Hideyuki Matsumi

Hideyuki Matsumi, also known as Yuki, is a PhD researcher/candidate at the Research Group on Law Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He is also a member of the New York Bar.

His research focuses on issues at the intersection of law and data/information, specifically problems related to privacy, predictive analytics, and algorithms. In essence, his research concerns how people are made vulnerable to automated decisions in a way that risks their autonomy and overall societal goals.

At the narrowest level, he is currently focusing on a pair of issues: (1) predictions or the temporal dimension of privacy, and (2) generated personal data.

At a higher level, he is passionate about law and policy issues related to information privacy, information security, information accessibility, free and open-source software (FOSS & GNU/Linux), intellectual property, cybercrime, robotics and AI, abuse, violence, and exploitation (including those of a sexual nature) in the digital age, and genetic information. Recently, he has also become interested in issues related to data brokers and international data transfer.

He holds an LLM in Intellectual Property Law from the George Washington University Law School, an LLM with a Law and Technology (IP) Certificate from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, and an LLM in International and European Law with a specialization in Data Law from VUB/IES (with Great Distinction).

Before joining LSTS, he worked in both the business and academic sectors. He began his career as a web application programmer and then as a consultant specializing in information security. He has held positions at the University of Tokyo and Toin University of Yokohama in Japan. He is currently a Project Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University.