Legislative Proposals and Technological Threats in the Netherlands

This paper focused on identifying which characteristics of a Technological trend impede the creation of legislative proposals in the Netherlands, which often is behind on technological trends and takes a significant amount of time in the Dutch legal system. We take a closer look at how these proposals are created and which requirements they should adhere to. Additionally, we explore the concept of a threat is and how to identify its characteristics and apply this to the case of DeepFake. These characteristics are then linked to proposals requirements where they might cause a bottleneck, after which these hypotheses were validated through an interview with an expert. Results show that privacy and adaptability are no issue, whereas the government’s knowledge, ease-of-use of the technology and international boundaries are problematic characteristics in creating legislation. At the end limitations of the paper are discussed and future research directions suggested.