While anonymization is surely no panacea and should be used cautiously, I believe that it can be beneficial when its usage is embedded into a broader privacy engineering approach.Therefore, I was very happy, when I was invited to participate in the AnoSiDat congress to discuss anonymization and secure data usage. The congress took place on…
Continue reading →Recently, I had the chance to collaborate with great group of privacy engineering experts. In our collaboration, we investigated factors that hamper the adoption of privacy engineering primitives, methods and strategies in real-world information systems. In particular, we identified the following four tactics to foster adoption: You can read all the details in our paper….
Continue reading →I wrote my first article in German in quite some time. It’s about privacy and security in the SDV and how PETs can help improve them. Here’s a brief teaser (in German): Das Fahrzeug der Zukunft wird nicht nur stark von Software geprägt, sondern auch Teil eines breit vernetzten, umfassenden Mobilitäts- und Softwareökosystems sein. Das…
Continue reading →Today, for a change, in German and English. Heute ist der 18. Europäische Datenschutztag – ein guter Anlass, sich die grundlegende Funktion des Datenschutzes und der Privatheit in freiheitlichen, offenen Gesellschaften ins Gedächtnis zu rufen. Umso mehr, als diese in und außerhalb Europas von multiplen Krisen und ihren Feinden im Inneren wie Äußeren so stark…
Continue reading →Happy New Year to everybody! The year is still young, but it has been quite busy for me already. This week has been a particularly talkative one for me. On Monday, I visited Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg to give an invited lecture on security and privacy in connected mobility. As always, it was a pleasure…
Continue reading →Fabian Schäfer, Jeremy Rosen, Felix Wortmann and I teamed up to write “Unleashing The Potential of Data Ecosystems: Establishing Digital Trust through Trust-Enhancing Technologies“, which was was presented at ECIS 2023. In the article, we apply the theory of system trust and investigate the potential of technology to strengthen trust in data ecosystems. In particular, we…
Continue reading →There is a very interesting (and fun to read) new paper on the “reverse privacy paradox”, authored by Jessica Colnago, Lorrie Cranor and Alessandro Acquisti. The authors investigate whether there is a reverse privacy paradox, i.e., a mismatch between participants’ dismissive perspectives on privacy and their privacy-protective behaviors In fact, I found the paper so well-written…
Continue reading →On February 27, I will participate in a panel discussion on privacy engineering and privacy by design in practice. I am very much looking forward to the discussion with Katharina Koerner, Patricia Thaine and Saima Fancy. The virtual event is organized and hosted by the IAPP Toronto and Calgary KnowledgeNet Chapters. You can learn more about and register for the…
Continue reading →As a result of discussion at the IAPP’s DPC22, I started to compile an initial list of privacy engineering beginners’ literature. You can find it under “Resources” in the main menu. It’s definitive not an exhaustive list and obviously a very subjective selection and I am more than happy to hear about any publications you…
Continue reading →This blog post is the third and last of a series of posts that aims at bringing some light into the terminological thicket of privacy engineering. The series primarily aims at illustrating the goals and functions of privacy engineering and how they can be implemented through different technologies. To inform this discussion, it will (if…
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