Crossposting for an EU project that we're running. Sorry for the late notice, but you can still register (but please do so now so that we get catering for you)

‪PQCSA‬
How will post-quantum cryptography reshape privacy? PQCSA hosts a workshop on “Privacy in the Post-Quantum Era: Challenges and Migration Strategies” ahead of #CPDP.
📅 May 19 | Brussels
✅ Free
👉 Info & registration: https://cryptoexperts.com/pqcsa-workshop-2026/

PQCSA Workshop 2026

Just took my #CPDP ticket for this year! 🎉

I am so excited about going there for the second time! 🙀

For once, being a student again is totally worth it!

I enjoyed last week’s big annual privacy conference in Brussels (#CPDP), as usual. It’s the best place to hear about the latest research and policy action, and to talk in person to many experts in the field.

The new venue is great — spacious and green. My fondness for the old one has been rather damaged by being assaulted near it yesterday, on the way for a lunchtime swim (which helps hugely with the at-times agonising spinal injury I’ve had for the last month) 

A conference on digital society sponsored by Google & Tiktok?
@republica and #CPDP do exactly that. We think Big Tech sponsoring should have no place there. Instead of accepting Google sponsorship, let's build up pressure jointly to break up Google.
https://www.lobbycontrol.de/macht-der-digitalkonzerne/das-google-monopol-zerschlagen-120865/
Jetzt Appell unterschreiben: Google zerschlagen!

Google missbraucht seine Monopolstellung und beutet unsere Daten aus. Die EU kann den Konzern zerschlagen und damit unsere Demokratie schützen!

LobbyControl
This week's net.wars, "Dangerous corner", goes to CPDP and finds that privacy issues have expanded to include the electrical grid and farming. "Simplify!" says the EU. For whose benefit? https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/05/23/dangerous-corner/ #NetWars #privacy #HumanRights #CPDP
Dangerous corner

This year's Computers. Privacy, and Data Protection conference arrived at a crossroads moment. The European Commission, wanting to compete to "win the AI race",

net.wars
Unsere Kritik am Big Tech Sponsoring für die Datenschutzkonferenz #CPDP in Brüssel wirkt: Am Freitag wird es erste interne Diskussionen über das Sponsoring geben.
Hier weitere Infos zur Kritik am Big Tech Sponsoring der CPDP:
https://www.lobbycontrol.de/pressemitteilung/cpdp-2025-big-tech-sponsoring-untergraebt-integritaet-von-eu-datenschutzkonferenz-121188/
CPDP 2025: Big Tech Sponsoring untergräbt Integrität von EU-Datenschutzkonferenz

Anlässlich der jährlich in Brüssel stattfindenden CPDP-Konferenz zu Datenschutz und Privatsphäre kritisieren LobbyControl und Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) das Sponsoring der Veranstaltung durch Big-Tech-Konzerne wie Microsoft, Google und TikTok.

LobbyControl
Konrad Kollnig, Maastricht University, shares that we need more public servants to be in touch with the IT implementation sector, in order to represent public interest values. #CPDP
I am totally astonished by Nathalie Smuha, from KU Leuven Faculty of Law, as she shares how algorithmic regulation in the public sector erodes the rule of law, based on the book she published. #CPDP
tomorrow i will be with @dasha at #CPDP in Brussels. We will attend some conferences before going live on Avatar.fm on dublab.de at 17.30 for some critical and cylical reaction talk >>> https://www.cpdpconferences.org/avatar-fm :))