Simone van der Hof

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Professor of Law & Technology @ Center for Law and Digital Technologies (eLaw), Leiden Law School, Leiden University | Child Rights & Digital Tech | Cats | Books | Zen | Zelda | she/her
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Simone van der HofApr 30, 2025
AlderikApr 30, 2025
“The European Commission is considering designating ChatGPT as a systemic platform under the Digital Services Act (DSA) due to its web searching functionality. OpenAI recently reported a jump from 11.2 million to 41.3 million monthly active users in the EU” https://www.mlex.com/mlex/artificial-intelligence/articles/2332484/chatgpt-faces-possible-designation-as-a-systemic-platform-under-eu-digital-law
ChatGPT faces possible designation as a systemic platform under EU digital law | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

OpenAI's landmark chatbot, ChatGPT, is being considered by the European Commission for designation as a systemic platform under the EU Digital Services Act due to its web searching functionality, MLex has learned. OpenAI reported a jump from 11.2 million monthly active EU users in October to 41.3 million in March, nearing the 45 million threshold for such classification. This designation would impose strict regulatory requirements and the payment of a supervisory fee. Questions remain as to whether the designation would solely concern the search feature or the entire chatbot.

Show threadSimone van der HofNov 19, 2024
'age assurance' is an umbrella term used to describe methods that estimate or verify someone’s age. The study finds that so far, age assurance measures have often been ineffective in protecting children from online harm, instead risking their privacy and harming their civil rights. (3/3)
Show threadSimone van der HofNov 19, 2024
meet legal obligations explicitly or implicitly envisaged in legislation such as the Digital Services Act and the UK Online Safety Act 2023. (2/3)
Simone van der HofNov 19, 2024
We just published Children’s Rights and Online Age Assurance Systems, https://brill.com/view/journals/chil/32/3/article-p721_009.xml, which finds that many currenturnal... age verification methods – especially self-declaration – provide far too low a level of age assurance to ... (1/3)
Children’s Rights and Online Age Assurance Systems

Abstract Age assurance is a way to prevent children accessing content, products or services that are potentially harmful to them, ranging from gambling services or alcohol or tobacco or, increasingly, certain products and services online. Now that children’s lives are mediated by digital technologies, policymakers are deliberating over the legal, technical and practical challenges. These have been little examined from the perspective of children’s rights. By combining legal and social research methods, this article examines the legal requirements for age assurance in Europe, assesses compliance by companies and reveals the consequences for family life. In law and practice, we show that age assurance is often ineffective in protecting children from online risk of harm. Further, as currently implemented it risks children’s other rights – to non-discrimination, privacy, to be heard, and their civil rights and freedoms, and remedy. We identify promising directions for the use of age assurance in child online protection, focusing on European policy, regulators and civil society actors.

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Simone van der HofNov 14, 2024
Roel Griffioen - #antifaNov 14, 2024
Dat hele #kamerdebat van gisteren was volkomen overbodig. Er had maar 1 spreker hoeven zijn: deze.
En dan hadden die mensen uit vak K beschaamd naar huis moeten lopen. Met hun coalitiepartijen en medeplichtigen zoals (b.v.) JA21 en SGP erachteraan.
Simone van der HofDec 25, 2023
Hello again from richardwrites672. Turns out there's 100 more people affected, in a different database table. Please remove your #mastochist app permission. Merry christmas.
Simone van der HofJun 25, 2023
Show threadBen WaberJun 25, 2023
First was a packed panel on improving #privacy for the long term at @CPDPconferences with @hanlin, Jhalak Kakkar, @PaulNemitz, and @carmelatroncoso. I liked how this panel took a step back from focusing too much on the current hot topics and thought more about the broad classes of harms and opportunities that privacy protections should aim to reduce/support. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DrJ8hcwKE8 (2/6)
HOW TO MAKE PRIVACY MORE USER-FRIENDLY FOR THE LONG-TERM

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Simone van der HofJun 25, 2023
Show threadBen WaberJun 25, 2023
Last was an excellent panel on the notion of vulnerability in #DataProtection and #privacy #law at the @CPDPconferences with @Joix, Fanny Coudert, @GcMalgieri, Mariana Marques Rielli, and Malavika Raghavan. This is a wide-ranging examination of the notion of vulnerability, the best ways to address it, its dynamic nature, and how effective current regulation is at mitigating harms to particularly vulnerable groups. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M__MSzf6xEk (6/6)
VULNERABLE WHO? VULNERABLE WHEN? VULNERABLE TO WHAT?

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Simone van der HofMar 24, 2023
Carl T. BergstromMar 24, 2023

"Man, f$ck [redacted] Airlines, their wifi is so goddamn slow I paid [ten minutes' salary] for this sh!t and it takes me 5 seconds to buffer [a video of a cat riding a chicken]."

/sitting in a metal tube going 1000 kmph, 12,000m above the earth's surface, connected on a device half the size of a deck of cards to a vast network of information infrastructure incorporating over half of humanity.

Simone van der HofMar 8, 2023

France’s parliament votes on law to protect childrens’ images online

https://www.thelocal.fr/20230307/frances-parliament-votes-on-law-to-protect-childrens-images-online/

#childrights #privacy #children

France's parliament votes on law to protect childrens' images online

French MPs have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a new bill that would provide a stronger 'right to privacy' for children, introducing more stringent rules for parents who share images of their children online.

The Local