21st IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management
Call for Papers, Workshops, and Tutorials
August 10-14, Leuven, Belgium
https://ifip-summerschool.org/
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The 21st IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management will take place at KU Leuven in Belgium. It aims to create a platform for spreading awareness and facilitating interactions and knowledge exchanges around old and new issues by taking a holistic approach to society and technology. We support interdisciplinary research exchange and foster discussions through keynote lectures, tutorials, and workshops. Participants will benefit from presenting their research and receiving meaningful feedback. The IFIP Summer School culminates in the publication of selected papers by the participants as an edited volume published by Springer.

This year's special theme is "Regulation and Innovation: Catalysts or Antagonists?", yet also submissions on other topics related to the schools scope are welcome.

More background information on the school is available on the conference website.

Submission:
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Submissions for the abstracts and workshop proposals need to be in English and must be submitted electronically.

Abstracts must be 2-4 pages long and follow the Springer LNCS style. Workshop proposals must be up to 2 pages and follow the Springer LNCS style. They must include a description of the topic, the expected participants, the types of activities to be carried out, the expected duration, and what support (facilities, infrastructure, etc.) might be needed from the Summer School.

The submission link is available here: https://ifip-summerschool.org/submission/

Important dates:
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- Abstracts Deadline: 30.04.2026 AoE
- Workshops and Tutorials Proposal Deadline: 30.04.2026 AoE
- Acceptance Decision: 05.06.2026
- Early bird registration Deadline: 10.07.2026 AoE
- Full Paper Deadline: 31.07.2026 AoE
- Summer School: 10.-14.08.2026

After the school, post-proceedings will be edited with the following time plan:
- Revised Full Paper Deadline: 25.09.2026 AoE
- Full Paper Feedback: 20.11.2026
- Camera Ready Deadline: 11.12.2026 AoE

Topics of interest
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Topics of interest, but are not limited to:

* Technical and Organisational Measures, Methods, and Tools for Privacy and Data Protection that address:
- Transparency and information provision to data subjects
- Intervenability and control over personal data
- Unlinkability and anonymization, including, e.g., EU Digital Identity Wallet
- Confidentiality in generative AI tools
- Accuracy in AI-generated personal data
- Integrity of generative models
- Explainability of AI models
- Purpose limitation in data processing
- Evaluation and performance assessment
- Trustworthiness and Privacy by Design
* Law, Regulation and Governance:
- Data Protection and/or privacy implications of recent political, legal and technological developments
- European and other legislation on data and data governance (Data Act, Data Governance Act, Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act, eIDAS II, Artificial Intelligence Act etc.) and the planned simplification thereof (Digital Omnibus Proposal)
- The interaction of data protection with liability regulation (product liability reform) and/or AI (AI Act)
- Governance institutions and policy processes, and regulatory bodies at different levels (e.g., national. regional, global)
- Data justice, data fairness and equality
- Digital human rights and accountability in technology and data practices
- Certification and standardisation and the interplay of standards and legislation
- Automated compliance and regulatory technology
* Effects and Impacts (negative or positive):
- Discriminatory effects of technology
- Technology-enabled social profiling and social exclusion
- Digital divides, digital dividends, data sovereignty
- Communities, societies, cultures, and technological mediation
- Data practices, AI, and the Global South
* Socio-Technical Perspectives:
- Awareness, attitudes, skills, and behavior of citizens and public and private organizations
- Approaches for diversity, non-discrimination and democratic enhancement
- Surveillance, surveillance pressures, chilling effects
- Critical perspectives on data practices
- Welfare, solidarity, and care
- Data economy and ecosystems, new business models
- Trade-offs, tensions and conflicts between participation in digital cultures and privacy aspects
- Historical development of data practices
- Training, awareness, and empowerment of end-users, focusing on educating and equipping them to recognize and address privacy issues in AI effectively

Why should I submit?
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Accepted papers will receive thorough discussions during the school and will allow students to publish their papers in the IFIP AICT series by Springer.

All individual members of IFIP member societies (over 40 national IT societies plus ACM and others) plus all members of IFIP Technical Committees and Working Groups are entitled to a discount of at least 10% on all registration fees.

A course certificate for 1,5 ECTS can be granted to students who attend the Summer School and write a short essay on how their research is relevant to or can be inspired by the Summer School sessions. A course certificate for 3 ECTS can be granted to students who attend the Summer School, submit and present an abstract for a research article, and demonstrate that they have addressed the feedback from the Summer School in an extended version or rebuttal.