https://belibre.be/en/authors/joop-beris/ Recent content in Joop Beris on BeLibre - Belgian independent knowledge and policy platform Hugo en Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0100 https://belibre.be/en/blog/policy/do-you-trust-me/ Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0100 https://belibre.be/en/blog/policy/do-you-trust-me/ <hr> <p>This contribution was <a href="https://www.beris.nl/do-you-trust-me/">taken from the blog of Joop Beris</a> with permission of the author.</p> <hr> <img src="https://belibre.be/images/beris_person_surveillance.webp" alt="Humanoid robot overseeing a young man" width="100%" class=" float-left"> <p>“Do you trust me?” So began a former manager of mine during the ritualised humiliation we call a performance review. It was, to put it mildly, a discomfiting inquiry from a man whose own breaches of confidence had already rendered the term meaningless between us. But the discomfort runs deeper still, for it presupposes equality in a relationship that is fundamentally hierarchical. And if you think the dynamic between employee and employer is fraught, consider the even more lopsided transaction between citizen and state, where trust is demanded of one party while being conspicuously withheld by the other.</p> https://belibre.be/map/ Mon, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Hand crafted https://belibre.be/map/ Interactive map where you can discover digital sovereignty in municipalities, schools, emergency services or other critical infrastructure in our country and beyond.