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New from @jpquintais.bsky.social & me: a critical and wide analysis of the Obligations of all General-Purpose AI Model providers under the EU AI Act. We give a deep ~50 page, 300 footnote treatment and find so many tensions, loopholes, inconsistencies and more.

Link: files.michae.lv/papers/Veale...
November 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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What is chat control? Good video explainer developed by @carmelatroncoso.bsky.social and team at Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy #chatcontrol www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y2O...
What is Chat Control?
YouTube video by Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
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October 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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This is a friendly reminder that the call for contributed talks to Real World Crypto in Taipei 2026 is open until October 10. We are looking for interesting talks bridging cryptography and its real-world use! Also it’s a great way to meet new people! rwc.iacr.org/2026/contrib...
RWC 2026 call for papers
Real World Crypto Symposium
rwc.iacr.org
October 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Thank you all for attending PETS 2025! Special shoutout to General Chair @adamaviv.bsky.social for hosting, to Program Chairs @zubair-shafiq.bsky.social and @ikben-robjansen.bsky.social , and stellar volunteers for making it a success. See you next time ✨
📅 Submit to PETS 2026 Issue 2: Aug 31, 2025
July 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Let’s please not develop extremely complex anonymous credentials based on ECDSA. Let’s just use a different signature scheme.
June 30, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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We launched CoverDrop 🎉 providing sources with a secure and anonymous way to talk to journalists. Having started five years ago as a PhD research project, this now ships within the Guardian app to millions of users—all of which provide cover traffic. Paper, code, and more info: www.coverdrop.org
CoverDrop: Blowing the Whistle Through A News App
www.coverdrop.org
June 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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I'm one of the signers of this open letter to the Commission asking to ensure that civil society, human rights lawyerd and academics get properly involved in the preparation of a Technology Roadmap on encryption. edri.org/our-work/tec...
Technical experts call on Commissioner Virkkunen for a seat on the table of the European Commission’s Technology Roadmap on encryption - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
EDRi, in a group of 39 organisations and 43 experts, published an open letter today to call for a scientific evidence-based approach to encryption.
edri.org
May 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Registration is NOW OPEN for the 2025 PET Symposium! 🎉 Lock in early bird pricing before rates go up on June 15th.
petsymposium.org/2025/registr...
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2025
petsymposium.org
April 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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I am excited to co-organise #Dagstuhl seminar next month on #privacywashing through #PETs and the need for a privacy evaluation framework to prevent #privacywashing.

www.dagstuhl.de/en/seminars/...
Dagstuhl Seminar 25112: PETs and AI: Privacy Washing and the Need for a PETs Evaluation Framework
www.dagstuhl.de
February 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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I *am* pursuing an advanced degree in human-computer interaction and we have research that shows that LLMs have a homogenizing effect on human creativity, can reduce critical thinking skills, and are particularly dangerous when their operator lacks the expertise to catch their hallucinations.
If you have zero education, but learn how to ask AI models the right questions , in many jobs you will be able to outperform someone with an advanced degree, but who is unwilling to use Large Language Models.

Just takes a smartphone, curiosity to experiment and a mindset to learn.
February 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Legislators in the US are now starting to push back against the UK’s demand for backdoors in Apple encryption. archive.is/2025.02.13-1...
archive.is
February 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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The U.K. government's insistence that Apple creates an encryption backdoor undermines our right to private spaces. Apple must resist these efforts.
The UK's Demands for Apple to Break Encryption Is an Emergency for Us All
The Washington Post reported that the United Kingdom is demanding that Apple create an encryption backdoor to give the government access to end-to-end encrypted data in iCloud. Encryption is one of th...
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February 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Submissions are OPEN for the Enigma track at USENIX Security 2025; submit your killer talk by 7 March 2025! https://sec25enigma.usenix.hotcrp.com/ (CFP: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity25/enigma-cfp )
USENIX Security '25 Enigma Track Call for Participation
Submissions due: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 Notification to submitters: Wednesday, May 7, 2025
www.usenix.org
January 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Age verification laws are right up there with real names policies in the pantheon of "you think this is going to help people, but it's actually quite disastrously bad" ideas.
The Impact of Age Verification Measures Goes Beyond Porn Sites
As age verification bills pass across the world under the guise of “keeping children safe online,” governments are increasingly giving themselves the authority to decide what topics are deemed “safe” ...
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January 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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If you work at the intersection of security, privacy, and machine learning, or more broadly how to trust ML, SaTML is a small-scale conference with highly-relevant work where you'll be able to have high-quality conversations with colleagues working in your area.
January 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I am so excited to share that I’ll be joining the @maxplanck.de on Security and Privacy as a scientific director on March 1st! I'm taking a leave from @icepfl.bsky.social where I have met so many amazing colleagues. Thanks to all that contribute(d) to my journey!
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP) on LinkedIn: #maxplanckinstitut #computerscience #privacy #security #mpisp
On March 1st, Carmela Troncoso will join the MPI-SP as a new scientific director. Carmela is known for her work on the privacy-preserving protocol behind the…
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January 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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"The two companies reportedly signed an agreement last year stating OpenAI has only achieved AGI when it develops AI systems that can generate at least $100 billion in profits."

"AGI is when I have heaps of money," is one hell of a position.

techcrunch.com/2024/12/26/m...
Microsoft and OpenAI have a financial definition of AGI: Report | TechCrunch
Microsoft and OpenAI have a very specific, internal definition of artificial general intelligence (AGI) based on the startup's profits, according to a new
techcrunch.com
December 27, 2024 at 12:42 AM
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This is joint work with Felipe Gomez, Georgios Kaissis, @fcalmon.bsky.social, and @carmelatroncoso.bsky.social

Happy to chat about it online, and in 🇨🇦+🇺🇸 next two weeks:
- At the #NeurIPS2024 Friday Dec. 13 evening poster session.
- Will also present in more detail on Tuesday Dec. 17 at Harvard.
December 10, 2024 at 3:11 AM