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  • Securing Europe’s Digital Future: Four Leading Research Initiatives Join Forces for Trustworthy AI

    Securing Europe’s Digital Future: Four Leading Research Initiatives Join Forces for Trustworthy AI

    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,…

  • “Protection Goals of AI” – Invited Talk at SPRINT Workshop

    “Protection Goals of AI” – Invited Talk at SPRINT Workshop

    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,…

  • Project Meeting in Karlstad

    Project Meeting in Karlstad

    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…

  • IEEE Workshop on Privacy Engineering 2026

    IEEE Workshop on Privacy Engineering 2026

    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…

  • Panel@Security Divas 2026

    Panel@Security Divas 2026

    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,…

  • TRUMAN on German radio

    TRUMAN on German radio

    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…

  • TRUMAN Workshop: Moving Beyond Clicks: Rethinking Consent and User Control in the Age of AI

    TRUMAN Workshop: Moving Beyond Clicks: Rethinking Consent and User Control in the Age of AI

    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,…

  • Karlstad University provides input to EDPB guidelines on ML and anonymization

    Karlstad University provides input to EDPB guidelines on ML and anonymization

    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,…

  • Website revamped!

    Website revamped!

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