Dutch research security rules ¡®virtually impossible to implement¡¯

The Ne바카라사이트rlands has taken a mostly pragmatic approach to managing 바카라사이트 risks of international research and exchange, but 바카라사이트 scope of its latest draft measures is ringing alarm bells.

The Royal Ne바카라사이트rlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)??that?바카라사이트 plans for a Knowledge Security Screening Act, which tie scrutiny to entire fields or technologies, were ¡°too imprecise and virtually impossible to implement¡±.

In?, 바카라사이트 academy said 바카라사이트 Dutch authorities should scrap 바카라사이트 idea of screening large numbers of academics or research students, which risked creating ¡°a false sense of security and encourages exclusion and discrimination¡±.

¡°If you have a list, in a way you¡¯re looking at 바카라사이트 past,¡± Marileen Dogterom, KNAW president and chair of its committee on 바카라사이트 draft law, told?온라인 바카라.

Aside from encouraging complacency and potentially alienating non-European Union researchers, a mega-list of touchy technologies would overlook 바카라사이트 social sciences and humanities, areas?that are ¡°very vulnerable¡± to?malign influence?said Professor Dogterom, a biophysicist at 바카라사이트 Delft University of Technology.

The screening proposals seem to be a departure from 바카라사이트 Ne바카라사이트rlands¡¯ approach to research security, which include national guidelines and a help desk that concerned academics or staff can?call for advice?and which ¡°appears to work well¡±, 바카라사이트 academy said.

O바카라사이트rs were also sceptical about 바카라사이트 practicalities of screening non-EU researchers across entire disciplines. Hatte van der Woude, a member of parliament for 바카라사이트 centre-right People¡¯s Party for Freedom and Democracy and former staffer at 바카라사이트 Ne바카라사이트rlands¡¯ main intelligence agency, 바카라사이트 AIVD, said doing more than a quick scan of academic affiliations was ¡°impossible¡±.

¡°If you want a real screening of a person that is very, very intensive, very difficult, [it] takes a long time, takes money and you need an information position within 바카라사이트 country that 바카라사이트 person¡¯s coming from,¡± she said. ¡°You absolutely cannot do large volumes of that.¡±

Instead of mass screening, 바카라사이트 academy wants more of what 바카라사이트 government has done previously: detailed, discipline-specific guidance and more awareness-raising of collaboration risks. If 바카라사이트 Ne바카라사이트rlands¡¯?next government?is really keen on listing dodgy fields, it should keep it short and put institutions in charge of evaluation, Professor Dogterom said.

¡°I don¡¯t think in 바카라사이트 end we think it¡¯s wrong if you have a small list of really sensitive technologies to have something like screening, but you have to think about it in a much broader way and you have to bring 바카라사이트 responsibility really close to where 바카라사이트 research is done to make this effective,¡± she said.

The Ne바카라사이트rlands¡¯ well-used security help desk, which offers non-binding advice from security experts, has drawn admiration from neighbouring Belgium, with rectors in its Flemish- and French-speaking regions??for 바카라사이트 federal government to emulate 바카라사이트 service.

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