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Carmela Troncoso explains the problems with voluntary monitoring and mandatory age verification in the European Council's proposed Chat Control legislation  more

Lin Kyi is one of the Google 2025 PhD Fellowship recipients

2025 Global Google PhD Fellowships recognize outstanding graduate students who are conducting exceptional and innovative research in computer science and related fields, specifically focusing on candidates who seek to influence the future of technology. more

Same internet, different worlds

New evidence reveals significant differences in how people understand and protect their digital security across the world more

Portrait of Tamalika Mukherjee

Mukherjee will establish a research group focused on the foundations of data privacy. Her research is rooted in the design and analysis of privacy-preserving algorithms within theoretical computer science, while also engaging with questions about fairness, accountability, and societal implications of AI systems and machine learning. more

In this diagram, each dot represents a Telegram account. A line indicates that an account has replicated a comment from another account with the same wording. The diagram shows that propaganda accounts (right) behave very differently to normal accounts (left). They create networks that repost the same content over and over again.

The new method is efficient, fast and inexpensive. This means that it could help moderators in the fight against disinformation on Telegram. more

group picture of the participants at the MPI-SP 2025 Symposium on Challenges in a Digitalised Society

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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