Presentations

• (2024) 'Three stories of how AI watches you at work: regulatory challenges between privacy and labour rights', at Exploring the intersection between AI and Society, 12 April 2024, Royal College of Spain, Bologna, Italy;

• (2024) ‘Minimised work surveillance exists under the GDPR: Amazon France and the DPA sanction’, at AI@Work and Future of Technology and Society Discussion Group, 7 March 2024, University of Oxford, UK;

• (2024) '1.25 seconds, 10 minutes: work surveillance in Amazon. Reading the French Data Protection Authority Sanction' at Panoptiwork Talk n. 7/STeP talk n. 2: “Regulating New Surveillance Technologies at Work: A Human Computer Interaction Approach”, 19 February 2024, University of Groningen, the Netherlands;

• (2023) ‘Driving surveillance: on driver monitoring systems and workers’ privacy’ with Nynke Vellinga, at Cyberspace conference 2023, 25 November 2023, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic;

• (2023) 'Three Stories of How I Watch You at Work', at Panoptiwork talks n. 2, 19 October 2023, University of Groningen, the Netherlands;

• (2023) 'On a Deceptive Intersection. Data Subjects’ Rights and Labour Protection LLRN6' at Labour Law Research Network 6th Conference, 27 June 2023, University of Warsaw and Lodz, Poland;

• (2023) 'Lost in translation: is data protection labour law protection?' at Privacy@Work conference 2023, 30 May 2023, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel;

• (2023) 'Workplace Surveillance and Living Labs: Data Protection meets Human Computer Interaction Design' with Wessel Damen e Ida Damen, at Future of work: working with and through digital technology Conference, 14 February 2023, European Trade Union Institute, Brussels, Belgium);

• (2022) 'Through the bumpy road: Delivering the Pillar' at 5 years European Pillar of Social Rights: ‘International Levenbach-day, 9 December 2022, University of Groningen, the Netherlands;

• (2022) 'Future workplaces grow up in labs? Workplace surveillance and workers' data protection in 'Living Labs' Office Settings' at Brown Bag Lunch Seminar, 10 November 2022, European Trade Union Institute, Brussels, Belgium;

• (2022) 'Explainability and Understanding of Workplace Surveillance' at 19th Marco Biagi Conference, 27 May 2022, University of Modena-Reggio Emilia and Fondazione Marco Biagi, Modena, Italy;

• (2022) 'Workplaces as Databases: workers' protection between the GDPR and the proposed AI regulation' at the European Labour Law course (Prof. F. Marinelli), 6 May 2022, University of Milan, Milan, Italy;

• (2022) 'Welcome to the era of the 'datafied' workplace: risks and opportunities of the new surveillance through AI and IoT, at CyberTalk Minilecture Series (STeP research group and Cybersecurity Noord Nederland), 18 January 2022, University of Groningen, the Netherlands;

• (2021) 'Dall’art. 4 dello Statuto dei Lavoratori al pericolo di una connessione ininterrotta; tra rischi di tecnostress e diritto alla disconnessione; il mutamento di mansioni e il lavoro straordinario'  at Ordine degli Avvocati di Nuoro, 3 December 2021, with avv. Antonino Francesco Della Sciucca, Nuoro, Italia;

• (2021) 'From artificial lighting to artificial intelligence at work: past, present and future of groundbreaking surveillance technologies and fundamental rights' , at Future of work, future of regulation seminar series, 14 July 2021, University of Bristol, United Kingdom;

• (2021) 'Employees' surveillance in 'datafied' workplaces: towards a reconciliation of employees’ fundamental rights and employers’ business interests' at YES! Seminar, 1 July 2021, University of Lodz, Poland.

Seminars organised

• With the panoptiwork project (see projects), I organised in 2023/2024 a seminar series on labour and digitalisation, with speakers from the University of Groningen and external guests:

  • • Talk 1, 20 September 2023: Decolonising Labour Law in the Data Driven Economy (dr. Flavia Maximo, University of Ouro Preto, Brasil);

    • Talk 2, 19 October 2023: Three stories of how I watch you at work (Michele Molè, University of Groningen, the Netherlands);

    • Talk 3, 20 November 2023: How AI Fosters Global Inequalities: a Four Country Study on Data Work, Keynote lecture prof. Antonio A. Casilli (Institute Polytechnique de Paris) and panel discussion with: Michele Molè (moderator), Beryl ter Haar, Tatiana Llaguno Nieves, Wike Been, Seonok Lee, Femke Cnossen, George Azzopardi (recording available here: https://www.youtube.com/live/L01d8u97iE4?si=56A9KxhSoXHjTXGe);

    • Talk 4, 6 December 2023: Industry 4.0 + Industry 5.0: a happy marriage between human and technology (prof. Beryl ter Haar, University of Warsaw, Poland);

    • Talk 5, 10 January 2024: Gig workers in the platform metropolis: delivery workers in the Netherlands and South Korea (Dr. Seonok Lee, University of Groningen, the Netherlands);

    • Talk 6, 19 February 2024, Regulating New Surveillance Technolgies at Work: A Human Computer Interaction Approach, (Dr Sandy JJ Gould, University of Cardiff, UK);

    • Talk 7, 21 March 2024, AI is not a technology: The history of technological rhetoric and labor degradation, (Dr Jason Resnikoff, University of Groningen, the Netherlands);

    • Talk 8, 22 April 2024, The work of Kpop idols on fan platforms: a labour process analysis, (Sanghwa Lee and Dr Robert Prey, University of Groningen, the Netherlands).

• Panoptiwork held also public research meetings:

  • • 24 May 2023: Generative AI Language Models and Academic Labour, House of Connections, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

    • 25 January 2023: 7 Facets in Labour and Digitalisation, Harmoniecomplex, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.