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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!

Conference on Building Trust in Digital Identities

May 31st, 2023, InterContinental Hotel Geneva and online Building Trust in Digital Identities – Leveraging the Power of Technology, Policy, and Digital Cooperation Description More and more governments around the world are implementing or exploring the implementation of digital identity (e-ID) solutions, while regional organizations such as the European Union and African Union actively work (…)

Conference on Building Trust in Digital Identities

Governments worldwide are implementing or seeking to implement digital identity (e-ID) solutions to enable economic inclusion, facilitate access to public services, and validate credentials in e-commerce. In developing countries they may also further the UN concept of ‘identity for all’ and support sustainable development goals. However, the safety, trustworthiness, and interoperability of national e-IDs have generated a number of crucial questions.

This event brings together stakeholders from Europe, Switzerland, Africa and the International Community to discuss the latest technological developments, explore ways to foster public trust, and promote viable and trustworthy e-ID solutions through multilateral and multi-stakeholder dialogue and cooperation.

`cargo-tarpaulin`: code coverage for Rust

Coverage? Testing is one of the most important step of code validation. One would argue that an untested code is akin to a rogue program destroying what it can in its way. But what tests the testing? How do you know that your testing infrastructure is indeed simulating most behaviors of your code? Here comes (…)

Graph Embedding Methods for Scalable Knowledge Graph Completion

Knowledge graphs have recently attracted significant attention in scenarios that require exploiting large-scale heterogeneous data collections. When graph sizes reach high orders of magnitude a delicate balance between performance and computational cost might is required. This project presents an approach to construct a model that generates meaningful graph representations while maintaining the scalability and prediction performance as significant as possible.

Discovering Nix

What is Nix? I recently had the opportunity to play with Nix, which is a package manager and an OS based on this package manager. Nix is special in the sense that it claims to only make reproducible builds that can’t break the system. But how? The package manager is “purely functional”, which means that (…)

Rust vs. Haskell

  vs. Today we looked at the following article, which compares Rust and Haskell: https://serokell.io/blog/rust-vs-haskell Even though I did some dabbling in Haskell, I never understood how close the two are. Currently I think I’m quite proficient in Rust, so I can follow the article quite well on that side. While the basic concepts seem (…)

Finance & Technology Conference 2021

November 5th, 2021, Swiss Tech Convention Center, EPFL Distributed Ledger Technology has the potential to reshape the traditional financial system. An example is decentralized finance, which allows people to combine open-source building blocks into sophisticated financial products utilizing DLT. Central banks, as another example, face growing competition from private actors offering their own digital alternative (…)

CPDP 2023 – How to make privacy more user-friendly for the long-term?

C4DT and the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity jointly host a panel at this year’s CPDP conference in Brussels on “How to make privacy more user-friendly for the long-term?” (24 May, 11h45).

Already today privacy, data security and transparency are at peril. Now, imagine these challenges on steroids by 2030 as AI evolves, new technologies and actors emerge. This discussion at the intersection of people, policy and technology will engage participants in long-term thinking to help make privacy lastingly more user-friendly, and explore how latest technology progress and new governance models can help to achieve this goal.

Digital Governance Book Review: Data Cartels. The Companies That Control and Monopolize our Information (2023)

Posted on by Melanie Kolbe-Guyot

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 law professor, shares her unique (…)

Trust & Innovation Geneva Conference

A flagship conference on the trust economy and cybersecurity in international Geneva.

Bringing together various private, public and academic actors from the State of Geneva, this exclusive platform will allow to reflect on digital governance and the main challenges of the trust economy. It will also be an opportunity for the start-ups of the Tech4Trust program to present their innovative solutions.

An online broadcast of the conference will also be available.

Documentary on “Algorithmes – vers un monde manipulé” during 21st FIFDH Geneva

On Tuesday, 14 March 2023, a documentary by Dorothé Dörholt, entitled “Algorithmes – vers un monde manipulé” (sub-titles in English), will be shown at the EPFL in conference room SV 1717. Its projection is part of the 21st International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH), held from 10-19 March 2023. C4DT’s Executive Director, Dr. Olivier Crochat, will participate in the post-projection panel discussion.

SSCC Online Workshop on Zero Trust

This online workshop is co-organized by the Swiss Support Center for Cybersecurity (SSCC) and the SWITCH Foundation (SWITCH), in collaboration with the Center for Digital Trust (C4DT) at EPFL and the Zurich Information Security Center (ZISC) at ETHZ.

Its goal is to shed light on different aspects of “Zero Trust”. Our speakers cover a wide range of expertise and present their views on and experience with “Zero Trust”. As it has been the case in previous workshops, we hope that the format allows for interesting interactions with the audience.

ADHes: Attacks and Defenses on FPGA-CPU Heterogeneous Systems

FPGAs are essential components in many computing systems. With conventional CPUs, FPGAs are deployed in various critical systems, such as wireless base stations, satellites, radars, electronic warfare platforms, and data centers. Both FPGAs and CPUs have security vulnerabilities; integrating them together presents new attack opportunities on both sides. In this project, we investigate the attacks made possible by closely integrating FPGAs with CPUs in heterogeneous computing platforms.

C4DT Conference on Software Supply Chain Security

March 30th, 2023, Swiss Tech Convention Center, EPFL The past two years saw a new vulnerability make headlines: software supply chains. Events such as the  SolarWinds and Kaseya cyberattacks or the discovery of the Log4j vulnerability forced organizations to reevaluate their cyber risk exposure. This one-day conference provides a platform for academia, government, business, NGOs (…)

Finance and Technology Conference 2023

April 26th, 2023, Starling Hotel, EPFL Decentralized Finance (DeFi) started out with the promise to disrupt the financial industry by removing third parties and centralized institutions from financial transactions and hence allowing consumers direct access to capital and financial services. Until now, however, DeFi’s disruptive forces have not manifested themselves purely favorably. In 2022 crypto (…)

Digital Governance Book Review: The Rise of the New Network Industries (2021)

Posted on by Melanie Kolbe-Guyot

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 inner workings of digital platforms (…)

How to build Trust in Decentralized Finance?

For this year’s edition of the Finance & Technology Conference the Swiss Finance Institute (sfi) and the Center for Digital Trust (C4DT), EPFL are teaming up again to focus on Decentralized Finance (DeFi). The conference will be held on Thursday 26th of April at the Starling Hotel @ EPFL, Switzerland.

For more information and the agenda please click here.

UNIL Digiweek conference

Blockchain, smart contracts, cryptocurrencies, platforms, big data – new technologies are challenging lawyers. They must grasp the main social, economic and technical challenges of digitalisation and find the right legal instruments to react to the upheavals caused by digital technology. This is the perspective of the “Digitalisation Week”.

[FR] Journée de la protection des données 2023

A l’occasion de la Journée de la protection des données, la Faculté de droit, des sciences criminelles et d’administration publique de l’Université de Lausanne organise une conférence publique en collaboration avec le Préposé fédéral à la protection des données et à la transparence, le Centre universitaire d’informatique de l’Université de Genève et ThinkServices.

Mob programming – Adventofcode Day 12

During the month of December, Advent of Code passes out a new puzzle every day. The daily challenges are a fun way to learn new algorithms and getting to know new ways of programming. In our software engineering team we followed along at least the first half of the programming challenges and enjoyed discussing the solutions (…)