE, David DE ROY, Cécile DE TERWANGNE, Jan DHONT
• Tele-services in cities (UVC) (1999-2000)
  Cécile DE TERWANGNE, Yves POULLET, Vincent TILMAN
• Vademecum on the diffusion of public information : Ministry of Economic Affairs (1999)
  Dominique DIENG, Yves POULLET
• The processing of personal data to scientific ends (1998)
  Jan DHONT, Yves POULLET
• Experts in the East (1998)
  Jean-Marc DINANT, Axel LEFEBVRE, Sophie LOUVEAUX, Yves POULLET
• Transposition of the directive "data protection" (1998)
  Sophie LOUVEAUX, Yves POULLET, Nancy RISACHER
• Research and interdisciplinary assessment on the information society : networks, uses and roles of the State (1997-2001)
  Sandro BAZZANELLA, Paul BELLEFLAMME, Jacques BERLEUR, Jean-Marie CHEFFERT, Dominique DIENG, Tanguy EWBANK DE WESPIN, Marie D'UDEKEM D'ACOZ-GEVERS, Laurent HENIN, Axel LEFEBVRE, Caroline LOUVEAUX, Claire LOBET-MARIS, Laura OGER, Pierre-Yves POTELLE, Yves POULLET, Robert QUECK
• Ph.D. Thesis : Protection of privacy and processing of personal data : emergence of a new right ? (1995-2001)
  Thierry LÉONARD, Yves POULLET

PHDs (7)

• -
  Jean-Philippe MOINY
• (THESE-Schöller) (2009)
  Céline SCHÖLLER
• (THESE-Degrave)
  Elise DEGRAVE
• Research on interactions between Law and Technology : « The "post-human" body at the border of technological and legal normativities (FSR-Lazaro) (2008)
  Christophe LAZARO
• The Patient's Informational Self-determination (THESE-Herveg) (2012)
  Jean HERVEG
• Conflicts of subjective law, civil liberties and legitimate interests : a model of resolution based on opposability and the civil liability (THESE-Léonard) (2004)
  Thierry LÉONARD
• Information society and public mission of information (THESE-deTerwangne) (2001)
  Cécile DE TERWANGNE