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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…

On October 21-23 TRUMAN co-organized the Annual Privacy Forum (APF2025) in Frankfurt, Germany. Represented by Prof. Meiko Jensen, TRUMAN organized a panel on “Digital Sovereignty” with Prof. Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Prof. Ina Schiering, Dr. Robert Riemann, and Dr. h.c. Marit Hansen.

The DiversityOne Open Challenge was co-organized by our University of Trento team (Andrea Bontempelli, Matteo Busso and Fausto Giunchiglia) together with Lakmal Meegahapola, Amalia de Götzen and Daniel Gatica-Perez, as part of the Ubicomp-ISWC Conference in October. Two TRUMAN fellows delivered keynote speeches for the challenge, showcasing our consortium’s expertise in data privacy and large-scale…

🧠 How can we help the machine to help us? At the recent IWOAR 2025 workshop in September, Dr. Andrea Bontempelli of the TRUMAN project (University of Trento) tackled this question. Presenting the paper “Help the machine to help you: an evaluation in the wild of egocentric data cleaning via skeptical learning,” the team (including…

Schloss Dagstuhl, the famous German hosting facility for dedicated high-quality research seminars on topics around computer science, hosted a seminar on “Building Privacy-Preserving Technologies of Societal Impact” on July 27 – August 1, 2025. Including a large group of experts from all around the world, multiple topics around Multi-Party Computation schemes and applications, as well…