CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

13th Annual Privacy Forum 2025 “Privacy Technologies and Policy”
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 22-23 October 2025, http://privacyforum.eu/

Keynotes by

· Wojciech Wiewiórowski (European Data Protection Supervisor)

· Meike Kamp (Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information)

· Thomas Bindl (EuGD), Christian Däuble (Spirit Legal): Privacy Litigation as Private Enforcement – Theory vs. Reality

· Jens Bender (German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Head of unit "Technological Data Protection"): Data Protection and Cybersecurity – Friends or Foes?

· Frank Pallas (Paris Lodron University of Salzburg): On principles, non-functional properties and technical experiments – Building solid techno-legal bridges in Privacy Engineering

Panels on

·         Digital Sovereignty

·         Communities in Privacy and Data Protection

·         The experience from EUDPR and the challenges ahead

Paper presentations on

·         Emerging Risks from Upcoming Technologies, Misunderstandings, and Regulatory Derogation

·         Supporting Laypeople and Users: Design Approaches, User Perceptions, and Problems

·         Professional Methods & Tools for Analysis and Decision Making

The programme is available at: https://privacyforum.eu/programme.htm

Registration is possible at https://privacyforum.eu/registration.htm

General theme: Privacy Technologies and Policy

The value of personal data in the online world has significantly increased over the last years as electronic products, services and processes have permeated every fold of everyday life. Limitations in the transparency, the functionality and interconnectivity of online and communication services increases the risk of having personal data processed out of control of any accountable person or organization or simply becoming exposed to all sorts of privacy threats.

The EU legal framework on personal data protection is key in an effort to better control the processing of personal data while ensuring an adequate level of protection. Even the best legislative efforts cannot keep up to speed with the pace of innovative technology and business models that challenge the way personal data is processed and privacy is protected across the EU and beyond; therefore, examining what is at stake and where threats thereto originate from becomes of paramount importance.

Against this background, RSAC™, Plattform Privatheit, Goethe-University Frankfurt, and Karlstad University are jointly organizing the Annual Privacy Forum (APF) 2025 in Frankfurt a.M., Germany.

Moreover on October 21 the EDPS Internet Privacy Engineering Network (IPEN) will have its next event on “Secure multi-party computation” at the same venue, cf. https://www.edps.europa.eu/data-protection/technology-monitoring/ipen/ipen-event-secure-multi-party-computation_en

APF 2025 is organized with support from ENISA, EDPS, ECCC, BMFTR, and CEPIS.

Program Committee Chairs

· Narges Arastouei, Goethe University Frankfurt

· Meiko Jensen, Karlstad University

· Kai Rannenberg, Goethe University Frankfurt

Prof. Dr. Kai Rannenberg            Kai.Rannenberg@m-chair.de

Chair of Mobile Business & Multilateral Security

Goethe University Frankfurt        

Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 4           Phone:   +49-69-798-34701

60629 Frankfurt/Main, Germany       WWW:       www.m-chair.de

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