About us
Elly
Paul
Nelleke
Hannah
Irma
mr. Irma Smeding
Senior consultant privacy- & gezondheidsrecht
Nienke
Leandra
Jantien
Tijn
Oussama
Famke
Our strength
Lex Digitalis is a specialized agency, operating at the intersection of law and IT. With a team of in-house privacy consultants and a large network of privacy specialists, we offer organizations advice on strategic and tactical privacy issues. In addition, we help organizations fill permanent positions within the privacy specialty.
Having a lasting relationship and maintaining high quality in what we do are two of our core values. We offer both in everything we do, because these values come naturally to us. We treat others as we would like to be treated ourselves: with a personal touch, transparancy and with the aim tostrive for the highest achievable result together. Through our personal and clear approach, we make an authentic connection, as well as ensuring a clear and smart process. Our extensive knowledge and focus within the niche of privacy allows us to value expertise. Our experience enables us to provide indepth advice to both the privacy professional and the client.
As our client, this means that we are able to find specialized professionals on the cutting edge of law, ICT and privacy for temporary support, permanent employment or advice. This could include positions such as Data Protection Officer, Privacy legal counsel, Company legal counsel, Security Officer, IT legal counsel. Our Projects pages shares some examples of projects already carried out. Vacancies shows the roles we are currently recruiting. If you’re already active in the privacy field, be sure to read more about the unique issues that exist within our specialism, as it offers a diversity of assignments for you as a professional.
We try to contribute to a world in which organizations are able to use personal data in an extensive – but responsible – manner.
Interested in what we have to offer you? We’d love to get in touch with you!
Our brand
Lex Digitalis is the Latin translation of Lessig’s “Code is law.” This is the short name by which two books by Lawrence Lessig are generally known. Lawrence Lessig’s first book is “Code and other laws of cyberspace” from 1999 and the second book is the 2006 update “Code: Version 2.0.” Lessig is a professor at Harvard Law School. Lessig argues that software is as regulatory as laws and regulations. In American English, “code” can mean both “law” and “computer program.” He therefore makes comparisons between “West Coast Code” (the laws of Silicon Valley) and “East Coast Code” (the laws of the federal government in Washington DC). Lessig places very strong emphasis on the implications of the rise of cyberspace for copyright protection. He is also one of the founders of Creative Commons: a licensing model often used for open source software, including in the Netherlands and within the Dutch government.
The logo was once conceived in response to Emily Laidlaw’s “Regulating speech in cyberspace” from 2015, about platforms such as Facebook, Google and Netflix which, as heavyweights on the Internet, form a regulatory body, for example where free speech is concerned, alongside and partly replacing the old institutions. Emily Laidlaw thus builds on Lessig’s work.
Lessig still assumed that everyone on the Internet is a “pathetic little dot” regulated by both West Coast Code (Silicon Valley) and East Coast Code (laws and regulations) – in addition to market forces and socially and culturally determined norms of behavior. Viewed this way, we are all just “pathetic little dots.” But Laidlaw makes distinctions. There are a number of major nodes on the Internet with a lot of appeal, platforms that regulate and also act as gatekeepers (gatekeepers) for certain content and expressions on the Internet. This is reflected in the logo. There are large defining dots and there are smaller ones. They are connected and form a network. The logo represents the interplay, in which we all have a role.