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ATHENE publishes white paper on the CRA
Connected products are to become more secure across the EU - that is the aim of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), an EU regulation that is currently being voted on and is expected to come into force this year. In our latest whitepaper, our researchers address the latest version of the CRA draft and explain which companies and products are likely to be subject to which obligations.
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Accepted papers at the EACL 2024
ATHENE researcher Prof. Iryna Gurevych presented seven papers at the 8th Conference of the European Chapter of the Associations for Computational Linguistics, EACL for short. Two of them were directly related to her research work in the ATHENE research project "Fake News and Conspiracy Theories" from the research area Secure Digital Transformation in Health Care ( SeDiTraH). EACL is one of the leading European conferences in the field of computational linguistics covering a broad spectrum of research areas that are concerned with computational approaches to natural language.
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Prof. Iryna Gurevych becomes a member of the Leopoldina
Prof. Iryna Gurevych from TU Darmstadt has been appointed to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. This gives her one of the highest scientific honors that a German institution can bestow, as the world's oldest permanently existing academy of natural sciences unites only researchers with outstanding scientific achievements under its roof. With around 1.600 members, it provides independent, science-based political advice on future social issues and represents German science abroad. New members undergo a strict, multi-stage selection process.
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ATHENE position paper calls for data protection precautions
Cybersecurity researchers are often unable to comply with data protection regulations because they do not know before the start of a research activity whether and what personal data they will be processing. Our data protection experts have therefore formulated a proposed addition to the GDPR. Their concern: The legally binding introduction of data protection precautions that take unplanned data access into account.
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ATHENE CEO appointed as Editor-in-Chief of ACM TOPS
The ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), one of the most established and renowned scientific journals in the field of cybersecurity and privacy technology, has appointed ATHENE Director Prof. Michael Waidner as Editor-in-Chief. His term runs from February 1, 2024 to January 31, 2027.
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