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Prof. S. van der Hof is Professor of Law and Digital Technologies at Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law

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Prevent children becoming victims of a data-driven world

The impact of ‘dataveillance’ on children who are monitored from birth via smartphones and FitBits, is great. Children’s rights must be more central when it comes to designing technology.

Remco Pijpers, Simone van der Hof and Ton Liefaard • May 03, 2022

Growing up with AI

UNICEF released a policy guidance draft on AI for children. This piece comments on it and stresses the need for a more precautionary and children-centred approach to such policy discussion.

Simone van der Hof and Eduard Fosch-Villaronga • October 20, 2020 • 1 comment

No one wants to be forgotten

A remarkable and important decision by the European Court of Justice on the right to be forgotten.

Simone van der Hof • May 24, 2014

Identity hacking

Losing your identity on the internet is horribly easy. In fact, you don’t need to do anything other than to create a profile on a social networking site that shows your picture.

Simone van der Hof • February 06, 2014

Playing it right!

Growing up seems synonymous with abandoning play, because play is essentially associated with childhood – or is it?

Simone van der Hof • October 10, 2013

It’s no crime to have bad intentions

Recently, the Dutch court reprimanded the police after an officer posed as an adolescent on the internet to catch a pedophile. Although protecting children against sexual abuse is important, the principles of criminal law still apply.

Simone van der Hof • July 04, 2013 • 1 comment

Giving a voice to kids online

Instead of talking about kids without them, we may learn much more about their worries concerning the internet when we give them a voice in expressing concerns.

Simone van der Hof • April 18, 2013 • 1 comment

Involving children in children's digital rights

By expressing her inaugural lecture on 1 March 2013 Professor S. Van der Hof is accepting her appointment as professor of Law and the Information Society at the Leiden Law School of Leiden University.

Simone van der Hof • March 01, 2013

Even stalkers and sex offenders have a right to use social media

A man is banned from social media to stop him from digitally stalking his ex-wife. The court had to take action, but went a bridge too far in curtailing the stalkers freedom of expression.

Simone van der Hof • February 02, 2013