The Privacy Symposium in Venice is one of the most prominent events of the year when it comes to privacy and data protection topics. Attracting a high-profile audience from a really global community, issues of data protection law and its implementation in technical systems is debated among politicians, data protection authorities, academia, industry, and broader society – all of that in the beautiful scenery of the iconic city of Venice in Italy.
As in previous years, TRUMAN partner Karlstad University supported the organization of the scientific track of this esteemed symposium, where papers from academia undergo a rigorous scientific peer review, and accepted papers are then presented as part of the symposium on site. This year, the scientific track had an exceptionally high level of participation, with 57 submissions being sent in, out of which 13 papers have been accepted and presented on site(22% acceptance rate).
A special focus of this year’s edition was on the interplay of privacy laws and artificial intelligence evolutions, e.g. discussing the proposed AI regulatory sandboxes and their status in terms of data protection. Here, the TRUMAN topics of AI trustworthiness and privacy attack resilience promise innovative solutions that could be subject to AI regulation, hence would make excellent candidates for such regulatory sandboxes.
In a joint effort with Europrivacy and the european privacy certification community, the TRUMAN project helped clarifying the future of AI technology under privacy and data protection laws, and contributed to the stakeholder group discussions on trustworthiness and the role of safeguards in AI-based systems.