The Sustainable Computing Lab

Vienna Cognitive Science Meetup#2: CogSci & Environmental Issues
2019-12-12 18:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Paris)
We are delighted to invite you to the Vienna Cognitive Science Meetup #2, which will be hosted by the Cognitive Science Hub of the University of Vienna and is co-organised by the Privacy and Sustainable Computing Lab.

As we talked about it in our first meetup, we aim to organise a series of interdisciplinary meetups to discuss how cognitive science can contribute in tackling our ongoing societal and environmental challenges. In our second meetup, we will focus on “CogSci & Environmental Issues“.

Time: Thursday December 12, 2019 at 18:15
Location: Hörsaal G (Faculty of Psychology), University of Vienna, Liebiggasse 5, 1010 Vienna, Austria

Agenda:
– Introduction
– A series of short talks on CogSci and Environmental Issues
– Fishbowl session
– Socialising and networking

Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday!

Kris Ruijgrok: The politics behind India's internet shutdowns
2020-01-08 15:00 - 16:30
India is the world’s largest democracy, but also holds the dubious record of having the highest number of internet shutdowns worldwide. Concerningly moreover, the frequency of shutdowns in India is only increasing. According to the Software Freedom and Law Center (SFLC.in), an Indian NGO defending digital rights, the number of shutdowns rose from 6 in 2014 to 14 in 2015, 31 in 2016, 79 in 2017, to 134 (!) internet shutdowns in 2018. When a shutdown in India takes place, it is usually justified by government officials either as a measure to prevent social unrest and ethnic clashes or to restore law and order. Critics by contrast, point towards the huge societal, economic and psychological repercussions of a shutdown, and furthermore claim that it is an authoritarian practice that limits the free flow of information and silences dissent. My project aims to understand what explains the staggering number of Indian internet shutdowns. Despite increasing efforts to measure and document network disruptions from a technical point of view, in India and beyond, we still have very limited knowledge about the social and political circumstances that lead to an internet shutdown.

CANCELLED: Talk with Jan-Henrik Passoth cancelled
2020-01-15 15:00 - 17:00
Talk today with Jan-Henrik Passoth cancelled

Sabrina Kirrane: SPECIAL project achievements and directions for future research
2020-01-22 15:00 - 16:30
The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) calls
for technical and organizational measures to support its implementation. Towards this end, the SPECIAL H2020 project (https://www.specialprivacy.eu/) aims to provide a set of tools that can be used by data controllers and processors to automatically check if personal data processing and sharing complies with the obligations set forth in the GDPR. In this talk we will provide a high-level overview of the SPECIAL project achievements, present challenges encountered along the way, and highlight some interesting directions for future work.

Lab Annual Meeting 2020
2020-03-09 13:00 - 17:00
As there are many changes happening in the Lab, we’ve decided to the annual meeting a little earlier this year to make sure all of the members are informed about what is going and are able to shape the future of the lab.

The next Lab annual meeting will take place Monday 9 March 2020 at 13:00 at WU Wien, Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Wien in room D2.2.094.

The Austrian Roadmap for Personal Data in Digital Economy | MyDataAustriaMeetup#6
2020-03-10 18:00 - 20:00
Since last year, MyData Austria has been developing a “Human-centric Roadmap for Digital Economy” in collaboration with the Sustainable Computing Lab, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien), the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) and OwnYourData. This “European/Austrian Perspective” on “Personal Data on the Internet” has been constructed as part of our FFG/BMVIT funded project EXPEDiTE (expedite-project.eu). The roadmap is based on extensive literature reviews, expert interviews, focus group studies, and surveys. Before finalising the roadmap, we’d like to have your feedback and input in this meetup.
Agenda:
* Soheil Human, the lead author of the roadmap (who was supported by an interdisciplinary team of co-authors and collaborators from different Austrian institutions) presents the main aspects of the roadmap.
* We then will get your feedback on the roadmap and discuss how it can better contribute to the co-production of our future sustainable digital economies.
* We’d also like to discuss the next step to be taken by MyData Austria.
Link: https://www.meetup.com/MyData-Austria/events/268165744/
Time: Tuesday, March 10, 2020, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Location: WU Executive Academy (Welthandelspl. 1, 1020 Wien) room EA.6.026
see: https://campus.wu.ac.at/?campus=1&q=EA.6.026

Note: There will be another core-team meeting before the meetup (from 4-6pm at WU Wien).

CANCELLED: Florian Saurwein & Charlotte Spencer-Smith: Automated trouble: The role of algorithmic selection in the emergence of harms on social media
2020-03-11 17:00 - 18:30
Algorithms have taken a central role in the automation of an increasing range of tasks in economy and society and their workings are keenly felt in everyday life on social media platforms. Algorithms filter and rank content on feeds and in search results, enforce content moderation rules, advertising policies and community standards, and enable personalized and targeted advertising. However, they also play a role in promoting a range of online harms to the individual, society and democracy, including the amplification of disinformation and hate speech, the development of filter bubbles, lack of transparency in online political microtargeting, and restrictions on free speech through automated deletion of posts by content moderation algorithms.
In this talk, Florian Saurwein and Charlotte Spencer-Smith explore the link between algorithms and harms on major social media platforms Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. They examine how algorithmic selection contributes to harms within social media environments and develop a taxonomy of algorithmic risk. Subsequently, they identify measures of self-regulation taken by social media platforms to manage these risks, to see which tools are available for combating problems, and for which kinds of risks they are used. Results of the combined risk—regulation analysis allow for reflections on the governance implications of the different roles that algorithms play in risks on social media. While algorithmic errors may be fixed by social media companies themselves, the risks of growing power asymmetries call for external control and regulation. The results also point to implications for accountability, in particular that future governance arrangements should recognise algorithmic risk as emerging from the interplay of multiple actors who may be called to account.
The talk is based on results of the research project “The automation of the social: Algorithmic selection on social online networks” which is funded by the Vienna Anniversary Fund for the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Bios
Florian Saurwein is Senior Scientist at the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies (CMC) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Klagenfurt, were he established the research area “Triple A: Automation, Algorithms & Accountability” that explores the social implications of the growing influence of algorithms.
Charlotte Spencer-Smith is a Prae Doc at the Center for Information and Communication Technologies & Society in Communication Studies at the University of Salzburg. Previously, she worked as a Project Assistant in the research area “Triple A: Automation, Algorithms & Accountability” at the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies (CMC) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Klagenfurt.

CANCELLED: Richard Novak: Awareness of Big Data Issues
2020-03-18 17:00 - 18:30
Big Data is a relatively new term that has so far not been viewed through the lens of applied ethics.
My focus in this paper is on the awareness of the conflicts arising between Big Data phenomenon and its issues and the relevant ethical principles.
Firstly, I start with the research of other authors and an overview of ethics and the Digital Divide that are generally accepted. Secondly, I continue with the description of data sources and Big Data use cases from the telecommunication industry, demonstrating what is currently feasible, that I will generalize and, furthermore, suggest a comprehensive list of twelve Big Data issues such as Privacy Intrusion, New Barriers, Business Advantage, Power of All data, New Big Brother effect, Missing Transparency, Confusion, Social Pressure, Belief in Legislation, End of Theory, Data Religion and Unawareness of our Data. Thirdly, I describe the existing regulatory framework of the Big Data area with some suggestions for improvement and I also verify the awareness of the suggested twelve Big Data issues by launching an international survey. Finally, I discuss and conclude the paper results.
The survey (N=733) of university students, IT professionals and seniors from EU countries, mainly Czechia and Slovakia concluded that Big Data issues are grouped into three different and consistent clusters: hot, cold and warm (suggested by the Ward method that uses the Euclid distance between the mean and standard deviation).
I found, using MANOVA Pillai’s statistical test, that clusters are significantly dependent on demography (IT Skills, Occupation and Sex). Warm clusters show interesting dependencies on the demographic category, such as the social pressure perceived important by pensioners and women compared to the underestimated importance reported by men and IT Professionals. The conclusion of the paper is that the awareness of Big Data issues can be grouped into three consistent clusters that depend on a few demographic variables. I also conclude that there is a need for regulation frameworks to move past Data Ethic by Default (Law) to a priori Data Ethics by Design approach.
Keywords: awareness, big data issues, cluster analysis, data ethics by design, demography, digital divide, manova

CANCELLED: Joint Workshop: New Challenges in Law and Technology
2020-03-25 15:00 - 17:30
This joint workshop on New Challenges in Law and Technology between the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law at the University of Vienna and the Privacy and Sustainable Computing Lab at WU Wien.
The workshop will take place on 25 March 2020 from 15:00 to 17:30 at WU. The purpose of the workshop is to exchange ideas between both research groups and discuss potential future research projects.
Presentation topics tbc

CANCELLED: Miriam Kullmann: Data-driven discrimination in the world of work
2020-04-15 15:00 - 16:30

Jan-Hendrik Passoth: Recoding Public Value. Infrastructure, Platforms and Digital Sovereignty in and for Europe
2020-06-03 15:00 - 16:30
tba

DIGITALER WORKSHOP TECHNIKWISSENSCHAFTEN
2020-06-18 15:00 - 17:30
Krisentechnologien und Kooperationstechnik
Perspektiven auf die Rolle menschenzentrierter Technik
bei der Krisenbewältigung

Wann: Donnerstag, 18. Juni 2020, 15-17.30 Uhr • via Zoom

„So viel Wissen über unser Nichtwissen und über den Zwang, unter Unsicherheit handeln und leben zu müssen, gab es noch nie“, sagte Jürgen Habermas Anfang April der Frankfurter Rundschau. Wie können die Unwägbarkeiten des Zwangs des Unsicherheitshandelns und -regulierens technisch abgefedert werden? Welche Rolle spielt Technologie-Pooling? Was sind die soziokulturellen Konditionalitäten des Einsatzes menschenzentrierter Technologie? Gibt es ein innovationsgetriebenes Pandemierecht, das eine kooperationsorientierte, Open Access-gestützte Corona-Wissenschaftsrevolution befördert? Wie hat die Technologie beigetragen zur Bewältigung der Krise?

Das Junges Forum: Technikwissenschaften (JF:TEC) als interdisziplinäres Netzwerk von Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen hat sich seit seiner Gründung die Aufgabe gegeben, Lösungsansätze für die Herausforderungen gegenwärtiger und zukünftiger Technikentwicklung und -gestaltung zu erarbeiten. Die Zeithorizonte schrumpfen in der Krise und dennoch nehmen sich Mitglieder des JF:TEC die Zeit, in einem interdisziplinären Blick eine Bilanz zu ziehen über die ersten Monate der Technikentwicklung im Lichte von Corona. Innovationen müssen der Verbesserung der Lage von Menschen dienen; in Krisen werden die Konturen einer engagierten Technikwissenschaft klar, die Impulse für einen nötigen Dialog über die Interaktion zwischen Technik, Mensch, Gesellschaft und Umwelt gibt. Das Ziel von JF:TEC ist es, zu einer Technik beizutragen, welche die Menschen wirklich wollen. In Zeiten von Corona muss dies ergänzt werden: insbesondere eine Technik und Technologien sind zu erforschen und zu fördern, welche die Menschen wirklich brauchen.

Programm
15:00 Eröffnung: Tobias Redlich (Hamburg), JF:TEC
15:10 Gesellschaftliche Konditionalitäten
Moderation: Sissy-Ve Basmer-Birkenfeld (Hamburg)
Leonie Sieger (Bottrop): Soziotechnische Herausforderungen in der Krisenbewältigung
Katharina Mosene (Hamburg/Berlin): Diskriminierungstechnologien und Emanzipationsperspektiven
15:40 Krisenbewältigungsrecht
Moderation: Elke Greifeneder (Berlin)
Matthias C. Kettemann (Hamburg/Jena): Internetzugang als Daseinsvorsorge? Staatliche Pflichten zur Sicherung gesellschaftlicher Teilhabe vor und nach Corona
Christoph Sorge (Saarbrücken): Datenschutz in Zeiten von Corona
16:10-16:25 Virtuelle Kaffeepause mit Breakout Sessions
16:25 Kooperationstechnologien
Moderation: Walid Maalej (Hamburg)
Manuel Moritz (Hamburg): Open Source Hardware und verteilte Produktion in Zeiten von Corona
Paula Bräuer und Athanasios Mazarakis (Kiel): Open Access und Anreizsysteme
Thomas Niendorf und Alexander Liehr (Kassel): 3D-Druck als Antwort auf die Krise
17:05 Gemeinsame Schlussdiskussion:
Mit menschenzentrierter Technologie in die Postpandemie
Moderation: Tobias Redlich (Hamburg), JF:TEC
17:30 Schluss

Diskutieren Sie mit uns, welche technischen Entwicklungen nötig sind, welche gesellschaftlichen Probleme wir lösen müssen und welche rechtlichen Schritte zu setzen sind, damit, so die UNO-Generalversammlung in ihrer Corona-Resolution von Anfang April 2020, „die beispiellose Krise, die durch die COVID-19-Pandemie verursacht wurde, durch Leadership und nachhaltige globale Zusammenarbeit und Solidarität gemildert und erfolgreich rückgängig gemacht werden kann“.
Anmeldung: Bitte melden Sie sich unter info@JFTEC.de an. Wir versenden den Link für die Veranstaltung und Hinweise zur Beteiligung über Social Media einige Tage davor.
Organisation: Matthias C. Kettemann für das Junge Forum: Technikwissenschaften (JF:TEC), Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg
Kooperationspartner: Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung | Hans-Bredow-Institut, Hamburg • Alexander von Humboldt-Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft, Berlin • Sustainable Computing Lab, WU Wien • Vertretungslehrstuhl für Internationales Recht, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena • Forschungszentrum “Normative Ordnungen”, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main • ZBW Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel • Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel • IBI Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Das Internet – eine #Hassmaschine?
2020-09-17 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker: Hakan Tanriverdi (Bayrischer Rundfunk)
Registration: internetrecht@jur.uni-frankfurt.de
More information: normativeorders.net/internetforschung

The GDPR: Lessons from Two Years of Evaluation!
2020-10-14 17:30 - 18:30

An Insider’s Guide to Safeguarding Human Rights in EU Digital Policy
2020-10-15 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker: Eliška Pírková (Access Now, Brüssel)
Registration: internetrecht@jur.uni-frankfurt.de
More information: normativeorders.net/internetforschung

A Human-centric Roadmap for Digital Economy
2020-10-28 17:30 - 19:30

The Dark Patterns of Surveilance
2020-11-11 17:30 - 19:00

Medienaufsichtliche Plattform- und Intermediärregulierung in Deutschland: Chance, Hybris oder Symbolpolitik?
2020-11-19 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker: Matthias Cornils (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
Registration: internetrecht@jur.uni-frankfurt.de
More information: normativeorders.net/internetforschung

Perceiving Time/Space through Apps: Human-centric Digital Transformation in GIS
2020-11-25 17:00 - 20:00
We are happy to invite you to the joint Cognitive Science Austria Meetup #3 and MyData Hub Austria Meetup #6.
The perception of geographic reality depends heavily on the tools, such as paper maps or geographic information systems (GIS) used to perceive it. Developing a map involves countless subjective decisions and provides a window into the worldview of its creator. Especially when a system is implemented on a large scale, subjective decisions are typically invisible to users and can result in systematic biases. In other words, a perfect map does not exist; rather, a map or navigation system can be more or less appropriate for certain tasks or contexts. Navigation systems can influence how users perceive environmental distance and influence spatial behavior. Importantly even without any tools human beings are not able to perfectly conceptualize geographic space, and there are numerous well documented distortions in how human beings perceive spatial relationships and distance. Therefore, tools such as GIS are so important, as they are tailored to improve users’ ability to make accurate predictions about their surroundings (i.e. to empower users). (Reference: https://epub.wu.ac.at/7801/)
In this interdisciplinary meetup, which is jointly organised by the Sustainable Computing Lab (http://sustainablecomputing.eu), Cognitive Science Austria, and MyData Hub Austria, we aim to discuss GISs and their impact on humans’ perception and decision making. Moreover, we will talk about the biases found in GISs from an interdisciplinary perspective.
People from academia, industry, as well as public sector are all welcome to join this meetup. Let’s build up a network of engaged people who like to understand and shape the future “Human-centric and Accountable Mobility”.
More info + Online event links: https://www.meetup.com/Cognitive-Science-Austria/events/274210097/ or https://www.meetup.com/MyData-Austria/events/274486754/
Hopefully seeing you all (virtually),
Cognitive Science Austria
MyData Hub Austria
Sustainable Computing Lab

Perceiving Time/Space through Apps: Human-centric Digital Transformation in GIS
2020-11-25 17:30 - 20:30
The perception of geographic reality depends heavily on the tools, such as paper maps or geographic information systems (GIS) used to perceive it. Developing a map involves countless subjective decisions and provides a window into the worldview of its creator. Especially when a system is implemented on a large scale, subjective decisions are typically invisible to users and can result in systematic biases. In other words, a perfect map does not exist; rather, a map or navigation system can be more or less appropriate for certain tasks or contexts. Navigation systems can influence how users perceive environmental distance and influence spatial behavior. Importantly even without any tools human beings are not able to perfectly conceptualize geographic space, and there are numerous well documented distortions in how human beings perceive spatial relationships and distance. Therefore, tools such as GIS are so important, as they are tailored to improve users’ ability to make accurate predictions about their surroundings (i.e. to empower users). (Reference: https://epub.wu.ac.at/7801/)
In this interdisciplinary meetup, which is jointly organised by the Sustainable Computing Lab (http://sustainablecomputing.eu), MyData Hub Austria, and Cognitive Science Austria, we aim to discuss GISs and their impact on humans’ perception and decision making. Moreover, we will talk about the biases found in GISs from an interdisciplinary perspective.
People from academia, industry, as well as public sector are all welcome to join this meetup. Let’s build up a network of engaged people who like to understand and shape the future “Human-centric and Accountable Mobility”.

Online event link / More info:
https://www.meetup.com/MyData-Austria/events/274486754/

https://www.meetup.com/Cognitive-Science-Austria/events/274210097/

Austrians' Online Privacy Attitudes: A Representative Study
2020-12-09 17:30 - 19:00

The Normative Order of the Internet: A Theory of Rule and Regulation Online (OUP 2020)
2020-12-14 15:00 - 17:00
Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung │Hans-Bredow-Institut, Forschungsverbund „Normative Ordnungen“)
Prof. Dr. Stefan Kadelbach, LL.M. (Professor für Öffentliches Recht, Europarecht und Völkerrecht der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Forschungsverbund „Normative Ordnungen“)
Begrüßung: Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst (Sprecher des Forschungsverbunds „Normative Ordnungen“ und Professor für Politische Theorie und Philosophie der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Die Veranstaltung wird virtuell über GoToMeeting und auf Englisch stattfinden. Um Anmeldung an office@normativeorders.net wird gebeten.
Veranstalter:
Forschungsverbund „Normative Ordnungen“ der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
There is order on the internet, but how has this order emerged and what challenges will threaten and shape its future? This study shows how a legitimate order of norms has emerged online, through both national and international legal systems. It establishes the emergence of a normative order of the internet, an order which explains and justifies processes of online rule and regulation. This order integrates norms at three different levels (regional, national, international), of two types (privately and publicly authored), and of different character (from ius cogens to technical standards).
Matthias C. Kettemann assesses their internal coherence, their consonance with other order norms and their consistency with the order’s finality. The normative order of the internet is based on and produces a liquefied system characterized by self-learning normativity. In light of the importance of the socio-communicative online space, this is a book for anyone interested in understanding the contemporary development of the internet.
Weitere Informationen zur Veranstaltungsreihe: Hier…
Weitere Informationen zum Buch: Hier…

Cyberangriff auf die Demokratie: EU und USA in Gefahr?
2020-12-17 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker: Julia Schütze (Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, Berlin)
Registration: internetrecht@jur.uni-frankfurt.de
More information: normativeorders.net/internetforschung

Freiheit zur Rechtswidrigkeit im Internet: Herausforderungen technischer Rechtsdurchsetzung
2021-01-21 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker: Maximilian Becker (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Registration: internetrecht@jur.uni-frankfurt.de
More information: normativeorders.net/internetforschung

Die Rolle des Rechts im Kampf gegen digitale Gewalt gegen Frauen Theorie vs. Praxis'
2021-03-18 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker: Verena Haisch (DLA Piper und Deutscher Juristinnenbund e.V.)
Registration: internetrecht@jur.uni-frankfurt.de
More information: normativeorders.net/internetforschung

The Facebook Oversight Board: The First Year
2021-04-15 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker: Kate Klonick (St. John’s University Law School)
Registration: internetrecht@jur.uni-frankfurt.de
More information: normativeorders.net/internetforschung

Die Renaissance des Staats im Internet?
2021-05-13 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker: Anna Sophia Tiedeke (Humboldt-Universität Berlin)
Registration: internetrecht@jur.uni-frankfurt.de
More information: normativeorders.net/internetforschung

Cybersecurity and Semi-State Actors: Pirates, Privateers, and Mercantile Companies?
2021-06-17 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker: Florian Johannes Egloff (ETH Zürich)
Registration: internetrecht@jur.uni-frankfurt.de
More information: normativeorders.net/internetforschung

Victor Morel: Enhancing Transparency and Consent in the IoT
2021-06-25 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Event, To receive the online event link, please send an email to, events[@]sustainablecomputing.eu
The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing fast, but this growth is not without consequence. Indeed, the increasing number of devices raises the possibility of surveillance to a level never seen before. In parallel, the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018 imposes obligations to data controllers on the content of information about personal data collection and processing, and on the means of communication of this information to data subjects. This information is all the more important that it is required for consent, which is one of the legal grounds to process personal data. However, the Internet of Things can pose difficulties to implement lawful information communication and consent management. The tension between the requirements of the GDPR for information and consent and the Internet of Things cannot be easily solved, it is however possible. This presentation sketches a solution for information communication and consent management in the Internet of Things from a technological point of view.
Speaker: Victor Morel
Victor Morel holds a PhD in computer science from Inria, conducted in the Privatics team. His research interests include privacy engineering, design, networks, and ethics of technology in a broad manner. He appreciates sober, hackable, and accessible technology that works.

Vincent Roca | Smart Bulbs and Privacy: Lost in the Smart Jungle
2021-10-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Event, To receive the online event link, please send an email to, events[@]sustainablecomputing.eu
Title:
Smart Bulbs and Privacy: Lost in the Smart Jungle
Speaker:
Vincent Roca
French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (Inria)
Collaborators: Mathieu Thiery, Michael Toth, Vincent Roca, Arnaud Legout (Inria)
When?
Friday, 1. October 2021; 12:00 CEST
Online event via Zoom:
For a link to the meeting, please contact: events[@]sustainablecomputing.eu
Abstract:
In the current Internet of Things (IoT) era, smart homes are getting increasingly equipped with connected devices, with privacy implications that largely remain unknown to the end-user. In this talk, we focus on three representative and popular smart bulbs, manufactured by Philips, IKEA and LIFX. We analyze the privacy implications of various techniques to control these bulbs—i.e., switching them ON and OFF—, using various smartphone applications, smart speakers and smart buttons. We show that these techniques determine the remote actors concerned (who are aware of what is going on) and the volume of data sent to the Internet (we measured major differences), and we observe that data often leave the user’s house and country (even though the user is at home). Finally, by analyzing the Privacy Policies we highlight that, in most cases, the end-user cannot reasonably understand the situation. The whole situation is neither respectful of the user’s privacy, nor legal (no user consent), nor sovereign (it creates dependencies on foreign actors). For these reasons, we call for different architectures that would favor local communications and data minimization, with the additional benefit of significantly reducing the ecological footprint.
Bio:
After a PhD from Grenoble INP in 1996, Vincent Roca joins the University Paris 6 as Associate Professor in 1997, and Inria as researcher in 2000. Specialised in networking, author of fourteen Internet standards (RFCs), since 2017 he is co-chair of an IETF research group, the organisation in charge of Internet standardisation. Member of PRIVATICS since 2012, he is now leading this Inria research team specialised in privacy and personal data protection. He focusses in particular on the privacy risks associated to the use of smartphones and Internet of Things devices. He is also co-author, with PRIVATICS colleagues, of the ROBERT and CLÉA protocols that are the foundations of the contact and presence tracing features of the French official TousAntiCovid app.
More information on https://privatics.inrialpes.fr/people/roca/
Chairs:
Arianna Rossi, University of Luxembourg
Cristiana Teixeira Santos, Utrecht University
Martin Degeling, Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB)
Soheil Human, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien)
