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PET Links

The C4DT Factory team selected some Privacy Enhancing Technology (PET) links for you. They are all related to digital trust: security, privacy, trust in general, we have you covered!

The Swiss Confederation E-ID Public Sandbox Trust Infrastructure

Switzerland’s E-ID journey so far In 2021, the Swiss E-ID law proposition was rejected by a public referendum. The reason for the refusal was due to privacy concerns in the implementation and management of that system. In a nutshell, the idea that a private entity would be in control of users’ data was frowned upon. (…)

Implementation of Multicloud Strategies

May/June [tbc}, 2024, 10h00-12h00online Introduction The adoption of multicloud architectures is a strategic response to evolving organizational needs in today’s digital landscape. Motivations for this transition include mitigating risks, such as disaster recovery and business continuity. Diversifying across multiple cloud providers enables organizations to weather potential service outages by seamlessly shifting services to maintain business (…)

Applied Machine Learning Days 2024 – Open-Source AI Models

The Open-Source AI Models track draws attention to the pivotal role that open-source AI models play in the responsible development of artificial intelligence and highlights the challenges that this field faces, including ethical and responsible usage of AI models, sustainability, and licensing and legal issues.

Applied Machine Learning Days 2024 – AI Safety

The AI Safety track addresses the pressing need for responsible AI usage beyond sensationalized risks. While global leaders address extreme threats, the track spotlights often-overlooked but crucial challenges, such as bias mitigation, individuals’ privacy protection, generation of inaccurate or fabricated information, and AI alignment with human values. It serves as a platform for experts from diverse fields to share insights, tackle challenges, and suggest solutions for a safer, human-centric, and trustworthy AI future.

Exploring the Digital Chessboard: The US, China, and EU’s Approaches to Privacy and Security Governance

By Melanie Kolbe-Guyot, Head of Policy, C4DT   It is no secret that we are in the midst of an intense technological rivalry among the great powers of the United States, China, and the European Union; a rivalry that encompasses economic, security, and geopolitical dimensions. The development, control, and weaponization of digital technologies has become (…)

Implementation of Private Cloud based on Open-Source Cloud Stack

February 29th, 2024, 10h00-11h45online Introduction In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, the adoption of private cloud solutions has become a strategic imperative for many organizations seeking enhanced security and control over their data. Additionally, by opting for an open-source cloud stack as the foundation of their private cloud solution, they commit to achieving greater transparency (…)

Blockchains and NFTs are not dead (yet)!

Maya Frühauf of the Education Outreach Department of EPFL asked the C4DT to participate in a 1-day NFT workshop. The Collège Sismondi from Geneva organized a special “semaine informatique” for its students. The C4DT Factory prepared a hands-on workshop to show how to use NFTs. Habiba Zürcher created a project where the students made artwork (…)

Network of Centers for Digital Trust

In order to facilitate innovation and insights between academia, civil society, industry, and government on Digital Trust, C4DT established a global network of academic centers on the subject The goals of this group are to: Currently, the following centers are part of the network: Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society Harvard University USA Blavatnik (…)

Transparency in AI (AI HOUSE)

Establishing trust in AI relies on transparency. To realize this goal, we must overcome three critical challenges. How do we cultivate open-source AI, crucial for community development? How do we ensure clarity on data used in model training, handling copyright and bias concerns? How do we promote explainability, clearly delineating where AI is applicable and where it lacks maturity for extensive use? Join our session for a comprehensive exploration of AI transparency and its impact on trust and technology acceptance.

C4DT Cloud Initiatives

The C4DT launches 3 different initiatives to promote and enable trustworthy and sovereign cloud computing. They build on C4DT’s Conference on Trustworthy and Sovereign Cloud Computing, which was held in September 2023 at the Starling Hotel in St.-Sulpice, and discussions with our partners and conference participants. Each initiative targets a different challenge: C4DT Cloud Initiatives (…)

Swiss Verification Day 2024

Bring together the Swiss formal methods and verification community, especially students and post-docs, for a day of informal talks.

ICRC Webinar : IT With An Ethic

[English] Ethics are critical to the IT field. That is why The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) works digitally towards preserving the trust of interlocutors and communities they serve in order to access affected areas. During this webinar, their goal is to tell you about their backgrounds and how they got to work in ICT and cybersecurity at the ICRC.

Hands-on workshop on ML Leakage

Prof. Carmela Troncoso from the SPRING lab, together with Dr. Bogdan Kulynych gave us an introduction to how data can be leaked from any machine learning model. In the afternoon, led by the C4DT Factory team, the partners explored a set of data and discovered how one can measure this leakage, and how one can protect the model from leaking in the first place.

GymInf – Sécurité et Confidentialité

Course given under the GymInf program of swissuniversities by Linus Gasser.

Subjects for the course:

– why your opinion is worth money
– abusive data collection on personal devices
– protecting internet connections using TLS
– usefulness of blockchains for the decentralization of trust
– homomorphic cryptography for secure data sharing
– legislation on security and privacy in Switzerland, Europe, and elsewhere

GymInf – Sécurité et Confidentialité

Course given under the GymInf program of swissuniversities by Linus Gasser.

Subjects for the course:

– why your opinion is worth money
– abusive data collection on personal devices
– protecting internet connections using TLS
– usefulness of blockchains for the decentralization of trust
– homomorphic cryptography for secure data sharing
– legislation on security and privacy in Switzerland, Europe, and elsewhere

GymInf – Sécurité et Confidentialité

Course given under the GymInf program of swissuniversities by Linus Gasser.

Subjects for the course:

– why your opinion is worth money
– abusive data collection on personal devices
– protecting internet connections using TLS
– usefulness of blockchains for the decentralization of trust
– homomorphic cryptography for secure data sharing
– legislation on security and privacy in Switzerland, Europe, and elsewhere

Cornerstones of a Swiss Digital and Data Policy

This project aims to develop economically based terminology and conceptualizations as well as a sound understanding of digital markets and their regulation in order to propose key values for a Swiss digital policy with a focus on data policy. The resulting framework for analyzing the origins and effects of challenges in digital policy from an economic perspective will then be applied to current political and regulatory initiatives in Switzerland and the EU. Recommendations are derived from this.

C4DT Factory Update “Ethical EOF 23.10”

For this Factory Update called “Ethical EOF” we invited Sylvain from Prof. Carmela Troncoso’s SPRING lab. He gave us an introduction to “Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE)”. We learnt how it can be used in privacy-preserving technologies (PET). Sylvain presented a use case to us which is federated learning. As FHE allows for performing data analysis (…)

Swiss Digital Service Public: Towards a Digital Policy

The advent of digitalization has profoundly transformed societal and economic structures by reshaping traditional value chains into digital platform-driven networks, impacting various sectors, including public services in Switzerland. This project aims to examine the influence of digital platforms on Swiss public services and proposes recommendations for a digital policy.

2. Digital Service Public Workshop

On October 4th, C4DT brought together 20 stakeholders from the Swiss service public sector, administration, politics, civil society and academia to discuss the relationship between digital platforms and traditional physical public services. The goal was to explore the need for action, room for maneuver, and potential initiatives to develop recommendations for the formulation of a (…)

Resources

This website collects several ressources for technology policy paper writing. This collection is not exhaustive but periodically updated. What is a Policy Paper? Very succinctly and a bit simplified put: A policy paper is a concise summary of what is known about a particular issue or problem and what political actions are recommended to address (…)