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ePrivacy Regulation, Legal Design, PIF, Privacy 11.11.2020

The ePrivacy Regulation and Privacy Icons

New ePrivacy Draft Regulation On November 4th, 2020, the Presidency of the Council of the European Union (currently presided by Germany) published its revised and hitherto most recent iteration of …

read more Legal Design, PIF, Privacy 09.11.2020

Redesigned Privacy Policy: Clear, Simple and Visual – Check it out!

Can the website of the Privacy Icons Forum (PIF) serve you a boilerplate, boring and incomprehensible privacy policy – as most other websites do? Of course not! This is the …

read more Coronavirus, Privacy, social distancing 07.04.2020

Video Chat Apps in Times of Social Distancing: A Suitable Way to Fight Loneliness?

  Social Distancing and its Psychological Effects Humans are social beings. We need each other. However, the current Covid19 pandemic requires social distancing to slow down the spread of the …

read more Coronavirus, Hackathon, IT-security, Privacy 03.04.2020

Hacking Corona: An Overview of the Winners of Germany‘s WirVsVirus Hackathon – and the Privacy Angle

Hacking Against the Virus The coronavirus pandemic has the world firmly in its grip. To combat the challenges posed by the spreading plague, with the goal of minimising death rates, …

read more Coronavirus, IT-security, Privacy 30.03.2020

Working from Home (#WFH) and IT Security in Times of COVID-19: New Risks and Challenges

  COVID-19 Measures Increase Remote Work The current battle against the rapid spread of the coronavirus challenges governments on an unprecedented scale. They need to find ways of containing the …

read more Coronavirus, Privacy 23.03.2020

The Fight against Coronavirus: Does the End Justify the Means?

Privacy Icons help us to gain a better understanding of the processing of our personal data when we would like to interact with digital offers and services. During the Corona …

read more Conferences, Legal Design 25.02.2020

“GDPR data protection icons and transparency: where do we stand?” Panel at the CPDP 2020

Last January 22, the founding research institutes of the Privacy Icons Forum (PIF) have debated current and future issues of transparency and privacy icons in a panel organized by the …

read more Workshops 06.01.2020

Privacy Icons Workshop at the Berlin Open Lab

“Co-design workshop” by emilytulloh is licensed under CC BY 2.0 In our interdisciplinary research project “Privacy Icons” at the Einstein Center for Digital Future and the Berlin Open Lab of …

read more Cookies 21.12.2019

For Cookies Fans: The EUCJ’s Decision in the Planet49 Case

The European Court of Justice (EUCJ) ruled in case C‑673/17 – the Planet49 case, published today – that pre-checked boxes through which users are asked to grant consent to the …

read more Legal Design 26.09.2019

A Risk-Based Approach to Visualisation of Data Processing

A Risk-Based Approach to Visualisation of Data Processing EDPL vol. 5(3), 352-366 (2019) UPDATE: Now also available over open access! Downloadable PDF here. Abstract: Although the institution of consent within …

read more Workshops 26.09.2019

STAST Workshop Kickoff Today

STAST, the 9th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects in Security, kicks off today in Luxembourg within the ESORICS conference. The workshop intends to bring together experts in various areas of …

read more PIF 26.09.2019

The PIF has been launched!

We are very happy to announce the launch of the Privacy Icons Forum (PIF). The Forum is a collaboration between research projects and institutions that focus on data protection and …

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