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Yung Shin Van Der SypePh.D.

Counsel | Ph.D.

Overview

Widely respected for her pragmatic and creative approach to solving business disputes, Yung Shin Van Der Sype focuses on IT law, including privacy and data protection and IT contracts and cybersecurity, particularly related to HR matters. Yung Shin advises national and international clients from different sectors, ranging from social media to esports. She has more than 10 years’ experience providing services across the spectrum of IT law and has built an impressive reputation in this area.

Yung Shin defended her doctoral thesis, “Towards an Integrated Privacy Protection in the Company,” at Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven). She will partially continue her academic activities as a senior affiliate researcher at KU Leuven’s Centre for IT and IP Law. Yung Shin is a frequent public speaker and the author of several books and articles on privacy and data protection.

Yung Shin is a counsel in Crowell & Moring’s Brussels office and a member of the firm’s Privacy and Cybersecurity and IP groups. She is on the editorial board of the legal journal Privacy and Information and a board member of the Association for Social Law. Yung Shin is an editor of the Privacy and Technology Law Series of the International Encyclopaedia of Laws. She is the Belgian integrity commissioner for esports appointed by the Belgian Esports Federation and is an active member of various national and international associations.

Career & Education

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    • Catholic University of Leuven, J.D., cum laude, 2012
    • Catholic University of Leuven, Ph.D., 2017
    • Catholic University of Leuven, J.D., cum laude, 2012
    • Catholic University of Leuven, Ph.D., 2017
    • Belgium
    • Belgium
    • Dutch
    • English
    • French
    • Dutch
    • English
    • French

Yung Shin's Insights

Event | 03.27.24

Hallucinating Deepfakes and Their Human Friends: Life, Love and Law in times of Generative AI

This is an invite-only client event.

Would you replace a human news anchor by synthetic animation? Would you use AI-generated music for a commercial, for a documentary or for a feature film? Would you have an AI tool write a first draft of an article or, inversely, edit and correct human copy? Would you have an AI make the first selection of among hundreds of scenarios? Or would you trust it to pick the ingredients for a hit series? Would you let an AI make trailers and thumbnails of a new series for the socials? Would you have your subscribers chat to an AI to process their complaints?

Recognition

Admitted to practice: Belgium

Yung Shin's Insights

Event | 03.27.24

Hallucinating Deepfakes and Their Human Friends: Life, Love and Law in times of Generative AI

This is an invite-only client event.

Would you replace a human news anchor by synthetic animation? Would you use AI-generated music for a commercial, for a documentary or for a feature film? Would you have an AI tool write a first draft of an article or, inversely, edit and correct human copy? Would you have an AI make the first selection of among hundreds of scenarios? Or would you trust it to pick the ingredients for a hit series? Would you let an AI make trailers and thumbnails of a new series for the socials? Would you have your subscribers chat to an AI to process their complaints?

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Yung Shin's Insights

Event | 03.27.24

Hallucinating Deepfakes and Their Human Friends: Life, Love and Law in times of Generative AI

This is an invite-only client event.

Would you replace a human news anchor by synthetic animation? Would you use AI-generated music for a commercial, for a documentary or for a feature film? Would you have an AI tool write a first draft of an article or, inversely, edit and correct human copy? Would you have an AI make the first selection of among hundreds of scenarios? Or would you trust it to pick the ingredients for a hit series? Would you let an AI make trailers and thumbnails of a new series for the socials? Would you have your subscribers chat to an AI to process their complaints?