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Bart Jacobs is a professor of computer security, privacy & identity
at uu77 Nijmegen, The Netherlands. His work covers both
theoretical computer science and more practical, interdisciplinary
work, esp. in computer security and privacy, intelligence, law and
ethics. Jacobs is a member of the Academia Europaea and of the Royal
Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), and a recipient of an
ERC Advanced Grant. He is an active participant in societal debates
about security and privacy, in the media and in various advice roles
e.g. for government and parliament. He is the initiator of the
privacy-friendly identity wallet app Yivi and of the social platform
PubHubs based on public values. Jacobs is co-founder of Nijmegen's
interdisciplinary iHub on digitalisation and society. In 2021 he
received the Stevin prize.