About Bendert
Bendert is a lawyer and has worked on legal, political and policy aspects of the information society for several years. Most recently he was a policy advisor to an MEP in the European Parliament, working on Europe’s Digital Agenda. Previously Bendert worked as an ICT lawyer and policy consultant in the Netherlands.
Bendert holds a degree in law, specialising in Information Law. He is currently also a researcher at Oxford University, specialising in topics such as internet governance, copyright, virtual communities, privacy and related information society and policy issues. He is often in Brussels to keep pace with the policy developments.
Publications
Recent blogs by Bendert
Addressing limitations of AI systems in criminal justice
Criminal justice reform group typically do to have the technical capacity or resources to understand the newly-proposed AI systems and thus see them as…
Where is the US AI policy?
It’s alarming to see the US Government taking a hands-off and behind-the-scenes approach to the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
Marrying Ethics and Human Rights for AI Scrutiny
So, while the human rights framework and the ethics discipline use several of the same starting points (e.g. values such as dignity, privacy, autonomy,…
UK seeks Ethics in AI — But Europe may deliver
It’s exciting that a group of European scientists and governments have now proposed ELLIS (“European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems”), an ambitious…
