This site currently consists of:
- a list of privacy-related conference announcements, Table 1, and
- a presentation in German on digital standards and international institutions setting standards for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), related to a work in progress, Table 2
Table 1
| Date (newest on top) | Privacy-related event | Venue | |
| 2024 Oct 17-18 | Jahreskonferenz 2024: Freiheit in digitalen Infrastrukturen | Berlin | |
| 2024 Oct 28-Nov 01 | Global Privacy Assembly (GPA) | Jersey, Channel Islands | |
| 2024 Oct 08-11 | Freedom Not Fear | Brussels | |
| 2024 Oct 01 | Tech and Society By invitation only; follow developments on EDRi mailing list | Brussels | |
| 2024 Sep 19 | Soziale Medien und Datenschutz – wie geht das zusammen?, in German, featuring presentations on the Fediverse | Online | |
| 2024 Jun 06-07 | PublicSpaces Conference 2024 | Amsterdam | |
| 2024 May 22-24 | CPDP 2024 | Brussels | |
| 2023 Dec 27 | CCC highlight: Please Identify Yourself! Digital Identity Systems in the EU & around the world Thomas Lohninger and Udbhav Tiwari. | Hamburg | |
| Submit applications by 2023 Oct 02 | StandICT Supporting European Experts Presence in International Standardisation Activities in ICT | ||
| 2024 Jan 24 | Privacy Camp (proposals) | Brussels | |
| 2023 Sep 21-22 | Beyond Data Protection Conference: Regulating Information and Protection against Risks of the Digital Society | Utrecht | |
| 2023 Sep 01-04 | Freedom Not Fear | Brussels | |
| 2023 Jun 19-23 | Summer Academy For Global Privacy Law 2023 From Data Access to Data Transformations: How to Govern Data in the Age of Analytics and AI |
Brussels | |
| 2023 May 31-June 01 | MyData | Helsinki | |
| 2023 May 24-26 | CPDP2023 – Ideas That Drive Our Digital World | Brussels | |
| 2023 Jan 26 | Privacy Camp | Brussels and online | |
| 2022 Sept 02–05 | Freedom not Fear 2022 | Brussels | |
| 2022 July 22-26 | May Contain Hackers 2022 | The Netherlands | |
| 2022 Jun 22-24 | Annual Privacy Forum of regulators | Warsaw | |
| 2022 Jun 21 | IPEN Workshop | Warsaw | |
| 2022 Jun 21 | MyData 2022 — Catalysing Fair Data Solutions | Helsinki | |
| 2022 Jun 16-17 | The Future of Data Protection: Effective Enforcement in the Digital World, EDPS | Brussels | |
| 2022 Jun 04 | Tübinger Tag der digitalen Freiheit | Tuebingen | |
| 2022 Jun 01-03 | Surveillance Studies | Rotterdam | |
| 2022 Jan 28 | International Data Protection Day and the Data Protection Law Scholars Network conference | online | |
| 2022 Jan 23-25 | Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) | Brussels | |
| 2022 Jan 25 | Privacy Camp | Brussels | |
| 2021 Nov 21 | Freedom Not Fear | online only | |
| 2021 Jun 07-11 | Rightscon | online | |
| 2021 Jan 27-29 | Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) | Brussels | |
| 2021 Jan 26 | Privacy Camp | online | |
| 2020 Nov 06-09 | Freedom Not Fear | online | |
| 2020 Nov 02-06 | Internet Governance Forum with improved Website | Katowice, Poland | |
| 2020 Oct 24 | 75th anniversary of the United Nations | New York | |
| 2020 Oct 18-21 | United Nations World Data Forum on Sustainable Development Data (UN World Data Forum) | Bern, Switzerland | |
| 2020 Sep 20-23 | IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management. rescheduled, and held in conjunction with IFIP SEC 2020 | Maribor, Slovenia, or virtually | |
| 2020 Aug 17-21 | IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management: rescheduled, and held in conjunction with IFIP SEC 2020 | rescheduled | |
| 2020 Jul 27-31 | Rights Con (register by July 20th) | free, online | |
| 2020 Jul 25-31 | European Summer School on Internet Governance (Euro-SSIG) | Meissen, Germany | |
| 2020 Jun 22-26 | Summer Academy for Global Privacy Law 2020: Confronting the New Challenges | exclusively remotely | |
| 2020 Jun 10 | Pan-European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) | exclusively remotely | |
| 2020 May 7 | Re:publica | free, online | |
| 2020 Jan 22-24 | Computers Privacy and Data Protection | Brussels | |
| 2020 Jan 21 | Privacy Camp including annual EDPS Civil Society Summit | Brussels | |
| 2019 Nov 25-29 | Internet Governance Forum | Berlin | |
| 2019 Nov 25 | Internet Commons Forum | Berlin | |
| 2019 Nov 23 | Linux Presentation Day | Tuebingen and elsewhere | |
| 2019 Nov 14-16 | Bundesweite Aktionstage für Netzpolitik & Demokratie (German Campaign Days for Internet Policy and Democracy) | throughout Germany | |
| 2019 Nov 08-11 | Freedom Not Fear | Brussels | |
| 2019 Sep 25-27 | Fourth annual conference of the MyData Global network (call for presentations) | Helsinki, Finland | |
| 2019 Sep 13 | “Das ist Netzpolitik!”-Konferenz 2019 featuring Lessig (in English), Gerhart Baum, Jeanette Hofmann and Maja Goepel | Berlin | |
| 2019 Aug 19-23 | IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management 2019, Data for Better Living: AI and Privacy | Brugg/Windisch, Switzerland | |
| 2019 Jul 14-20 | European Summer School on Internet Governance (Euro-SSIG) based on video lecture by Kleinwaechter | Meissen, Germany | |
| 2019 Jun 3-5 | Internet and Jurisdiction Policy Network as per Wikipedia | Berlin | |
| 2019 May 30-Jun 02 | Gulaschprogrammiernacht , history of event (in German), explanation of 2018 version in English | Karlsruhe, Germany | |
| 2019 May 17-25 | Privacy Week Stuttgart
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Stuttgart | |
| 2019 Apr 06 | Cryptoparty | Tuebingen, Germany | |
| 2019 Mar 07 | RSA Session on Changing Academia featuring Deirdre Mulligan, Latanya Sweeney, and Danny Weitzner inter alia | San Francisco | |
| 2019 Feb 11-14 | Trust and Internet Identity Meeting Europe (TIIME) | Vienna | |
| 2019 Jan 30 – Feb 01 | Computers, Privacy, Data Protection | Brussels | |
| 2019 Jan 29 | Privacy Camp | Brussels | |
| 2018 Nov 23-24 | „Mensch bleiben im Maschinenraum“ (Staying Human in the Machine Room) featuring Michael Schmidt-Salomon | Stuttgart | |
| 2018 Nov 16 | A WTO fit for the 21st century What needs to change? featuring Azevedo and Malmström | Paris | |
| 2018 Nov 15 | CWI Lectures on privacy & security featuring Rotenberg and Camenisch inter alia | Amsterdam | |
| 2018 Nov 12-14 | Internet Governance Forum IGF18 (analysis published later “IGF18: Deliver Us From Multilateral Internet Governance” by Farzaneh Badii) | Paris | |
| 2018 Nov 12 | Govtech (featuring Trudeau) | Paris | |
| 2018 Nov 10 | Linux Presentation Day (in German) | throughout Germany | |
| 2018 Oct 11-12 | Interdisziplinäre Konferenz des Forum Privatheit: Zukunft der Datenökonomie – Gestaltungsperspektiven zwischen Geschäftsmodell, Kollektivgut und Verbraucherschutz (Future of the Data Economy, in German), featuring Lovink, Spiekermann and Zuboff | Munich | |
| 2018 Sep 28 | European Data Ethics Forum 2018 | Copenhagen | |
| 2017 Sep 21-24 | Freedom Not Fear | Brussels | |
| 2018 Sep 21 | “This is Netzpolitik” Conference | Berlin | |
| 2018 Aug 29-31 | MyData | Helsinki | |
| 2018 Jul 02-05 | Motion for a Resolution on US/EU Privacy Shield expected to be voted on in the European Parliament’s July Plenary session per Linklater’s | Strasbourg | |
| 2018 Jun 15-17 | No-spy (in German) | Stuttgart | |
| 2018 Jun 09 | Tuebix (in German) | Tuebingen | |
| 2018 May 25 | on or around that date, i.e. when the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect: GDPR Days | various venues | |
| 2018 May 15-18 | European Identity & Cloud Conference 2018, a commercial event including sessions on Identity Governance in the Light of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Self Sovereign Identity (SSI) | Munich | |
| 2018 May 04 | Free and Safe in CyberSpace | Berlin | |
| 2018 May 03 | Persönliche digitale Archive – Wie organisiere ich mein digitales Vermächtnis? (German: Personal digital archives — How should I organize my digital heritage?) | Stuttgart | |
| 2018 Apr 14 | March for Science | Stuttgart | |
| 2018 Mar 02-04 | Blockstack including hackathon | Berlin | |
| 2018 Feb 26-28 | Internet and Jurisdiction Policy Network | Ottawa | |
| 2018 Feb 19-23 | Secure Application Development with inter alia Bart Preneel | Leuven | |
| 2018 Feb 07-08 | Trust and Internet Identity Meeting Europe | Vienna | |
| 2018 Jan 24-26 | Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP): the Internet of Bodies, presentations online | Brussels | |
| 2018 Jan 23 | Privacy Camp. “CPDP is an organising partner of the annual NGO event, Privacy Camp. This event provides civil society actors the space to engage with other individuals and institutions and not-for-profit organisations.” Programme, videos | Brussels | |
| 2018 Jan 22-23 | ECRYPT-CSA Workshop on Crypto Policies | Brussels | |
| 2017 Dec 27-31 | Chaos Computer Congress 34C3, Thomas Ruddy’s session is documented in PDFormat here. | Leipzig, Germany | |
| 2017 Dec 18-21 | 12th Internet Governance Forum with preparatory work on platforms and data ownership by Joe McNamee/ Maryant Fernandez and Rolf Weber respectively | Geneva | |
| 2017 Dec 07 | Yearly Conference of the Privacy and Identity Lab with guest keynoter Ron Deibert | Utrecht | |
| 2017 Nov 30- Dec 01 | Digital Infrastructures for Research 2017 “Connecting the building blocks for Open Science” | Brussels | |
| 2017 Nov 29 | Datentag (in German) data portability with inter alia Max Schrems | Berlin | |
| 2017 Nov 29 | eID workshop requiring comments by 10 November 2017. Doubts raised by EDRi. Results of earlier session on related topic. |
Brussels | |
| 2017 Nov 27-29 | Consumer Identity World Europe 2017 | Paris | |
| 2017 Nov 24-26 | International GNU Health Conference | Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | |
| 2017 Nov 10-11 | The People’s Disruption: Platform Co-ops for Global Challenges featuring inter alia Ulrich Genick of MIDATA.coop | New York | |
| 2017 Nov 10 | A transatlantic workshop dedicated to Privacy Engineering Research hosted by the Internet Privacy Engineering Network (IPEN/EDPS), the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), and the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF). Attendance free, but subject to application approval. Applications were due by 24 September, 2017. | Leuven | |
| 2017 Nov 06-09 | IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2017 consisting of
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Brussels | |
| 2017 Nov 06 | The 2017 Brussels Privacy Symposium, this year entitled AI Ethics: The Privacy Challenge hosted by the Free Univ. of Brussels, the Brussels Privacy Hub and the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) | Brussels | |
| 2017 Oct 25 | Towards a European Ecosystem for Healthcare Data featuring inter alia Ernst Hafen (ETH Zürich) of MIDATA.coop Conference report in PDF now available. | Brussels | |
| 2017 Oct 23-29 | International Open Access Week, Theme of 2017, “Open in order to…” | Everywhere | |
| 2017 Oct 14-22 | Fellbacher Weltwochen 2017, week on global issues including FOSSoftware (in German) | Stuttgart | |
| 2017 Oct 11 | Public Sector Digital Transformation – From the Tallinn Declaration to a borderless government | Brussels | |
| 2017 Oct 06-09 | Freedom Not Fear with keynote by Aral Balkan and session on privacy in e-governance | Brussels | |
| 2017 Sep 29 | European Data Ethics Forum 2017 | Copenhagen | |
| 2017 Sep 25-27 | Identity World in conjunction with World e-ID & Cybersecurity as part of Smart Security Week | Marseille | |
| 2017 Sep 19 | Privacy Conference Dare [to Take] the Leap! featuring Jan Philipp Albrecht | Berlin | |
| 2017 Aug 30-Sep 01 | Mydata 2017 | Tallinn, Finland | |
| 2017 Aug 04-08 | Dutch outdoor hacker camp/conference SHA 2017 (for the 8th time, acronym meaning Secure_Hash_Algorithm) | Zeewolde/ Amsterdam | |
| 2017 Jul 07-09 | Discover the Bluedot | Cheshire, UK | |
| 2017 Jul 07-08 | G-20 official site, G-20 in Focus (portal set up by Green foundation) | Hamburg | |
| 2017 Jul 03-06 | 6th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | |
| 2017 Jul 01-02 | “Das Recht (in) der digitalen Welt: Zwischen Algorithmen, autonomen Systemen und Disruption” | Berlin | |
| 2017 Jun 26-30 | 2nd European Data Protection Law Summer School: “The GDPR is Now” The BPH Summer School | Brussels | |
| 2017 Jun 22-23 | Abendveranstaltung Symposium “Von Profiling bis Fake News” und Praxisworkshop “Fake News?” | Berlin | |
| 2017 Jun 22-23 | Data Power 2017 with inter alia Helen Nissenbaum and Frank Pasquale | Ottawa | |
| 2017 Jun 22-23 | Workshop on “Global Governance in the Internet Era”, Hertie School of Governance | Berlin | |
| 2017May 29-30 | Think 20 Summit Global Solutions featuring inter alia Lamy, Reding, Sachs, Steiner and Stern, in anticipation of the G-20 Summit in July | Berlin (+ summit livestream) | |
| 2017May 19-21 | European Investigative Journalism Conference & Dataharvest, #EIJC17, @journalismfund.eu | Mechelen, Belgium | |
| 2017May 19-21 | no-spy barcamp (in German) | Stuttgart | |
| 2017May 17-19 | Conference TILTing Perspectives 2017: ‘Regulating a connected world’ | Tilburg, the Netherlands | |
| 2017May 10-12 | eHealth Week | Malta | |
| 2017May 08-12 | Silicon Valley Tour in Memoriam Henk Slettenhaar | California | |
| 2017 Apr 28 | Annual Conference: Transparency in Health and Health Care: Legal and Ethical Possibilities and Limits |
Cambridge MA | |
| 2017 Apr 24 | GDPR Workshop Series: Health and Well-being Apps – Key Issues for Privacy and Data Protection, 12-14 h | Brussels | |
| 2017 Apr 22 | Science March, Earth Day, as in Stuttgart or Tuebingen | Worldwide | |
| 2017Mar 31 | The Power Switch; How Power is Changing in a Networked World featuring Ezrachi, Deibert, Hildebrandt, Guerses, Ross Anderson, inter alia | Cambridge, UK | |
| 2017Mar 30-31 | The First European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance – Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies (GIG-ARTS) “Global Internet Governance as a Diplomacy Issue” with Joe Cannataci, Jovan Kurbalija and Chris Marsden inter alia | Paris | |
| 2017Mar 29-31 | Rightscon, speakers’ list | Brussels | |
| 2017Mar 25-26 | LibrePlanet 2017: GNU/Linux Free Software | Boston | |
| 2017Mar 22 | Science preparatory meeting to G-20 in July | Halle, Germany | |
| 2017Feb. 10 | PORTAL Ethics and Health Policy Seminar: Returning Results to Research Participants | Cambridge MA | |
| 2017 Jan 25-27 | Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) 2017 “The Age of Intelligent Machines” | Brussels | |
| 2017 Jan 24 | Privacy Camp | Brussels | |
| 2016Dec. 09 | Paying Research Participants: Ethical and Regulatory Parameters | Cambridge MA | |
| 2016Dec 05-08 | European Summit on Digital Innovation for Active and Healthy Ageing, in particular DSM – The Free Flow of Health and Well-being Data held by DSM Directorates | Brussels | |
| 2016Dec. 05 | Towards a fair sharing economy: The role and place of cooperative platforms, programme in PDF (see also 2016 Nov. 15) | Brussels | |
| 2016Nov 30-Dec 01 | European Workshop on Trust & Identity (EWTI) 2016 | Vienna, Austria | |
| 2016Nov 30 | Next Generation Internet workshop based on survey running until 2017 Jan 09 | Brussels | |
| 2016 Nov 21-22 | World of Health IT (WoHIT) Conference & Exhibition including first-ever Genomics Summit of HIMSS Europe
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Barcelona | |
| 2016 Nov 17 | Digital Trade, an issue tackled in a recent study by K. Irion, S. Yakovleva and M. Bartl, “Trade and Privacy: Complicated Bedfellows? How to achieve data protection-proof free trade agreements“ (PDF) presented at event on Oct. 12 | Brussels | |
| 2016 Nov 16-17 | Nationale IT-Gipfel 2016 „Lernen und Handeln in der digitalen Welt“ (National IT Summit 2016 “Learning and Doing in the Digital World”); Deutsche Welle the day after: “Merkel calls for loosening of ‘restrictive’ German data protection laws … a major shift” | Saarbruecken, Germany | |
| 2016 Nov 15-17 | European Commons Assembly (see also 2016Dec. 05) | Brussels | |
| 2016 Nov 12-14 | OpenCon 2016 platform for the next generation to learn about Open Access, Open Education and Open Data | Washington DC with satellite events hosted around the world | |
| 2016 Oct 20 | re:publica | Dublin, Ireland | |
| 2016 Oct 14-17 | Freedom not fear | Brussels | |
| 2016 Oct 12 | “Trade and Privacy: Complicated Bedfellows? How to achieve data protection-proof free trade agreements” with MEP Viviane Reding and Albrecht, PDF | Brussels | |
| 2016 Oct 05-08 | Internet Rules! 17th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, AoIR 2016, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin | |
| 2016 Oct 03-08 | Amsterdam e-Week (events in Dutch/English) | Amsterdam | |
| 2016 Oct 01 | October is CyberSecurity Month with events listing | Europe | |
| 2016 Sep 29 | Personal Information Economy, featuring Sandy Pentland and Doc Searls | London | |
| 2016 Sep 22-23 | Free and Safe in Cyberspace, 2nd EU Edition 2016, with Bart Preneel, Christopher Soghoian | Brussels | |
| 2016 Sep 21 | Intercommunity | virtually everywhere | |
| 2016 Sep 08 | Merging of man and machine: questions of ethics in dealing with emerging technology | Brussels (+videostream) | |
| 2016 Sep 07-09 | Annual Privacy Forum 2016 (alternate site) bringing research and policy together, featuring Diego Naranjo, EDRi, ENISA, followed by IPEN workshop in 9th | Frankfurt / Main | |
| 2016 Sep 06-08 | ChipMe workshop on emerging ethical, legal and social responses to current developments in genomics within Europe and beyond, featuring MIDATA.coop | Leuven, Belgium | |
| 2016 Sep 06 | Tagung Stiftung Datenschutz und DIHK zur DSGVO from 12:45 til 16:45, Haus der Deutschen Wirtschaft, Breite Str. 29 | Berlin | |
| 2016 Sep 03-10 | Summer School: Good Governance and its Application to Modern Technology Policies | Ticino, Switzerland | |
| 2016 Sep 02-04 | MetaRheinMainChaosDays (MRMCD), “an annual IT conference of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) with a slight focus on IT security” | Darmstadt | |
| 2016 Sep 02-04 | Free Software Foundation Europe Summit | Berlin | |
| 2016 Aug 31-Sep 02 | MyData 2016 Advancing Human-centric Personal Data featuring MIDATA.COOP | Helsinki | |
| 2016 Aug 28-Sep 02 | Health – Exploring Complexity: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach including GMDS Tutorial on new Data Protection Regulation: EU Datenschutzgrundverordnung: Konsequenzen für das deutsche Gesundheitswesen, Aug. 31 session by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger on Big Data, Aug. 30 session on Health Record Banking and Aug. 29 session on Data curation, data security and data protection | Munich | |
| 2016Aug 09-14 | World Social Forum, with social networking from everywhere | Montreal | |
| 2016 Jul 21 | Free and Safe in Cyberspace, 1st NorthAm Edition, with Joe Cannataci, Max Schrems – on invitation only | New York | |
| 2016 Jul 19-22 | PETS 2016 The 16th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium | Darmstadt, Germany | |
| 2016 Jul 10-15 | 1st Interdisciplinary Summer School on Privacy (ISP 2016) featuring inter alia Helen Nissenbaum | Nijmegen, NL | |
| 2016 Jul __ | 25th anniversary of pretty good privacy (PGP) as being planned here | California |
For earlier events see this page.
For more privacy events see this page.
For more Brussels events see this page.
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