Rosamunde Van Brakel

Biography

Rosamunde van Brakel is a researcher and doctoral candidate at the Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) Research Group where she is finalising her PhD on preemptive surveillance of children and its consequences. She has been doing research on the social, ethical and legal consequences of new technologies since 2006. In addition, she is executive director and co-founder of the NGO Privacy Salon and managing director of the annual international Conference Computers, Privacy and Data Protection. Rosamunde van Brakel studied at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the University of Ottawa and obtained degrees in both educational sciences and criminology. She also followed courses on children's rights, human rights, international relations and security studies. She has previously worked as a policy assistant for the Representative of the Flemish Government in the UK and as a researcher for the Belgian Ministry of Justice. From 2011-2014 she conducted research at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels on freedom infringements of transport security technologies and evaluation and certification schemes for security products in the context of the EU FP7 projects SIAM and CRISP. From 2014-2015 she was seconded to work as a research fellow for the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy on the project: Big Data, Privacy and Security.

Research Interest

She has been doing research on the social, ethical and legal consequences of new technologies