CPDP.ai 2025
who it's for
policy makers, data protection officers, civil society advocates, privacy professionals, legal practitioners, tech policy researchers
topics
AI Act and GDPR interface; training data provenance for generative AI; data protection in law enforcement; role and ROI of data protection officers; children's online protection standards; privacy enhancing technologies in advertising; sovereign AI and local compute strategy; platform addiction and persuasive design; civil litigation under EU digital rules; regulatory sandboxes for AI oversight
| title | author | length |
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| Enforcing EU's Digital Regulations in Court - How Can Civil Society Step in? | Emmanuelle Debouverie, Joris van Hoboken, Augustin Reyna, Simone Ruf, Ursula Pachl | 01h 20m |
Panel argues private litigation must back public enforcement by using the Representative Actions Directive, DSA/DMA/GDPR provisions and national courts to… | ||
| Delivering on Children’s Rights Online An Improved Digital World for All? | Leanda Barrington-Leach, Linn Høgåsen, Felix Mikolasch, Ali Hessami, Ioannis Koutsoumpinas | 01h 15m |
Panel documents that children average over seven hours a day online and 50% of children feel addicted, with many encountering porn before age ten. Specific… | ||
| Reclaiming Digital Agency Art, Research & Resistance... | Susannah Montgomery, Gema FB Martín, Ayoon Ro, Freyja van den Boom, Ahnjili Zhuparris | 01h 16m |
Artists and researchers describe concrete projects: a Marshall McLuhan chatbot built to test persona-based hallucination, a toyboy.deepfake exhibit and… | ||
| Migrants in the Digital Periphery New Urban Frontiers of Control | Matt Mahmoudi, Petra Molnar, Alessandra Calvi, Laurence Meyer | 01h 14m |
Book argues that tech firms turn cities into testing grounds for border control, using biometric tools (fingerprints, iris, face, DNA), predictive algorithms… | ||
| The Tech Coup How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley | Marietje Schaake, Paul De Hert, Irene Kamara, Esther Keymolen | 01h 08m |
Argues that Big Tech now functions as a de facto sovereign with concrete examples: zero-click spyware sold on commercial markets enabling remote hacks; facial… | ||
| Eyes Have Ears Analog Synaesthesia... | Boris Shershenkov | 01h 14m |
Tracks a concrete claim: old Soviet audio‑video hardware and wired home radio form unintended cross‑modal channels that were repurposed for surveillance and… | ||
| Will the Books Save Us Searching for New Utopias | Maria Magierska, Etienne Valk, Karolina Iwańska | 01h 15m |
Panel argues that influential founders repeatedly read dystopian novels as blueprints, citing Snow Crash -> metaverse (Zuckerberg), Dune -> Mars colonization… | ||
| Cyberviolence, Vulnerability, and the Challenges of AI | Irene Kamara, Kim Barker, Catherine van de Heyning, Maria Asensio Velasco, Evin Incir | 01h 08m |
AI is amplifying existing harms: deep-nude apps produce synthetic nudes in seconds and investigators report schools where teachers resign after image-based… | ||
| When Is a Summary of Data Used to Train GPAI Sufficiently Detailed? | Kristina Irion, Zuzanna Warso, Yordanka Ivanova, Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Arriën Molema | 01h 15m |
EU law soon forces GPAI providers to publish a “sufficiently detailed” training-data summary and the Commission’s AI Office is drafting a template that lists… | ||
| Sovereign AI Navigating Strategic Autonomy... | Theodore Christakis, Ben Nimmo, Yann Padova, Kai Zenner, Becky Richards | 01h 26m |
Panel argues Europe pushes a concrete Eurostack roadmap (sovereign cloud, data ecosystems, local compute) and calls for a sovereignty compact to let willing… | ||
| The Economic Benefits of Having a DPO | Aymeric Pontvianne, Ricardo Catalan, Nadia Arnaboldi, Thomas van Gremberghe, Gerard Buckley | 01h 23m |
Survey of 3,500 French DPOs finds concrete gains: reduced fines, fewer breaches, faster public tender wins, streamlined data flows and a reputational premium… | ||
| The DPO Universales Crossing Borders on a Bumpy Road | Carolien Michielsen, Renato Leite Montero, Helena Koning, Isabelle Vereecken | 01h 15m |
Panel documents that national DPO rules and practice diverge sharply: Mastercard uses an internal policy to apply GDPR standards across ~38 countries with… | ||
| Future Digital Infrastructures for Climate Change... | Joris van Hoboken, Golestan (Sally) Radwan, Hendrik Hamann, Eric Monjoux, Bengi Zeybek | 01h 16m |
Panel reports concrete systems and limits: UNEP is fine-tuning a climate LLM called Environment GPT on UNEP reports to avoid hallucinations; ESA and EU run… | ||
| Data protection for European law enforcement taking stock... | Jekaterina Macuka, Daniel Drewer, Michael Armstrong, Marjolein Louwerse, Anna Pouliou | 01h 16m |
Law enforcement DPOs report concrete measures and gaps: timely involvement required by Article 41a is enforced as the strongest safeguard, Europol runs a team… | ||
| Generative AI in Academia Navigating Challenges and Opportunities... | Tal Zarsky, Eldar Haber, Nathalie Smuha, Paula Cipierre, Courtney Bowman | 01h 14m |
Panelists report concrete classroom and research effects: students use ChatGPT and Claude to summarize lectures and draft essays, reducing close reading… | ||
| The Law Enforcement Directive A Closer Look at the Current State... | Franziska Boehm, Eleni Kosta, Teresa Quintel, Juraj Sajfert, Nora Ni Loideain | 01h 17m |
European courts narrow LED interpretation by focusing on data minimization and retention rules: January 2024 case 118 of 22 rejects indefinite retention until… | ||
| Governing AI in Europe Advancing Fundamental Rights... | Marc Rotenberg, Anne-Charlotte Recker, Julia Apostle, Karolina Iwańska, Gregory Lewkowicz | 01h 17m |
EU AI Act moves from law to enforcement: data protection authorities are argued to be logical market surveillance authorities because AI systems usually… | ||
| Elevating AI Oversight the Crucial Role of Regulatory Sandboxes... | Nathan Genicot, Thiago Moraes, Moltzau Alex, Sophie Tomlinson, Sam Jungyun Choi | 01h 17m |
Each EU Member State must launch at least one sandbox by August 2026, with market surveillance authorities designated by August 2025 and data protection… | ||
| Risking Fundamental Rights The Myriad Ways of Risk in EU Law and Policy | Felix Bieker, Katherine Nolan, Irmak Erdoğan Peter, Aljosa Ajanovic Andelic, Isabel Barberá | 01h 06m |
Argues that EU law now treats everything as calculable risk—GDPR risk standard gives rise to DPIA/FRIA, DSA adds systemic risks, AI Act spans from… | ||
| Advertisement Intelligence by European Security Agencies | Thorsten Wetzling, Sharon Bradford Franklin, Judith Lichtenberg, Corbinian Ruckerbauer, Jan Ellermann | 01h 12m |
Explains how security agencies buy massive commercial datasets — 3.6 billion geolocation records for €13,000, ICE spent ~$2.8B on brokers, FBI paid ZeroFox… | ||
| From Food Commons to Data Spaces Shaping Data Governance... | Pia Groenewolt, Can Atik, Monja Sauvagerd, Elena Spolidoro, Seth van Hooland | 01h 15m |
Research shows agriculture embeds platform power in existing oligopolies: 12 expert interviews and 10 field observations reveal John Deere and Bayer tie… | ||
| EDPL Young Scholar Award | Bart van der Sloot, Franziska Boehm, Eleni Kosta, Wojciech Rafał Wiewiórowski | 01h 10m |
Panel showcases why GDPR enforcement matters: the Young Scholar award winner exposes a concrete tension in Article 32 GDPR, arguing that common tools like… | ||
| The Evolution of PETs in Digital Ads Genuine Privacy Innovation... | Kirsten Nelson-de Búrca, Graham Mudd, Vincenzo Tiani, Arletta Gorecka, Aymeric Pontvianne | 01h 13m |
Panel argues PETs can cut data exposure but often cement platform power: independent vendors build measurement systems that use trusted execution environments… | ||
| Back to Basics How Data Protection Principles Apply to AI Systems | Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna, Helena Koning, Valentina Pavel, Diarmuid Goulding, Irene Kamara | 01h 11m |
Covers how the EDPB opinion treats model parameters as potentially personal data and what technical steps (pseudonymisation, lifecycle mitigations, output… | ||
| Towards a Safe Harbour for Public Interest AI Research | Maximilian Gahntz, Julia Keseru, Esme Harrington, Martin Degeling | 01h 13m |
Panel argues that independent audits require concrete fixes: structured, multi‑tiered researcher access; legal safe harbours beyond voluntary clauses; and… | ||
| The use of AI by the Judiciary in LatAm Countries Hallucination or Opportunity? | Monika Zalnieriute, Pablo Trigo, Agneris Sampieri, María Pilar Llorens, Filipe Medon | 01h 24m |
Brazil already issues resolution 332 (2020) and updates it with resolution 615 (Mar 2025), deploys a Synapsis platform and the Vitória filter, and reports 140+… | ||
| Navigating the Interface Between the AI Act and GDPR Combining Innovation and .. | Leonardo Cervera Navas, Markus Wünschelbaum, Uljan Sharka, Ignasi Belda, Marietje Schaake | 01h 10m |
EU institutions take AI oversight into their own hands since August 2024 and regulators warn enforcement was underfunded under GDPR; row-level specifics: a… | ||
| Feeling ‘Unsafe’ in Online Spaces Young Peoples' Perspectives on Online Harms and .. | Yassine Chagh, Rita Costa Cots, Manon Baert, Stefi Richani, Luísa Franco Machado | 01h 13m |
Claims that blanket bans and mandatory ID checks (age verification) trade safety for surveillance and exclusion, harming privacy, participation and migrants'… | ||
| Emerging Patterns in EU Digital Regulation | Nora Ni Loideain, Karolina Mojzesowicz, Anu Talus, Matthias Spielkamp, Maximilian Von Grafenstein, Charly Helleputte | 01h 12m |
Panel documents persistent inconsistency between GDPR interpretation and newer laws, cites the DMA’s strict decision timetables and EDPB opinions on… | ||
| Bridging the Gap with PETs Governments' Opportunity to Lead on Innovation and Privacy | Rob van Eijk, Sarah Holland, Christian Reimsbach-Kounatze, Valda Beizitere | 01h 17m |
Private-sector pilots use differential privacy, federated learning, secure multi-party computation and TEEs but adoption stalls over costs, skills and… | ||
| Designed to Hook The Roots of Platform Addiction and Ways Forward | Evelyn Austin, Caroline Sinders, Romayne Gad el Rab, Kim van Sparrentak, Maryant Fernández | 01h 14m |
MEP-driven initiative argues EU needs a Digital Fairness Act that forces platforms to reverse burden of proof — companies must prove products aren’t addictive… | ||
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