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...

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...

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...

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

Let’s please not develop extremely complex anonymous credentials based on ECDSA. Let’s just use a different signature scheme.

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

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...

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...

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/...

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.

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...

The U.K. government's insistence that Apple creates an encryption backdoor undermines our right to private spaces. Apple must resist these efforts.

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 )

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.

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.

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!
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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...

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.