C4DT collaborators Katherine Loh and Imad Aad trace Switzerland's turbulent path toward a national digital identity system, drawing lessons for countries navigating the intersection of technology, trust, and democracy.

The next internship session for EPFL Master's students is now open! We are seeking new internship opportunities within your company. Start submitting now and preferably by October 2026 (by mid-September for students in Computer Science and in Communication Systems).

"L'IA hors de contrôle: quand est-ce qu'on se réveille?" Robert West, professeur affilié au C4DT, s'exprime dans l'émission Infrarouge à propos des dérives de l'IA.

"C'est quoi le problème avec les lunettes connectées?" Notre collègue Suzanne Vergnolle, responsable Gouvernance et Politiques Publiques au sein du C4DT, s'exprime dans le podcast RTS "Point J".

Late August, SDSC opens its next National Call for spring 2027 collaborative projects, enabling impactful collaborations & fair in-kind resource allocation. Opening Webinar: August 26.

Researchers from the EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences have developed a new way to keep collaborative online documents end-to-end encrypted without compromising their usability. On August 12, 2026, the work was honored with the Internet Defense Prize at the USENIX Security Symposium.

Il y a un an, le streamer Jean Pormanove mourait en direct sur la plateforme Kick, après avoir subi pendant deux ans violences et humiliations filmées de la part de deux autres streamers, Naruto et Safine. Ces derniers viennent d'être condamnés à Nice — deux ans avec sursis pour l'un,…

To promote research and education in cyber-defence, the EPFL and the Cyber-Defence Campus have jointly launched the “CYD Fellowships – A Talent Program for Cyber-Defence Research. ”The 14th call for applications is now open with a deadline of 19 August 2026 for Doctoral and Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship applications.

MeditronFO is the first fully open framework for building medical large language models, to make AI in healthcare more transparent and accountable. esearchers from EPFL’s Laboratory for Intelligent Global Health & Humanitarian Response Technologies (LiGHT) in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences have released MeditronFO (Fully Open), a framework…

Our new Focus is out! Faster, cheaper and more convincing than before, content is increasingly machine-made. How are researchers and civil society working to keep information trustworthy? Here are some points to consider and food for thought.

Quelles sont les menaces les plus dangereuses qui ciblent l’économie suisse? Comment les prévenir? Et comment bien former son personnel face à ces attaques? Suivez le débat modéré par Anouch Seydtaghia, avecGiuseppe Bianco, Head Cash Management chez UBS et Olivier Crochat, directeur exécutif du Center for Digital Trust de l’EPFL.

With AI, the voice has acquired a new significance. Behind the words lies data that can be used both to diagnose a health problem and to steal someone’s identity. An update with Andrea Cavallaro, professor and head of the Multimedia and Intelligent Sensing Laboratory, affiliated with C4DT, at EPFL

At the opening of the IEEE/ACM DATE Conference, Prof. David Atienza was awarded the IEEE CEDA 2026 Distinguished Service Award.

Following a competitive recommendation and peer-review process, EPFL professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering David Atienza has been elected to the prestigious Pan-European Academy of Humanities Letters and Sciences.

In “On Privacy and Technology”, Prof. Solove distils years of rigorous academic research into an accessible analysis that cuts through the noise surrounding privacy debates with surgical precision. What makes this work particularly compelling is Solove’s unflinching exposure of uncomfortable truths: the consent model is fundamentally flawed, self-regulation has failed…

Choudary, Sangeet Paul (2025) Reshuffle: Who wins when AI restacks the knowledge economy (ISBN-13: ‎979-8294127213), Independently published, 460 pages. By Olivier Crochat “AI’s value lies less in automating tasks and more in enabling new coordination and decision-making architectures.” In his book Reshuffle, Choudary offers a compelling framework for leaders to…

Les systèmes de paiement en Suisse et en Europe sont largement contrôlés par les Etats-Unis. De récentes sanctions américaines contre des juges de la CPI ont mis en lumière ce quasi monopole. Le point sur les risques avec Jean-Pierre Hubaux, directeur académique de C4DT.

Generative AI models not only replicate but amplify human biases. Though efforts exist to correct these discriminatory biases, they remain hard to identify as they're often implicit. Anna Sotnikova, a postdoctoral researcher at Bob West's NLP Lab, affiliated with C4DT, provides an update.

AI is making its way into every aspect of our lives, but how ready are we to adopt it, and under what conditions? A report by the EPFL AI Center, in collaboration with the UNIGE, presents both the perceptions of a sample of French-speaking population of Switzerland and the recommendations…

Les attaques de phishing, de plus en plus ciblées et difficiles à détecter, touchent PME, institutions et particuliers ; pour y répondre la HEIG‑VD a lancé le projet « Combattre le Phishing – quelles innovations apporter » en partenariat avec le Center for Digital Trust (C4DT) de l’EPFL, l’UNIL, la…

How do our institutions and the trust they are built on evolve in a digital world? Interview of Imad Aad, project manager at the Center for Digital Trust (C4DT) at EPFL.

De plus en plus d’entreprises locales montent au créneau pour exiger que les autorités prennent des décisions permettant de réduire leur dépendance à des acteurs étrangers en matière de technologie. Une pression qui se traduit par des procédures juridiques. Avec la participation de Jean-Pierre Hubaux, directeur académique du C4DT.

Professeur à l’EPFL, où il codirige le AI Center et affilié au C4DT, Marcel Salathé vient de publier l’ouvrage «IA. Comment ne pas perdre le nord?». Il fait part de son optimisme et de ses pistes pour tendre vers une certaine forme de souveraineté numérique.

Votation sur l'identité électronique, interview de Linus Gasser du C4DT sur la RSI.