The digital revolution has largely contributed to the development of security and surveillance technologies. These technologies have either been designed specifically for security reasons or, more frequently, have been developed for other purposes but have found application in security and/or surveillance.

The development and proliferation of security and surveillance technologies has been facilitated by advances in a number of scientific fields, notably in telecommunications, information and computing, as well as location, biometrics and so on. The Internet of Things is a key example in this respect: when it comes to mobile health or surveillance and monitoring systems, connected devices enable the collection of information that needs to be protected against inappropriate or illegal use.

In addition, European R&D projects need to address the ethical, legal and social issues raised by new surveillance and security technologies. In particular, the balance between security and freedom has become a crucial legal and political debate: are the resulting infringements of privacy and other human rights compatible with our democratic societies?

The main objectives of this research area are to better understand the relationship between surveillance, security and human rights, in particular the right to privacy and data protection. Achieving these goals requires both legal and technical expertise.

On the other hand, security requirements will also help to ensure a high level of trust in electronic transactions by citizens, private entities and public authorities. To this end, users can rely on services provided by trust service providers, such as signature, timestamping, archiving or certain emerging technologies such as blockchain and smart contracts.

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• ARRCIS - RW (2020-2024). Assessment and Reinforcement of the Regulatory Compliance of an Information System (ARRCIS)
• BESOCIAL (2019-2022) - Towards a sustainable social media archiving strategy for Belgium - BELSPO-BRAIN
• BIG DATA (2015-2018) - For the Walloon Region. This Technological Innovation Partnership aims at building the first version of the Big Data service catalog (infrastructure and software) which will be made available through a Platform of Innovation (a portal open to Walloon companies both in the research and exploitation phases).
• DENiM - H2020 (2020-2024). DENiM promotes technical leadership through the integration of innovative digital technologies to support the engineering of complex and highly interconnected processes and systems that enable the creation of sustainable value chains for energy-efficient manufacturing system management.
• DIGI4FED - Digital Revolution in Belgian Federal Government: An Open Governance Ecosystem for Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Blockchain (2020-2022) -- Study for the Belgian Science Policy Office BELSPO
• EASYWAL (2010-2020). This project focuses on the legal aspect of authentic sources for public authorities.
• FLEXPUB (2015-2020) - For the Belgian Science Policy Office BELSPO. The project is focused on the development of eGovernment services and the phenomenon of digitalization of public services.
• HECTOR (2014-2018) - For the Belgian Science Policy Office BELSPO. This project aims at developing a model for the transformation, organization and curation of hybrid records in Belgian federal administrations in order to facilitate the transition to a trustful, secure and effective electronic government.
• IA and public service: a regulatory approach (2020-2021) -- Study for AdN
• INSPEX Integrated Smart Spatial Exploration System - UE-H2020 (2017-2019). The objective of INSPEX is to make obstacle detection capabilities that are currently only feasible on autonomous vehicles available as a personal portable/wearable multi-sensor, miniaturised, low power spatial exploration system.
• mHEALTH - Walloon Region (2016-2020). This project aims at designing a platform for secured demonstration in the field of eHealth.
• Open Agro - Walloon Region (2017-2021). The Open Agro project is an initiative from the Walloon region. It concerns the elaboration and development of a smart climate agriculture based on big data activities and decision-making tools by various public research institutions in the agricultural and environmental sectors.
• PROMISE II - Belgian Science Policy Office BELSPO (2017-2019). The objective of PROMISE II is to study and analyze the legal framework for preserving online information and enabling the web archiving in Belgium.
• PROTECT - European Commission (2016-2019). The goal of the project is an enhanced biometric-based person identification system that works robustly across a range of border crossing types and that has strong user-centric features.
• SEAMPAT - RW (2014-2017). This project aims at developing an electronic platform of drug reconciliation, in order to improve the continuity of medication.
• SMART 2015/0086 (2016) - European Commission. Study for the analysis of the results of the sections on data and cloud computing as part of the public consultation on the regulatory environment for platforms, online intermediaries, data and cloud computing and the collaborative economy.
• SPARTA - H2020 (2019-2022). Sparta aims at re-thinking the way cybersecurity is performed in Europe across domains and expertise, from foundations to applications.
• TeSLA: An adaptive Trust-Based Assessment System for Learning - EU-H2020 (2016-2018). The TeSLA project provides an adaptive trust e-assessment system for assuring e-assessment processes in online and blended environments.
• Towards a new recommendation on Profiling at the age of Big data and AI, Study commissioned by the Council of Europe (2019-2020)
• VIADUCT (2018-2021) - For MecaTech. This research project aims at designing, developing and validating of new products and services based on human machine multimodal interface, centred on voice and focusing on senior people for autonomous and automated vehicles.