Launch of 5th edition of CNIL-Inria Privacy Award

Changed on 06/07/2020

The third edition of the CNIL (the French Data Protection Authority) and Inria "Privacy Protection" Award is launched. This European prize recognizes scientific papers on the subject of data protection and privacy. Within the framework of the partnership agreement signed in 2011 between Inria and the CNIL, the prize will serve to promote research on data protection. It will raise awareness throughout the scientific community of the need to develop research projects related to these subjects.

The prize-winning papers must have been written, at least in part, as a result of research at a European research centre and published between January 2018 and June 2020. Possible topics include (without limitation):

Privacy by design
Algorithm transparency
Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs)
Anonymisation
Privacy risk analysis
Control on personal data
Accountability
Technical challenges and solutions to implement the GDPR

The jury will be made up of several members in privacy and data protection and, co-organised by two co-presidents, Nataliia Bielova (Inria, PRIVATICS team) and Francois Pellegrini (CNIL) with two vice-presidents of the jury, Nicolas Anciaux (Inria, PETRUS team) and Felicien Vallet (CNIL). The prize-winner(s) will be invited to the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference in January 2021, where they will receive their trophies.

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Inria "Privacy Protection" Award