Dr Bo Zhao LLM

Bio

As a Chinese legal scholar trained in the Netherlands, Dr. Bo Zhao is a Senior Research Fellow working at Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT), Tilburg University School of Law, the Netherlands. Before his joining TILT in Oct. 2017, he worked as a Senior Research Fellow on various EU research projects at the STeP Research Group (Security, Technology and e-Privacy) at the Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.  He was a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Carely Law School (USA) in 2012.  His research covers comparative data privacy protection law, in particular cross-border data protection, law and technology, cybersecurity, defamation law, data protection law and policy issues in China.

Teaching

Course coordinator and lecturer ( Data Science: sustainability, privacy and security)

https://catalogus.tilburguniversity.edu/osiris_student_tiuprd/Onderwijs…

Courses

• Data science: sustainability, privacy and security

Recent publications

1. Mapping the development of China’s data protection law - Major actors…

   Zhao, B., & Feng, Y. (2021). Mapping the development of China’s data protection law: Major actors, core values, and shifting power relations. Computer Law and Security Review, 40(1), 1-16. [105498].

2. Op het eerste gezicht - Een verkenning van gezichtsherkenning en priv…

   Keymolen, E., Noorman, M., van der Sloot, B., Koops, B-J., Cuijpers, C., & Zhao, B. (2020). Op het eerste gezicht: Een verkenning van gezichtsherkenning en privacyrisico’s in horizontale relaties. WODC / Ministerie van Justitie. https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/binaries/rijksoverheid/documenten/rapporten/2020/04/20/tk-bijlage-wodc-rapport-op-het-eerste-gezicht/tk-bijlage-wodc-rapport-op-het-eerste-gezicht.pdf

3. Unraveling home protection in the IoT age - Smart living, mixed reali…

   Zhao, B. (2020). Unraveling home protection in the IoT age: Smart living, mixed reality, and home 2.0. The Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, 21(1), 1-38. https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/stlr/article/view/5763/2823

4. Connected cars in China - Technology, data protection and regulatory …

   Zhao, B. (2019). Connected cars in China: Technology, data protection and regulatory responses. In G. Hornung, & A. Roßnagel (Eds.), Grundrechtsschutz im Smart Car Kommunikation, Sicherheit und Datenschutz im vernetzten Fahrzeug (pp. 417-438). Springer/Link.

5. Data protection as a fundamental right - The European General Data Pr…

   Zhao, B., & Chen, W. (2019). Data protection as a fundamental right: The European General Data Protection Regulation and its extraterritorial application in China. US-China Law Review, 16(3), 97-113.