Academic Session II

  • Panel
  • Le Baixu
  • Thursday 21.05 — 17:20 - 18:40

Organising Institution

CPDP

Belgium

The three academic sessions are an integral part of CPDP's mission to connect scholarship with practice and policymaking. In 2026, Academic Session II examines questions of data protection, privacy, and digital governance through an AI lens. Papers were selected through an open call and presented to foster exchange beyond academia. The session features Oversight or Overreach? Rethinking Accountability in Automated Societies (Saffron Sadiq), Setting up a Definition for Regulatory Sandboxes (Thiago Moraes), Data Governance in EU Smart Mobility: Competing Visions of Access, Privacy, and Cybersecurity in Connected Vehicles (Mustapha Jid), and EU-Agent-Bench: Measuring Illegal Behavior of LLM Agents Under EU Law (Mariam Ibrahim, Tiwai Mhundwa, Ilija Lichkovski & Alexander Müller).

Speaker

Saffron Sadiq

University of Cambridge - International

Saffron Sadiq is a researcher working at the intersection of critical digital humanities, AI governance and public policy. She holds an MPhil in Digital Humanities from the University of Cambridge, where her research interrogated meaningful human oversight as both a legal construct and a philosophical ideal, drawing on case studies of algorithmic harm in UK education and policing. Her work proposes the concepts of relational oversight and the unoversightable as alternatives to the reformist framing of human oversight in AI legislation. She currently works at Future Matters, a non-profit focused on AI governance, where she supports coordination across donors, researchers and policymakers.

Speaker

Mustapha JID

Télécom Paris (Institut Polytechnique de Paris) - France

Mustapha Jid is a doctoral researcher at Télécom Paris (Institut Polytechnique de Paris). His research focuses on data sharing, privacy, and cybersecurity in smart mobility systems, with a particular emphasis on the interaction between EU regulatory frameworks and Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs). His current work examines how technical architectures and legal requirements can be aligned to enable secure and privacy-preserving data ecosystems in connected vehicles.

Speaker

Thiago Moraes

Vrije Universiteit Brussels - Belgium

Thiago Moraes is a joint-degree Ph.D. Candidate in Law at University of Brasilia (UnB) and Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB) and a PhD fellow of the Digital Governance cluster at the United Nations University’s Institute on Comparative Regional Integrated Studies (UNU-CRIS). He  holds a LLM in Law & Technology (Tilburg University), MSc in Information Sciences, and two Bachelors, one in Law and another in Network Engineering (UnB). Currently, he works as a Specialist in Data Protection and AI Governance at the Brazilian Data Protection Agency (ANPD) and as a Senior Fellow at the Datasphere Initiative. He has previously worked as Coordinator of Innovation and Research and was the first Data Protection Officer of ANPD. Thiago is co-founder and councilor of the Laboratory of Public Policy and Internet – LAPIN. CIPM, CIPT, CIPP/E, CDPO/BR