Organising Institution
CPDP
Belgium
Academic Session III
- Panel
- Class Room
- Friday 22.05 — 16:00 - 17:15
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 more broadly. Papers were selected through an open call and presented to foster exchange beyond academia. The session features Inequality by Infrastructure: How Regulatory Data Infrastructures Produce Infrastructural Inequalities (Giulia Campaioli, Sruthi Vanguri, Mattéo Bard & Stefania Milan), Where Trust Fails: Mapping Location-Data Provenance Risks in Europe (Eduardo Brito & Liina Kamm), Beyond Modern Dualisms: Reconstructing Techno-Theology through Animism and Divine Ethics (Xu Xu & Qiao Yan), and Permission Impossible? Consent, Competition, and the Future of Financial AI under the European Financial Data Space (Àndrés Chomczyk Penedo).
Moderator
Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius
Radboud University - Netherlands
Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius is professor ICT and law. He works at the iHub (part of Radboud University), the interdisciplinary research hub on digitalization and society. His research mostly concerns fundamental rights, such as privacy and non-discrimination rights, in the context of new technologies. He regularly advises policymakers. His team and he are part of the EU-funded project FINDHR.
Speaker
Giulia Campaioli
University of Amsterdam - Netherlands
Giulia Campaioli is a Postdoctoral Researcher at DATAGOV, ERC-funded project at the University of Amsterdam. She has a PhD in Anthropology and Communication from University Rovira I Virgili, Spain and in Collective Health at University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Networks of digital care is the forecoming book based on her doctoral dissertation - a feminist multimodal ethnography of civil society responses to technology-facilitated gender-related violence across Brazil, Spain, and Italy. Drawing on her background in Psychology and Anthropology, her work explores the datafication of society and its impacts on health, identity, and social relationships. Within DATAGOV, Giulia investigates how health data infrastructures (re)produce inequalities in Brazil and Italy.
Speaker
Eduardo Brito
Cybernetica AS, University of Tartu - Estonia
Eduardo Brito is a Security Engineer and Researcher at Cybernetica AS, Industrial PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Tartu, and Visiting Researcher at CEPS and TU Berlin. His research focuses on trustworthy digital infrastructures, with an emphasis on Proof-of-Location systems, distributed protocols, and verifiable trust mechanisms in digital environments. He works on designing systems that enable auditable and cryptographically grounded evidence of real-world events, contributing to the development of secure and accountable digital systems.
Speaker
Xu Xu
InnerMongolia University - China
Xu Xu is an Associate Professor at the School of Philosophy, Inner Mongolia University, China, and was a Research Fellow at Tohoku University, Japan. His research focuses on philosophy of technology, STS, AI ethics, risk epistemology, and cross-cultural technology governance. His recent work examines responsibility, trust, affect, and governance in emerging AI systems, with particular attention to culturally adaptive approaches to human–AI relations, digital governance, and technological risk.
Speaker
Àndrés Chomczyk Penedo
School of Law (ICADE) - Universidad Pontificia Comillas/LSTS/VUB - Spain
Andrés Chomczyk Penedo is a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Law (ICADE) of the Universidad Pontificia Comillas. He remains as an affiliated researcher at the Law, Science, Technology and Society large research group, where he obtained his PhD in Law, and as a senior fellow in digital finance at the Brussels Privacy Hub of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. During his PhD studies, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions doctoral fellow and worked in several EU-funded projects.