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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!

In line with C4DT’s objective to promote services in the realm of digital trust, we set up our own Matrix - an open source chat platform - instance and migrated our professional communications there in 2019.

We are incredibly proud to announce the publication of C4DT's 2024 Annual Report. Thanks to the support of many people (partners, researchers, government officials, etc.), the C4DT has further blossomed.

Créée par une start-up chinoise, DeepSeek se targue de faire jeu égal avec ChatGPT. Cette prouesse, avec des moyens techniques limités, montre que la Chine peut rivaliser avec les Etats-Unis dans cette course planétaire à l’IA.

Des chercheurs de l’EPFL ont perverti les principaux agents conversationnels dont ChatGPT. Est-ce grave? Une anthropologue, un sociologue et Antoine Bosselut, professeur d’informatique affilié au C4DT répondent.

Le piratage qui a touché le groupe médical Vidy Med révèle la fragilité des entreprises face à la montée en puissance des criminels de l'informatique. Avec l'éclairage de Jean-Pierre Hubaux, directeur académique du C4DT.

This issue examines the impact of the GDPR nearly seven years after its implementation, comparing data protection legislation in the EU and Switzerland, and explores future implications amid rising generative AI, featuring insights from interviews with data protection specialists.

As we come to the end of a year in which half the world’s population went to the polls, EPFL researchers developed and field-tested a groundbreaking new technology to protect remote electronic voting or e-voting from voter coercion and vote buying.

Artificial intelligence (AI) may be a weapon of mass disinformation, but a recent report has demonstrated that its impact thus far has been limited

🔒 Discover the fascinating world of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) – tools that fortify your digital shield 🌐! For this holiday season, treat yourself to a PET, like secure messaging, and VPNs 🚀.

For two years Brightside AI will complement the already diverse group of partner companies through its start-up perspective to collaborate and share insights on trust-building technologies. Brightside prepares a company’s employees for cyberattacks. Using employees’ digital footprints, Brightside runs AI-driven phishing simulations to prepare teams for potential cyberattacks. It gives…

This publication revisits key questions with speakers from the Oct 1st conference on “Deepfakes, Distrust and Disinformation" through the lens of public perception and seeks to advance the debate surrounding AI, misinformation, and disinformation, especially in political contexts.

📣 New Publication Alert! 📣 📽️ The recordings of the October 1st Conference on "Deepfakes, Distrust and Disinformation: The Impact of AI on Elections and Public Perception" are now accessible here

The issue revolves around the tension between the need for security in digital communications, exemplified by end-to-end encryption, and the concerns of governments and security agencies regarding their ability to intercept criminal activities, particularly the sharing of child sexual abuse material online.

Canton Vaud’s [seal] Program funds projects in digital trust and cybersecurity with up to CHF 100K or 90% of cost ! The aim of this latest call for projects is to stimulate collaborative innovation in order to propose solutions that help meet the challenges of multimedia content security, from data…

C4DT would like to express a BIG THANK YOU to the speakers, panelists, moderators, to the attendees and to the partner Centers who have made this C4DT conference such a memorable and interesting event! We are very thankful for this opportunity and what it's brought us! For those who could…

[Le Temps] Quelques jours après la présentation de la version o1 de ChatGPT, un appel a été lancé pour mieux tester les IA. Cette course folle s’intensifie alors que l’ONU exhorte à ne surtout pas laisser le marché s’autoréguler

Join us on October 1st for the C4DT conference entitled "Deepfakes, Distrust and Disinformation: The Impact of AI on Elections and Public Perception, which will be held at the SwissTech Convention Center, EPFL.

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…

Canton Vaud's [seal] Program funds projects in digital trust and cybersecurity with up to CHF 100K or 90% of cost !

New EPFL research has found that the exchange of comments between members and non-members of fringe communities (fringe-interactions) on mainstream online platforms attracts new members to these groups. It has also suggested potential ways to curtail this growth.

Digitalization and the proliferation of service platforms are permeating all areas of our society, and the public service is not immune to this evolution. A policy paper from the EPFL Center for Digital Trust offers recommendations to maintain the quality of the Swiss public service.

In this fourth part of the blog series “Swiss e-ID journey”, we give an overview of the Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) [10] landscape in CH, EU, and beyond. This allows the reader to put the current effort of the e-ID in context with international efforts in references and implementations regarding e-ID…

C4DT Demonstrator using the Swiss Public Sandbox Trust Infrastructure This is our third article about the Swiss e-ID Journey. An overview of the system can be found in our first article, Switzerland’s e-ID journey so far [1a], and an introduction to the first steps of using the sandbox [8] in…