Welcome at the Chair of Privacy and Security
We work on all aspects of technical data protection and network and IT security. We are primarily interested in privacy, i.e. the protection of individuals against the misuse of their data.
Over the past decades, digital technologies have developed rapidly. The advent of digital transformation and the interconnectivity of all areas of life opens up a wealth of new possibilities. Autonomous networked vehicles, cloud computing, industry 4.0, virtual reality with haptic feedback, online banking or social networks are just a few keywords that are changing the way and quality of life. However, this development also brings with it a number of challenges that people often do not immediately grasp, but which may well conflict with their interests. Our research group is engaged in the development and analysis of security concepts that protect from all types of potential attackers on such systems. We are also interested in the development of technologies that promote data protection in order to protect privacy in the digital world. Finally, we develop protocols and algorithms to secure the underlying infrastructures for communication and computation.
We are part of the KASTEL Security Research Labs, as well as the excellence cluster CeTI, the Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop.
It is a great pleasure to announce that Shlomi Hod – after a PhD at Boston University and conducting research with the Weizenbaum Institute, the IAB, Columbia, and Harvard – has now joined KASTEL and our Privacy and Security group!.
We’re very excited about the shared adventures that lie ahead, and wish a heartfelt welcome!
Our Felix was invited to the podcast Futureproof With Jonathan McCrea
of the Irish radio station Newstalk
! There he talked about sensors in smart cities, privacy culture in Germany, and surveillance via WiFi signals.
The episode (english) is available on the Newstalk webseite and everywhere else where you can find podcasts (including Apple Podcasts and Spotify).
Happy listening!
Our restless researches have published four paper at PETS this year:
In Pantomime: Motion Data Anonymization Using Foundation Motion Models (Simon Hanisch, Julian Todt, Thorsten Strufe) we research how to build realistic anonymizations of humans in motion.
In our SoK: Multi-Perspective-Video-Anonymization (Islam Amar, Omar Moured, Simon Hanisch, Thorsten Strufe) we summarize the state-of-the-art of video anonymizations that work on multiple perspectives.
In "The city isn't uploading me to TikTok": Exploring Privacy Attitudes towards Data Collection in Urban Public Spaces (Julian Todt, Emiram Kablo, Felix Morsbach, Patricia Arias Cabarcos, Thorsten Strufe) we survey other people about their privacy expectations of different sensors (video camera, thermal camera, ...) in smart cities.
In Breaking and (Partially) Fixing Onion Routing with Fragmentation (Daniel Schadt, Christoph Coijanovic, Thorsten Strufe) we look at message fragmentation in mix networks, how it can be used to attack the system, and how this attack can be prevented.
We are looking forward to an interesting conference in Calgary!
We welcome Abhishek Mishra as a new postdoc at our chair!
Abhishek was previously at Inria in France and researches privacy and security in networked and data-driven systems.
