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Find out about the impact that the UC Berkeley Center for Long-term Cybersecurity (CLTC) has made since it launched ten years ago.

MIT’s Future of Data Initiative is supporting the development of better traceability schemes that will help consumers track how their data is being used and shared. Check it out!

The Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center (ICRC) at Tel Aviv University is hosting its 15th annual Cyber Week Conference from June 23-26, 2025. Find out more here.

The latest edition of Trust Matters, IITB’s newsletter on all things digital trust, is out. Check it out here.

The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University hosts a weekly cyber security, privacy, resiliency or autonomy speaker, highlighting technical discovery or case studies or exploring cyber operational approaches. Check out their extensive repository of talks here!

Carnegie Mellon University Africa, through its Upanzi Network initiative, has launched the Digital Experience Centre (DEC). The DEC serves as a hub for exploring and testing digital public infrastructure, digital public goods, cybersecurity, public health, agriculture and more. It demonstrates how key digital solutions—such as digital identity, digital payments and…

A team featuring CyLab researchers was honored with the Test of Time Award at the 2025 Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC 2025). The research team, featuring Patrick Gage Kelley (Ph.D.’12), CyLab alumnus; CyLab director Lorrie Cranor; and Norman Sadeh, co-director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Privacy Engineering Program.

Check out BKC’s recap of 2024 and roadmap for 2025 here.

We’re eagerly gearing up for the third annual Summit of Centers this August 2025! This year’s spotlight is on collaborations with industry and private foundations. Stay tuned for announcements of our external guests!

C4DT held the second edition of the summit on August 28-30, 2024. Sixteen globally renowned centers for digital trust gathered in Glion (above Montreux), Switzerland to mutually discuss their respective missions, operations, and challenges. The Glion Summit continued in its aim of establishing a space in which academic centers for…

Inspired by the panel session at this year’s “AI House” panel session on “Transparency in Artificial Intelligence”, this write up very informally summarizes Imad Aad's thoughts about transparency and trust in AI. It is aimed at readers with all backgrounds, including those who had little or no exposure to AI…

We are pleased to announce that the Center for Digital Trust has joined The World Bank’s GovTech Global Partnership program! This partnership will facilitate the integration of hashtag#academic insights to improve the effectiveness of public sector operations through technological applications, significantly enhancing the quality and efficiency of public services.

Thomas, Pradip Ninan (2023). Platform Regulation. Exemplars, Approaches and Solutions. Anti-trust, The Right to be Forgotten, GDPR, Privacy, The Equalisation Levy, Digital Platforms Report. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 123 pages. By Matthias Finger Digitalization is such a multifaceted and such a pervasive phenomenon that only a cross-disciplinary approach and culturally…

Lamdan, Sarah (2023). Data Cartels. The Companies That Control and Monopolize our Information. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 203 pages. By Matthias Finger This extremely well documented and researched book introduces the reader to some novel areas of platformization, namely the platformization of actors that manage information, knowledge and intelligence. The author, a…

Montero, Juan and Matthias Finger (2021). The Rise of the New Network Industries: Regulating Digital Platforms. New York & London: Routledge, 292 pages. By Melanie Kolbe-Guyot “The Rise of the New Network Industries – Regulating Digital Platforms” (2021), by Juan Montero and Matthias Finger, is an excellent resource on the rise and…

EPFL professor Jacques Fellay, who served on the Swiss National Covid-19 Task Force and whose lab is affiliated with C4DT, has been selected for a new advisory committee that the government set up recently so policymakers and scientists can continue their joint efforts.

This installment of C4DT’s Digital Governance Book Review focuses on Vili Lehdonvirta’s 2022 book Cloud Empires. How Digital Platforms are Overtaking the State and how we can Regain Control Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 283 pages. An acutely current and fascinating analysis of the adverse effects digital platforms have on…

This installment of C4DT’s Digital Governance Book Review focuses on Bruce Schneier's 2018 Click Here to Kill Everybody. Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World New York; London: W.W. Norton & Company, 319 pages. A must-read for anyone interested in the mounting cyber security challenges posed by the rapid growth…

Call for Applications (CfA): Become a Digital Trust Policy Fellow at C4DT and write cutting-edge, technology-grounded policy papers on current technological challenges in the area of digital trust! Check out our program website for more information. Deadline is November 1, 2022.

With the discussion of this book, the C4DT begins a new publication series, the Digital Governance Book Review: Hereafter, every month, we will summarize and contextualize a book we consider relevant. The book will be either a classic, whose lessons are worth recalling, or a new publication our readers should…

Carmela Troncoso dirige le Laboratoire d’ingénierie en sécurité de l’information et respect de la vie privée de l’EPFL. L’Espagnole, militante LGBT+, s’est forgé une aura internationale grâce à sa contribution à l’app de traçage SwissCovid.

Already involved with EPFL, especially with the Center for Digital Trust (C4DT), the Mobility lab Sion Valais, the EPFL FORUM, the Applied Machine Learning Days and the supervision of master's degree internships, the Swiss Post is seeking to accelerate the start of collaborations with the entire EPFL ecosystem by joining…

Dès le lundi 7 mars, Heidi.news invite à prendre de la hauteur par rapport à la guerre en Ukraine et son flot incessant d'informations. Pour cette «semaine des spécialistes», nous sommes partis à la recherche d’esprits aiguisés pour nous aider à mieux comprendre ce qui se joue là, sous nos…

We are delighted to announce that 3 additional start-ups have joined the C4DT community through the C4DT start-up program. For two years Duokey SA, Futurae Technologies AG and Nym Technologies SA will complement the already diverse group of partner companies through their start-up perspectives to collaborate and share insights on…