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Next Security in Times of Surveillance will be on 6 June at Eindhoven University of Technology @TUEindhoven@mastodon.world
Watch https://eipsi.win.tue.nl/surveillance.html for more information

We've posted the tentaive program for next week Friday. Please register soon so that we can arrange catering . See https://eipsi.win.tue.nl/surveillance.html for details

We will be streaming talks, incl in-oerson talks, via our YouTube channe. See https://eipsi.win.tue.nl/surveillance.html for the link. To ask questions please reply here on mastodon to the respective toot for that talk.

Registration is open for this year's edition of Security in Times of Surveillance which will take place on 6 June 2025 at Eindhoven University of Technology.
https://eipsi.win.tue.nl/surveillance.html

We're excited to announce our first batch of invited speakers:

Julia Angwin @Julia@journa.host
Chloé Berthélémy @chlobemy@mamot.fr Senior Policy Advisor EDRi
Maarten Hundscheid (Totem Game Dev)
Katharina Kohls (Ruhr University Bochum)
Savio Sciancalepore (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Floor Terra @floort@mastodon.social Advisor at Privacy Company

Stay tuned for the full program to come out in the next few days.

The next two editions of the Crypto Working Group will be on 5 Sep (next Fri) and 28 Nov. Details to come soon at https://eipsi.win.tue.nl/seminars_cwg.html
Location is as always the Kargadoor in Utrecht.

Program for next Ei/Ψ crypto working group on 23 May is out with talks by Vahid Jahandideh, Jelle Vos, Monika Trimoska, and Thijs Veugen.
See https://eipsi.win.tue.nl/cwg/20250523.txt for titles and abstracts.

We are aware that the Dutch railways have canceled all domestic trains for this Friday. We''re working on adding some option for remote attendance/talk streaming and will notify here when we have more. For those who can make it to Eindhoven: we will host the in-person event and there will be food (probably more than needed ...)

Ready, set, go! Program for next Friday is up at https://www.win.tue.nl/eipsi/surveillance.html and registration is still open.
We need to fix the meal order tomorrow (yes, free lunch included). Please register soon.
Shoutouts to
@bpreneel@infosec.exchange @patrick_breyer_mep @echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social
@xot@someone.elses.computer
@oec@mathstodon.xyz
@its_bochum@infosec.exchange

Please ask questions here for the talk of Floor Terra "International transfers of personal data"
@floort@mastodon.social

Can't wait till 6 june for your next event? We'll host the Crypto Working Group on 23 May in Utrecht, watch https://eipsi.win.tue.nl/seminars_cwg.html for more details or register to our mailing list.

Please ask questions here for the talk by Tianxin Tang "Privacy-Enhancing Technologies in the Real World"

Please post here your questions on the talk by Julia Angwin "Threat Modeling for Techno-Authoritarianism" @Julia@journa.host

Please post talks here about the talk by Chloé Berthélémy "The EU's role in the Crypto Wars: policies, practices and political agenda"

Please post questions here about the talk by Maarten Hundscheid "The Eye: Teaching about FRT"

Please ask questions here for the talk of Katharina Kohls "Hope of Delivery: Extracting User Locations From Mobile Instant Messengers"

we're live again, next talk starting soon.

Please ask questions here for the talk by Savio Sciancalepore "Identifying RF Devices via Wireless Signals: Opportunities, Threats and Mitigations"

The program for the next CWG (29 Nov) is up
Location: Kargadoor, Oudegracht 36, Utrecht
talks: https://eipsi.win.tue.nl/cwg/20241129-schedule.txt

Next Ei/Ψ Crypto Working Group on Fri (29 Nov) in Utrecht. Save the date!

Ei/Ψ Crypto Working Group this Fri (13 Sep) in Utrecht features talks by Suprita Talnikar, Divya Ravi, Sven Schäge, and Silvia Ritsch.
See https://win.tue.nl/eipsi/seminars_cwg.html for titles and abstracts

We've posted links to slides and the YouTube videos for the "Security in Times of Surveillance" event, see https://www.win.tue.nl/eipsi/surveillance.html Working on the videos we recorded locally will take a bit longer.

If you liked the crypto-heavier talks, you might also like our Crypto Working Group. The next one is 21 June in Utrecht (nor registration, no online option). For details see https://www.win.tue.nl/eipsi/seminars_cwg.html