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In a major move to secure Europe’s digital future, four leading-edge research initiatives funded by the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) – AIXPERT, ROBUSTIFAI, TRUMAN, and TURING – have officially joined forces to form a strategic innovation cluster. Backed by a combined EU investment of around €28.8 million under the Horizon Europe programme,…

Speaking about “Trustworthy AI protection goals – Requirements and Tradeoffs” at the SPRINT Workshop on AI Security and Privacy in Valencia, Spain, Prof. Simone Fischer-Hübner from Karlstad University once again showed how challenging it is to align the different protection goals in the AI landscape, and how closely tangled the trade-offs between robustness, human-in-the-loop, trustworthiness,…

Gathering in the beautiful city of Karlstad, Sweden, the TRUMAN project consortium held their second general project meeting on Feb 25-26 at Karlstad University. Intense debates on work packages, use cases, trustworthiness of AI technologies, human-in-the-loop, robustness attacks and countermeasures, machine learning models, knowledge graphs, and general project logistics have been accompanied with social activities…

Co-organized by TRUMAN partner Karlstad University, the IEEE International Workshop on Privacy Engineering is the premier forum to discuss the alignment of regulatory requirements with real-world tech/AI implementations. Hence, this year in its 12th edition, the IWPE workshop is focused on the emerging legislation around AI and data protection, such as the Digital Omnibus currently…

On Jan 15-16, 2026, NTNU organized the Security Divas 2026 conference, providing a platform for women in cybersecurity to network and discuss. This year’s edition was held at Quality Strand Hotel Gjøvik in Norway, and featured a full program of presentations and panels on different aspects of cybersecurity in Norway and beyond. In this event,…

During the Annual Privacy Forum 2025 in Frankfurt, Prof. Meiko Jensen from TRUMAN partner KAU gave an interview to the German radio station “Deutschlandfunk“, talking about the issues of digital sovereignty and data protection in US clouds in the era of artificial intelligence. He highlighted the current hunger for training data at bigtech companies, and…

Co-organized by Dr. Farzaneh Karegar from TRUMAN partner Karlstad University, the 2026 of the ACM CHI conference will feature a workshop dedicated to the changes AI induces into the current data protection world: “Moving Beyond Clicks: Rethinking Consent and User Control in the Age of AI” will bring together experts from AI, HCI, design, privacy,…

Today, The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) organized a stakeholder event on Anonymization and Pseudonymization, looking for inputs and advise on how to adapt their guidelines to the recent developments in the European legislation (e.g. based on the EDPS vs. SRB court case). Represented by Prof. Meiko Jensen from the PriSec Group at Karlstad University,…

The TRUMAN project website needed a haul-over, which TRUMAN project partner Karlstad University now coordinated!

On November 23, 2025, Swedish radio station Sveriges Radio aired an interview with Prof. Simone Fischer-Hübner from Karlstad University on the TRUMAN project and its mission. The podcast can be listened to (in Swedish) here: https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/sa-ska-karlstads-universitet-gora-ai-mer-saker

On November 20, 2025, TRUMAN member Meiko Jensen from Karlstad University spoke about data subject rights in relation to ML models at the Swedish IT-Rättsforum in Stockholm.

Meeting at partner ULD in Kiel, Germany, on November 14, 2025, the TRUMAN project members ULD and KAU organized a joint workshop where they discussed in depth the different conditions of data subject rights in the scope of artificial intelligence and machine learning models. The target was to lay down a roadmap for future ways…