Thinking must never submit itself,
neither to a dogma, 
nor to a party, 
nor to a passion, 
nor to an interest, 
nor to a preconceived idea, 
nor to anything whatsoever, 
except to the facts themselves, 
because for it to submit to anything else would be the end of its existence.
- Henri Poincaré, 1909 -
 
“It is a typical Enlightenment quote that I like to identify myself with”, says Paul De Hert. “I interpret it as a call to intellectual action to reveal various truths. One often hears: children have no privacy. Who says that? Why is it said? The university has a duty to check - from a multidisciplinary angle (psychological, economical, judicial…) - to what extent such statements are true or not.”
 
Paul De Hert
 
Among others professor Paul De Hert teaches Criminal law and International and European Criminal law at VUB. His research focuses on the domains of privacy and technology, human rights and criminal law. Professor De Hert also is the organiser of the world’s largest conference on digital security: Computers, Privacy & Data Protection (CPDP).