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CPDP.ai 2025 Wednesday

date:2025-05-21
location:Brussels, Belgium
series:CPDP.ai Wednesday · 3 editions
editions:[CPDP.ai 2024, CPDP.ai 2025, CPDP.ai 2025 Wednesday]
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Artivism KeynoteFrederik De Wilde01h 14m
Artivism Keynote by CPDP.ai net-artist-in-residence Frederik De Wilde Frederik de Wilde is an artist whose practice spans visual art, media art, and…
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Artificial Intelligence for Early Detection and Diagnosis of Cervical CancerSejal Shah, Clarisa Sánchez Gutiérrez, Anastasia Karagianni01h 02m
Claims that CNNs and other deep learning models can flag precancerous and cancerous cervical cells from Pap-smear and whole‑slide images, plus HPV sequence…
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Databases and AI TrainingGeorgios Yannopoulos, Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich, Maria da Graça Canto, José Luis Piñar, Maria Biliri01h 06m
Panel argues that training needs large, auditable datasets and lists concrete mitigations: differential privacy, federated learning and vector stores for…
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Balancing Data Protection and Workplace Justice GDPR’s Role in Employee Rights ..Irmak Erdoğan Peter, Nikos Papadopoulos, Larisa Munteanu, Eva King, Aída Ponce Del Castillo01h 21m
GDPR shows concrete limits: enforcement is sparse—below 50 complaints in most countries and DPA procedures take 3–4 years—even big platform cases (Uber…
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The Transformation of EU Cybersecurity LawNiovi Vavoula, Elaine Fahey, Marco Almada, Suzanne Nusselder, Laura Brodahl01h 12m
EU law now layers a slew of concrete instruments — NIS directive (2016), Cybersecurity Act, Cyber Resilience Act, Cyber Solidarity Act and DORA (Digital…
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Correcting Wrong AI Data Can the Right to Rectification be of Help?Andreas Häuselmann, Gloria González Fuster, Kleanthi Sardeli, Stephanie Rossello, Anouk Focquet01h 18m
Panel argues Article 16 can cover AI-generated assessments and opinions, but enforcement is messy: two live NOYB complaints against OpenAI (one about Max…
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Common EU Data Spaces: Fundamental Rights, Competition & Innovation Digital...Georgiana Mirza, Paola Cardozo Solano, Johan Keetelaar, Anna Colom, Alberto Di Felice01h 18m
Panel argues EU builds over 10 sectoral data spaces (health most advanced) with the European Health Data Space entered into force 25 March but warns the policy…
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Global Perspectives of Regulating Genetic Data in Scientific Research: Beyond Privacy?Andrea Martani, Paul Quinn, Ruoxin Su, Johanna Rahnasto, Róisín Costello01h 11m
23andMe sells its database for about $200m after bankruptcy, sparking calls for deletion despite prior consent; forensic labs use population databases to…
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Aligning Cybersecurity Information Sharing with the European Data Protection FrameworkSuzanne Nusselder, Lokke Moerel, Renate Verheijen, Pier Giorgio Chiara, Niovi Vavoula01h 09m
EU law (NIS2, DORA, CRA) increases mandatory and voluntary incident/vulnerability reporting but leaves Member States wide discretion, creating legal gaps over…
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Effective Transparency and User Controls: Are We Close to a Breakthrough?Anja Wyrobek, Christina Michelakaki, Felix Mikolasch, Max von Grafenstein, Malte Beyer-Katzenberger01h 19m
Panel argues a concrete path: implement the ADPC header and a user-side consent agent (browser extension) that stores preset preferences, hands them to sites…
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Bias, Discrimination and Data Protection in the Age of GPAIJacopo Ciani Sciolla, Bart van der Sloot, Raphaële Xenidis, Monica Senor, Stefaan Verhulst01h 17m
A panel documents that general‑purpose AI models trained on massive scraped and first‑party corpora — for example Meta training on Facebook/Instagram…
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Empirical methods fairer AI - Auditing a Dutch public sector risk profiling algorithmJurriaan Parie, Marie Beth van Egmond, Brent Mittelstadt, Carlos Mougan, Ylja Remmits01h 21m
Audit of a Dutch education risk‑profiling pipeline uses aggregated population statistics (300k+ students) and GitHubed code to show a jump from 22%…
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Strengthening trust in computing technologies for detecting illegal deception onlineClaudia Negri Ribalta, Arianna Rossi, Vincent Toubiana, Stefan Schauer, Trushant Mehta01h 15m
A team reports building a browser extension, curating a new dataset and running LLMs with retrieval augmented generation to detect dark patterns; existing…
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Modelling Privacy Threats of Medical Data and Health Data SpacesThorsten Strufe, Franziska Boehm, Dominique Schroeder, Kim Wuyts, Isabel Wagner01h 12m
Panel argues medical data sharing risks are concrete: a recent Australian breach leaked names and photos of breast cancer patients, foundation models can…
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Closing the Digital Backdoor Strengthening Vulnerability Management to Combat SpywareLuzie Neyenhuys, Sven Herpig, Sophie in ‘t Veld, Lori Roussey, Anna Buchta01h 20m
Unpatched flaws keep enabling Pegasus‑style intrusions; most exploit chains are common, unpatched bugs rather than exotic zero‑days, yet governments still…
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Out of Alignment Conflicting Trends in the Governance of Advanced Artificial ..Fanny Hidvegi, Shazeda Ahmed, Gerald Hopster, Roel Dobbe, Iverna McGowan01h 12m
Panel catalogs concrete clashes: national AI oversight bodies and a rights agenda collide with pro-innovation and ideological pushes from effective altruism…
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AI Governance in Africa Bridging Trust, Ethics, Equity and RegulationTami Koroye, Karine Caunes, Yomi Ajibade, Melody Musoni, Mercy King'ori01h 20m
Panelists argue Africa needs bottom‑up, rights‑first AI rules and regional bargaining power, citing the African Commission study on AI and human rights as a…
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Navigating regulatory complexities Enforcing data protection in the field of AIFanny Coudert, Gaëtan Goldberg, Milla Vidina, Sven Stevenson01h 14m
Panel documents concrete enforcement practices: audits of the French Parkour soup admissions algorithm that triggered joint guidance with the Defender of…
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Academic Session I The GDPR within a continuously reforming digital environmentManos Roussos, Nicola Leschke, David Michels, Thiago Guimaraes Moraes, Emmanouil Bougiakiotis01h 15m
Four papers compare GDPR to new rules and real-world limits: a technical process model maps GDPR portability to the Data Act’s continuous real-time data access…
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Towards the Digital Fairness Act How to Better Protect People from Harmful ..Urs Buscke, Maria-Myrto Kanellopoulou, Simona De Heer, Ilya Bruggeman, Frithjof Michaelsen01h 13m
Fitness check shows concrete harms: 90% of popular sites use dark patterns, 60–66% of consumers see fake scarcity, 42% click a control and get a different…
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AI Act in Action Compliance, Oversight, and EnforcementMirko Tobias Schäfer, Angela Müller, Arnika Zinke, Katja Mayer, Rob Heyman01h 08m
Panel argues the AI Act faces an enforcement, capacity and clarity crisis: member states still lack market surveillance and oversight authorities, article 6…
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A Stress Test for the EU’s Digital Rule Book Ensuring AI Governance is Grounded ..Corinne Cath, Kai Zenner, Seda Gürses, Maria-Luisa Stasi, Maria Donde01h 15m
Europe is shifting regulatory weight toward competitiveness and away from rights, pushing an AI Liability Directive withdrawal while relying on a voluntary AI…
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Future of social media what’s the recipe for pluralism, long term user value ..Katarzyna Szymielewicz, Alissa Cooper, Ian BROWN, Marc Faddoul, Ulrik Lyngs01h 14m
A multi-platform experiment runs 21 prototype algorithms, selects five and uses a custom browser extension reordering top 50 results on X Facebook and Reddit…
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The UN’s New Cybercrime Convention A Boon to Law Enforcement or a Danger to ..Kenneth Propp, Ignacio Gomez Navarro, Elonnai Hickok, DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo, Jan Kralik01h 15m
The UN Convention obliges state parties to criminalize a set of cyber‑dependent offenses and to provide expedited preservation, production, traffic‑data…
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Fundamental Rights Impact Assessments under the EU AI Act Who, What, and HowOreste Pollicino, Lokke Moerel, Yordanka Ivanova, Neil Richards, Andrea Cosentini, Federica Paolucci01h 17m
Panel proposes a concrete FRIA method combining a questionnaire + matrix: a 6‑section multiple‑choice questionnaire yields a single risk indicator, and a…
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The Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence How Generative AI Threat ThreatensMatthias Spielkamp, Jill McArdle, Fanny Hidvegi, Claude Turmes, Boris Ruf01h 19m
Panel shows evidence that generative AI is already reshaping power systems: a Lawrence Berkeley Lab estimate says by 2028 AI uses more than half of data center…
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How to Reconcile Data Protection, Resilience and Cybersecurity Goals in Today's ..Lorelien Hoet, Michael Aendenhof, Alexandre Ferreira Gomes, Valerie Höss, Chiara Manfredini, Andres Raieste01h 16m
Argues that European digital policy must stop at slogans and adopt concrete measures: curb dependence on the US cloud oligopoly after the ICC sanction forced…
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The DSA as a tool in the fight against gender based violenceGloria González Fuster, Asha Allen, Elisabetta Stringhi, Aleksandra Kuczerawy, Farieha Aziz01h 15m
The panel shows the DSA producing first risk assessment reports in November but hitting structural limits: a 45 million user threshold excludes many harmful…
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Assessing Fundamental Rights Risks of AI Opportunities and Challenges AheadAlyson Kilpatrick, Kilian Gross, Hanne Juncher, Sirpa Rautio, Wojciech Rafał Wiewiórowski01h 15m
The session explains concrete legal tools and workflows: the EU AI Act imposes risk management obligations on providers and deployers and an Article 27…
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Privacy and New TechnologiesPeter Kimpian, Anamarija Mladinić, Marcello Ienca, Murielle Popa-Fabre, Cathal McDermott, Emma Redmond01h 17m
Council of Europe committees draft concrete guidelines: LLM risk framework covering model development, deployment, user interaction, autonomous agents and…
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Responding to Digital Responsibility Turning Entropy into GovernanceTrevor Hughes, Aura Salla, Thomas Le Goff, Sylvie de Oliveira, Gaia Marcus, Eduardo Ustaran01h 10m
Panel argues that regulatory entropy is real and escalating: 10% to 82% of the global population now covered by data protection in five years, Europe hosts 100…
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Grande Halle - Opening RemarksPaul De Hert12m
Eighteen years in, the conference runs three days with nearly 150 panels and more than 500 international speakers, adds a DPO track tomorrow and a…
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