Events

2018 was a crazy year for privacy. The General Data Protection Regulation came into force in May, and new revelations on the personal data ecosystem were making headlines on a weekly basis. I will give the behind the scenes for a lot of these events, question why they didn’t happen earlier, and offer some thoughts […]

By Georgia Fragkouli Abstract Can we improve Internet transparency without worsening user anonymity? For a long time, researchers have been proposing transparency systems, where traffic reports produced at strategic network points help assess network behavior and verify service-level agreements or neutrality compliance. However, such reports necessarily reveal when certain traffic appeared at a certain network […]

presented by Sebastian Meiser (UCL) and Esfandiar Mohammadi (ETH Zurich) Anonymity Trilemma: Anonymity, Low Latency, and Low Bandwidth Overhead — Choose Two 15h00 – 12 December 2018, EPFL BC410

presented by Elissa Redmiles From Normative to Descriptive Solutions to Problems in Security, Privacy & Machine Learning 16h15 – 29 November 2018 EPFL BC420

presented by Enis Ceyhun Alp RBurnBox: Self-Revocable Encryption in a World of Compelled Access 11h15 – 2 November 2018, EPFL BC410 Recent work by Nirvan Tyagi, Muhammad Haris Mughees, Thomas Ristenpart, and Ian Miers, which was presented at Usenix Security 2018. More info

presented by David Froelicher Drynx: A Decentralized, Secure, Verifiable System for Statistical Queries and Machine Learning on Distributed Databases 16h15 – 17 October 2018, EPFL BC410

presented by Bogdan Kulynych ClaimChain: Improving the Security and Privacy of In-band Key Distribution for Messaging 16h15 – 3 October 2018, EPFL BC410 Dry-run for the 2018 Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES’18). More info