On Wednesday, July 17th, Henry Hosseini (Research Assistant at the Chair for Cyber Security) presented his publication on the bilingual longitudinal analysis of English and German privacy statements in relation to the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Protection Act (CCPA/CPRA) at the renowned Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) in Bristol, United Kingdom. This study, conducted in collaboration with the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security and the Stiftung Neuer Verantwortung, demonstrates the global impact of the CCPA/CPRA on corporate websites and privacy policies worldwide, as well as the differences between German and English privacy policies following the enforcement of the GDPR. Additionally, the potential impacts of the Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act (TDDDG) on German privacy policies were highlighted.

Two hours after his conference presentation, Henry Hosseini successfully defended his doctoral thesis on the topic of automated, multilingual analysis of privacy policies.

Additionally, Henry Hosseini and colleagues from the Institute for Internet Security, Radboud University, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and Aware7 GmbH also presented a poster at PETS on the topic of HbbTV, its independent tracking ecosystem from web tracking, and the existing deficits in protecting the privacy of users of this technology, particularly for children's television channels. The paper of this poster is currently in the peer-review process.