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In the article “The Unlikely Siblings in the GDPR Family: A Techno-Legal Analysis of Major Platforms in the Diffusion of Personal Data in Service Ecosystems” two privacy-invasive cases were examined in a techno-legal analysis. Here, the apparent actors and their responsibility were identified based on the GDPR. For this article, Christian Kurtz, Martin Semmann, and Tilo Böhmann used the IT perspective and Florian Wittner with Wolfang Schulz the legal view for the joint cooperation. It is particularly noteworthy that the article was nominated as “Best Paper” at the conference.

The symposium in Berlin on the topic “Information Governance of algorithmic decision-making systems” in the framework programme of the #INFORMATIK2018 was very well attended with more than 70 participants.

In addition to the lecture “Big Data, Algorithms and Regulation from an ethical point of view” from Prof. Dr. Judith Simon (Data Ethics Commission of the Federal Government/University of Hamburg), there were other interesting presentations such as “Algorithm-based pricing and protection of competition” by Achim Wambach (President of the Centre for European Affairs and Chairman of the German Monopoly Commission) as well as the lecture “Privacy Engineering” by Stefan Schiffner (Université du Luxembourg). This resulted in a very broad and interdisciplinary mix for the listeners.

Finally, following the presentations, there was a panel discussion on “Digital Development Debates-Responsibility and Governance in the Digital Realm” with international representatives such as Didier Nkurikiyimfura (smartafrica.org, Rwanda), Dev Lewis (Digital Asia Hub, Hong Kong, China) and Dr. Stefan Schiffner (Université du Luxembourg). There was also political participation with MinR Dr. Rudolf Gridl (Federal Ministry of Economics, Department of Internet Governance and International Digital Dialogue) as well as project participation with media researcher Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz (Hans Bredow Institute Hamburg).

The International Conference on Privacy, Security & Trust (PST) is an annual conference dedicated to everything in the field of cybersecurity. There are conference tracks for the three areas of privacy, security and trust. The paper (accepted for publication) “Privacy-Preserving Architectures with Probabilistic Guaranties” by Kai Bavendiek, Robin Adams and Sibylle Schupp describes the extension of an existing approach that – following the concept of “Privacy by Design” (PbD) – proposes a formal logic for proving privacy properties in software architectures. The extension focuses on non-deterministic or uncertain properties for which binary decisions are not sufficient. Probabilistic properties are proposed, which are demonstrated by a smart home case study.