Back to the Future with Icons and Images: “Low-Tech” to Communicate and Protect Privacy and Data

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityBack to the Future with Icons and Images: “Low-Tech” to Communicate and Protect Privacy and DataBotes Wilhelmina Maria, Arianna RossiAbstract:Since the myth of the tower of Babel, humankind has been concerned with the impossibility of communicating across cultures, societies, and literacy levels. Although multilingualism can solve some of these challenges, … Continued

Soumia Zohra El Mestari

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecuritySoumia Zohra El MestariDoctoral Researchersoumia.elmestari@uni.lu Soumia El Mestari received her Master’s degree from the Ecole Supérieure d'informatique (Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria), in 2020. Her research interests are in Machine Learning, Trust and Transparency in data-driven tools and Privacy-Preserving machine learning. Soumia joined the Sociotechnical Cybersecurity Interdisciplinary research group, IRiSC, headed by … Continued

Our paper published in the journal Machine Learning Knowledge Extraction, was selected as the cover page of Volume 4, Issue 1.

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An Analysis of Cholesteric Spherical Reflector Identifiers for Object Authenticity Verification Our paper entitled “An Analysis of Cholesteric Spherical Reflector Identifiers for Object Authenticity Verification”, published in the journal Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction, was selected as the cover page of Volume 4, Issue 1. This research has the potential to change how we authenticate … Continued

An Analysis of Cholesteric Spherical Reflector Identifiers for Object Authenticity Verification

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityAn Analysis of Cholesteric Spherical Reflector Identifiers for Object Authenticity VerificationMónica P. Arenas , Hüseyin Demirci and Gabriele Lenzini Abstract:Arrays of Cholesteric Spherical Reflectors (CSRs), microscopic cholesteric liquid crystals in a spherical shape, have been argued to become a game-changing technology in anti-counterfeiting. Used to build identifiable tags or coating, … Continued

Emre KOCYIGIT

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityEmre KOCYIGITDoctoral Researcheremre.kocyigit@uni.lu Emre KOCYIGIT is currently pursuing a PhD in “Detection of Deceptive Online Patterns” as a member of the DECEPTICON project, funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR). He particularly studies on cyber security problems using data science techniques and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms such as Machine … Continued

Proactive Legal Design for Health Data Sharing based on Smart Contracts

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityProactive Legal Design for Health Data Sharing based on Smart ContractsArianna Rossi, Helena Haapio, Abstract:The technology of smart contracts neglects the fact that people use contracts as social resources to manage their relations. Th e inflexibility that they introduce, by design, might short-circuit a number of social uses to which … Continued

Cookie Banners, What’s the Purpose? Analyzing Cookie Banner Text Through a Legal Lens

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityCookie Banners, What’s the Purpose? Analyzing Cookie Banner Text Through a Legal LensCristiana Santos , Arianna Rossi, Lorena Sanchez Chamorro, Kerstin Bongard, Ruba Abu-SalmaAbstract:A cookie banner pops up when a user visits a website for the first time, requesting consent to the use of cookies and other trackers for a … Continued

Training Data Scientists in Legal Practice

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Report from the SnT Annual Report: Link   In 2017, it was proposed by The Economist that the world’s most valuable resource was no longer oil, but data. In fact, as early as 2006, this shift in our technological activity was hypothesised, including the value that mining and analysing data would hold for us in … Continued

International Women’s Day: Q&A with Arianna Rossi

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Report of the University of Luxembourg on the International Women’s Day: Link International Women’s Day is a global awareness day for celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. Having been marked in our calendars for over a century now – it began in 1911 – the theme of this year’s event is … Continued

Saddam Hossain

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecuritySaddam HossainMaster Thesis Studentsaddam.hossain.001@student.uni.lu Thesis Title: A proof-of-concept authentication service for cholesteric spherical reflectors Name of supervisor: Prof. Gabriele Lenzini Name of reviewer:  Prof. Jan Lagerwall Name of advisor: Monica Patricia ARENAS CORREA Campus Office MNO, E02 0215-110 Maison du Nombre 6, Avenue de la Fonte L-4364 Esch-sur-Alzette Get in … Continued