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The MPI-SP 2025 Symposium on Challenges in a Digitalised Society brought together experts from security, privacy, law, demography, and many other disciplines to explore critical issues such as algorithmic accountability, digital inequality, and data governance.
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Systems security expert Thorsten Holz joins the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy in July. His research focuses on improving the resilience of complex software systems against emerging threats, enabling the development of robust and secure architectures that are essential for building trustworthy digital systems. Holz is widely recognized not only for his work on software security but also for applying his research to solve real-world problems, such as improving memory safety or understanding how humans interact with systems. more

Over 80% of MPI-SP’s Faculty are also part of the CASA Excellence Cluster, making CASA one of the main research partners of MPI-SP. Yesterday, the German Research Foundation (DFG) announced that CASA will receive another 7 years of funding. more

The CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems takes place this year from April 26^th to May 1^st in Yokohama, Japan. Scientists from MPI-SP are presenting several studies at this event covering a broad range of topics from contact tracing to Virtual Reality advertising. more

In automated software testing, computer scientists employ automatic tools such as fuzzers to detect security flaws. But how long should the fuzzers test the software to guarantee that there are no bugs? Scientists at MPI-SP come up with a mathematical calculation based on probabilities. more

Until February 2025, Alessandro Fabris was a postdoctoral researcher in the Responsible Computing Group at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy. In March, he began the next chapter of his career as an assistant professor at the University of Trieste. Before he left, Alessandro answered a few questions about his time at the institute and his experience in Germany. more

Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights refers to an individual’s right to be protected against interference with their privacy. The increasing adoption of AI in all disciplines threatens that right. Last month, privacy experts from around the world were joined by legal scholars, policy experts, and policy regulators at a Dagstuhl seminar to develop an evaluation framework for Privacy Enhancing Technologies that can be adopted worldwide. more